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

  • 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.
  • 1539
    Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
  • 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.
  • 1749
    First performance of Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1992
    Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
  • 1992
    The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
  • 2006
    Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
  • 2007
    Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.

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