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What Happened on April 27th This Day in History

Year	Name
2018	The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict.
2012	At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
2011	The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
2007	Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
2007	Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
2006	Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.
2005	Airbus A380 aircraft had its maiden test flight.
1994	South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
1993	Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
1992	The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
1992	Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
1992	The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1989	The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1987	The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
1986	The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.
1981	Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1978	John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
1978	The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.[6]
1978	Willow Island disaster: In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia.
1976	Thirty-seven people are killed when American Airlines Flight 625 crashes at Cyril E. King Airport in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
1967	Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
1953	Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
1945	World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photograph is taken.
1945	World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
1941	World War II: German troops enter Athens.
1936	The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1927	Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
1911	Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
1909	Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
1906	The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
1861	American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1813	War of 1812: American troops capture York, the capital of Upper Canada, in the Battle of York.
1805	First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' Hymn).
1667	Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register.
1650	The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
1595	The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site of the incineration is now the location of the Church of Saint Sava, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world
1565	Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1539	Official founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1521	Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapulapu.
1509	Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
1296	First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
711	Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
395	Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
247	Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ludi saeculares.

Famous People Born on April 27

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Year	Name
1932	Pik Botha, South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 8th South African Ambassador to the United States (d. 2018)
1932	Derek Minter, English motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
1982	François Parisien, Canadian cyclist
1988	Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player
1820	Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1903)
1917	Roman Matsov, Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor (d. 2001)
1931	Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist and educator (d. 2021)
1922	Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)
1976	Faisal Saif, Indian director, screenwriter, and critic
1987	Wang Feifei, Chinese singer and actress

Famous People Deaths On April 27

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 27. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1977	Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1915)
2005	Red Horner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1909)
1999	Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1922)
1970	Arthur Shields, Irish rebel and actor (b. 1896)
1813	Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (b. 1779)
1893	John Ballance, Irish-born New Zealand journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1839)
1998	John Bassett, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1915)
630	Ardashir III of Persia (b. 621)
1882	Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (b. 1803)
1896	Henry Parkes, English-Australian businessman and politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1815)