SomeFacts | December 27

On this day - December 27

537 — The second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is consecrated.

1512 — The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the ...

1521 — The Zwickau prophets arrive in Wittenberg, disturbing the ...

1655 — Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra ...

1657 — The Flushing Remonstrance articulates for the first time in ...

1703 — Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which allows ...

1814 — War of 1812: The destruction of the schooner USS Carolina ...

1831 — Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, ...

1836 — The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, ...

1845 — Having coined the phrase "manifest destiny" the ...

1845 — Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by ...

1911 — "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is ...

1918 — Ukrainian War of Independence: The Revolutionary Insurgent ...

1918 — The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.

1922 — Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first ...

1927 — Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered ...

1929 — Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the ...

1932 — Radio City Music Hall, "Showplace of the Nation", ...

1935 — Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the ...

1939 — Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet attack in the Battle of ...

1939 — The 7.8 Mw Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a ...

1945 — The International Monetary Fund is created with the signing of ...

1949 — Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially ...

1966 — The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the ...

1968 — North Central Airlines Flight 458 crashes at O'Hare ...

1968 — Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ...

1978 — Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist ...

1983 — Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's ...

1985 — Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the ...

1989 — The Romanian Revolution concludes, as the last minor street ...

1991 — Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751 crashes in Gottröra in ...

1996 — Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Airfield which ...

1997 — Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in ...

1999 — Burger King and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ...

2002 — Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow ...

2004 — Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 ...

2007 — Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared ...

2007 — Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated ...

2008 — Operation Cast Lead: Israel launches three-week operation on ...

2009 — Iranian election protests: On the Day of Ashura in Tehran, ...

2019 — Bek Air Flight 2100 crashes during takeoff from Almaty ...

2025 — An estimated €30 million were stolen from a Sparkasse bank in ...