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.
- 1539 –Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1914 –Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1936 –The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
- 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.
- 1961 –Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
- 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.
- 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 –Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
- 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.
- 2002 –The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
- 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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