About April 27

April 27, 2020 is the 118th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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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 291 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On April 27

  • 1509 –
    Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
  • 1521 –
    Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
  • 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.
  • 1773 –
    The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
  • 1861 –
    President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1953 –
    Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.
  • 1959 –
    The last Canadian missionary leaves the People’s Republic of China.
  • 1960 –
    Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2007 –
    Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.

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