About April 27
April 27, 2025 is the 117th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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.
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What Happened On April 27
- 1296 –Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
- 1509 –Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
- 1521 –Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
- 1667 –The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
- 1749 –First performance of Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
- 1805 –First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The “shores of Tripoli” part of the Marines’ hymn).
- 1810 –Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
- 1813 –War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
- 1865 –The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state’s land grant institution.
- 1914 –Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1927 –Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
- 1941 –World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as “National Democrats”) and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.
- 1945 –World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
- 1945 –World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
- 1950 –Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
- 1960 –Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
- 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.
- 1974 –10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
- 1996 –The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
- 2002 –The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
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