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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