About April 27
April 27, 2023 is the 117th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 289 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 27
- 395 –Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
- 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.
- 1840 –Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
- 1865 –The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state’s land grant institution.
- 1904 –The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
- 1914 –Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 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: 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.
- 1953 –Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.
- 1977 –28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 –The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
- 2005 –The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
- 2006 –Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
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