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
- 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.
- 1565 –Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
- 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.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
- 1865 –The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state’s land grant institution.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: German troops enter Athens.
- 1945 –World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
- 1959 –The last Canadian missionary leaves the People’s Republic of China.
- 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.
- 1977 –28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
- 1978 –Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
- 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.
- 1996 –The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
- 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.
- 2011 –The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history.
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