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
- 1650 –The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
- 1667 –The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
- 1813 –War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
- 1865 –The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state’s land grant institution.
- 1909 –Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
- 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.
- 1914 –Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 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.
- 1950 –Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
- 1953 –Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.
- 1960 –Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
- 1974 –10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
- 1981 –Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
- 1992 –Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
- 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.
- 1994 –South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
- 1996 –The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
- 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.
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