About April 27
April 27, 2024 is the 118th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 277 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 27
- 1509 –Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
- 1539 –Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
- 1650 –The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
- 1749 –First performance of Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
- 1773 –The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
- 1810 –Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
- 1865 –The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state’s land grant institution.
- 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.
- 1950 –Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
- 1953 –Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.
- 1960 –Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
- 1961 –Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
- 1967 –Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
- 1977 –28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
- 1978 –Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
- 1981 –Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
- 1987 –The U.S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
- 1992 –The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
- 1996 –The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
- 2006 –Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
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