About April 27
April 27, 2024 is the 118th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 277 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 27
- 1565 –Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
- 1667 –The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
- 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.
- 1911 –Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
- 1927 –Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
- 1936 –The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
- 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.
- 1961 –Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
- 1974 –10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
- 1978 –Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
- 1992 –Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
- 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.
- 2011 –The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history.
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