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.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 296 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 27
- 1578 –Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
- 1667 –The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
- 1805 –First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The “shores of Tripoli” part of the Marines’ hymn).
- 1813 –War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
- 1840 –Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
- 1861 –President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
- 1865 –The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state’s land grant institution.
- 1909 –Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
- 1914 –Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1945 –World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
- 1953 –Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.
- 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
- 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.
- 2005 –The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
- 2007 –Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
- 2011 –The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history.
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