About April 27
April 27, 2021 is the 117th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 280 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.
- 1565 –Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
- 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.
- 1865 –The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
- 1904 –The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
- 1909 –Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
- 1927 –Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
- 1941 –World War II: German troops enter Athens.
- 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: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
- 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.
- 1959 –The last Canadian missionary leaves the People’s Republic of China.
- 1992 –Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
- 1993 –All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
- 1996 –The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
- 2006 –Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
- 2011 –The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history.
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