SomeFacts | April 27

On this day - April 27

247 — Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration ...

395 — Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the ...

711 — Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn ...

1296 — First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's ...

1509 — Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under ...

1521 — Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by ...

1539 — Official founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays ...

1565 — Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in ...

1595 — The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the ...

1650 — The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades ...

1667 — Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a ...

1805 — First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack ...

1813 — War of 1812: American troops capture York, the capital of ...

1861 — American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas ...

1906 — The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.

1909 — Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is ...

1911 — The Second Canton Uprising took place in Guangzhou, Qing China ...

1927 — Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and ...

1936 — The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American ...

1941 — World War II: German troops enter Athens.

1945 — World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian ...

1945 — World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland ...

1953 — Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with ...

1967 — Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a ...

1974 — 109 people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport.

1976 — Thirty-seven people are killed when American Airlines Flight ...

1978 — Willow Island disaster: In the deadliest construction accident ...

1978 — The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the ...

1978 — John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard ...

1986 — The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to ...

1987 — The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt ...

1989 — The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding ...

1992 — The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics ...

1992 — Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker ...

1992 — The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and ...

1993 — Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in ...

1994 — South African general election: The first democratic general ...

2005 — Airbus A380 aircraft has its maiden test flight.

2006 — Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One ...

2007 — Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great ...

2007 — Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red ...

2011 — The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern ...

2012 — At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of ...

2018 — The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South ...