About April 27
April 27, 2022 is the 117th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 270 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 27
- 1296 –Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
- 1521 –Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
- 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.
- 1805 –First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The “shores of Tripoli” part of the Marines’ hymn).
- 1810 –Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
- 1813 –War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
- 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.
- 1950 –Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
- 1959 –The last Canadian missionary leaves the People’s Republic of China.
- 1961 –Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
- 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.
- 1981 –Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
- 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 –Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
- 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.
- 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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