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.
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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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