Notable Historical Events on April 27th
April 27th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1124 |
David I becomes King of Scots. |
1296 |
Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England. |
1509 |
Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice |
1518 |
Treaty of St Truiden: anti-French Trapdoors/Bourgondisch covenant |
1522 |
Battle at Bicacca: Charles I & Pope Adrianus VI beat France |
1526 |
Mogol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi |
1539 |
Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar. |
1565 |
1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms |
1576 |
Peace of Beaulieu & Paix de Monsieur |
1578 |
Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favorites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise. |
1643 |
Tirso de Molina's "Bellaco Sois, Gomez," premieres in Madrid |
1646 |
King Charles I flees Oxford |
1650 |
The Battle of Carbisdale: Royalist army under Marquess of Montrose invades mainland Scotland from Orkney; defeated by a Covenanter army. |
1662 |
Netherlands & France sign military covenant |
1667 |
The blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10. |
1694 |
Frederik August I "the Strong" becomes monarch of Saksen |
1749 |
First performance of Handel's Fireworks Music in Green Park, London. |
1773 |
British Parliament passes Tea Act (Boston won't like this) |
1805 |
US Marines attack shores of Tripoli |
1810 |
Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise. |
1813 |
Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed |
1828 |
Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park London, opens |
1838 |
Fire destroys half of Charleston |
1840 |
Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry. |
1841 |
Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening |
1857 |
Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited |
1859 |
"Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard |
1860 |
Thomas Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry |
1861 |
President A Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus (US Civil War) |
1861 |
West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from Union (US Civil War) |
1863 |
Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL |
1865 |
Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered |
1865 |
Steamboat "SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. Most were paroled Union POWs on their way home. |
1867 |
Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris) |
1870 |
Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi |
1874 |
White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms |
1877 |
Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris) |
1877 |
President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends |
1881 |
Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad |
1890 |
French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan |
1893 |
Richard "King Dick" Seddon succeeds John Balance as premier of New Zealand and leader of Liberal Party |
1897 |
Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated |
1903 |
1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out, Phila A's win 6-0 |
1903 |
Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens |
1904 |
The Australian Labor Party under Chris Watson becomes the first Labour government in the world |
1905 |
World Exposition opens in Luik |
1908 |
4th modern Olympic games opens in London |
1909 |
Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown |
1910 |
Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights |
1910 |
Louis Botha and James Hertzog establish the moderate nationalists South African Party promising equality of Britons and Boers |
1911 |
Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore (for the time being) of the United States Senate. |
1911 |
Indian passive resistance is suspended when Gen. J.C. Smuts enters into negotiations with Mahatma Gandhi. |
1912 |
Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands |
1914 |
Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
1915 |
Counterattack launched by Turkish forces under the command of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk against allied troops |
1916 |
The British renew their assault on the Irish Volunteer position in Mount Street; shelling also sets the buildings on fire |
1918 |
Giants' 9-0 winning start & Dodgers' 0-9 losing streak are stopped |
1920 |
Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence |
1921 |
Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam |
1922 |
Fritz Langs "Dr Mabuse, der Spieler" premieres in Berlin |
1922 |
Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR |
1924 |
Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1 |
1926 |
In the Giants' 9-8 win over Phillies, Mel Ott, 17, 1st appearance |
1927 |
Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created. |
1931 |
100°F (38°C), Pahala, Hawaii (state record) |
1933 |
Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Wash DC |
1933 |
Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham, England, acquired by John Lewis Partnership. The partnership's first shop outside London. |
1935 |
Brussel's World Expo opens |
1935 |
Yanks pull a 1st inning triple-play & beat Phila A's 9-8 |
1937 |
1st US social security payment made |
1940 |
Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
1941 |
German troops occupy Athens Greece |
1942 |
Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars |
1942 |
Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300 |
1943 |
Lou Jansen & Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland |
1943 |
Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London |
1944 |
Boston Brave Jim Tobin no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-0 |
1945 |
2nd Republic of Austria forms |
1945 |
Italian partisans capture Benito Mussolini at Dongo (Lake Como), |
1945 |
US 5th army enters Genua |
1945 |
World War II: The Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication. |
1946 |
1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed |
1947 |
Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through out US |
1948 |
Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River |
1950 |
"Tickets, Please" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 245 performances |
1950 |
South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races |
1951 |
Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia |
1952 |
"4 Saints in 3 Acts" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 15 perfs |
1953 |
1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP |
1953 |
Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins term "Pencil neck geek" |
1956 |
Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election |
1956 |
Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing |
1959 |
"Today" show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France) |
1959 |
Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China People's Republic |
1959 |
The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China. |
1960 |
1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee) |
1960 |
South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns |
1960 |
Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm |
1961 |
NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays |
1961 |
NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio |
1961 |
Sierra Leone declares independence from UK |
1962 |
Arnold Wesker's "Chips with Everything" premieres in London |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1963 |
"Jopie" Pengel forms government in Suriname |
1963 |
Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow |
1964 |
John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in US |
1965 |
"I'm Solomon" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 7 perfs |
1965 |
RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper |
1966 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd cello concert |
1967 |
Expo '67 opens in Montreal |
1967 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1968 |
"Education of Hyman Kaplan" closes at Alvin NYC after 28 perfs |
1968 |
Balt Oriole Tom Phoebus no-hits Boston, 6-0 |
1968 |
Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands |
1968 |
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) hold a rally to protest the banning of a Republican Easter parade |
1969 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational |
1971 |
Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games & departs for Denmark |
1972 |
Apollo 16 returns to Earth |
1972 |
NYC Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported |
1973 |
KC Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0 |
1974 |
Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107 |
1975 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic |
1975 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1976 |
"So Long 174th St" opens at Harkness Theater NYC for 16 performances |
1976 |
Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi |
1977 |
Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa |
1977 |
HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in Netherlands |
1977 |
28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster. |
1978 |
14th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 4-3 in 11 |
1978 |
Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, W Virginia, kills 51 |
1978 |
Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup |
1979 |
George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone" |
1980 |
Barbara Barrow wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
1981 |
1st female soccer official is hired by NASL |
1981 |
Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse. |
1982 |
Nordiques 1-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
1982 |
Trial of John W Hinckley Jr attempted assassin of Reagan, begins |
1983 |
Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson |
1984 |
Cleve Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings |
1984 |
Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana |
1986 |
"Sweet Charity" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 368 performances |
1986 |
Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO |
1986 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
1986 |
Soviet authorities order the evacuation of the city of Pripyat (pop. 50,000) 1 day after the Chernobyl nuclear accident |
1987 |
US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II |
1989 |
"Starmites" opens at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC for 60 performances |
1989 |
Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China |
1989 |
Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500 |
1989 |
Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy |
1990 |
50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich) |
1990 |
Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery |
1990 |
Villanova's women set a 6,000 m relay world record of 17:18:10 |
1991 |
"Lucifer's Child" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 28 perfs |
1991 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio |
1992 |
"Small Family Business" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 48 perfs |
1992 |
NY Mets trade David Cone to Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Kent |
1992 |
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed. |
1992 |
Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history. |
1993 |
Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76 |
1994 |
"Inspector Calls" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 454 performances |
1994 |
29.0°C in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record) |
1994 |
7th longest NHL game: NJ Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 min 43 sec) |
1994 |
Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km) |
1994 |
President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in Calif |
1994 |
Twins righty Scott Erickson no-hits Brewers 6-0 |
1995 |
"Indiscretions" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs |
1995 |
Coors Field in Colo opens - Denver Rockies beats Mets 11-9 in 14 |
1996 |
Brunswick World Tournament of Champions won by Dave D'Entremont |
1997 |
"Little Foxes" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 56 performances |
1997 |
"Stanley" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC |
1997 |
Frank Nobilo wins Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic at Forest Oaks |
1997 |
Las Vegas Senior Golf Classic by TruGreen-ChemLawn |
1997 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Championship |
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. |
2006 |
Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City. |
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. |
2011 |
U.S. President Barack Obama, coerced by incessant false "birther" accusations, publicly releases a copy of his birth certificate |
2012 |
Four explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, kill 27 people |
2013 |
10 people are killed and 25 are injured after a bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan |
2014 |
Ariana Grande's first single from her second debut album, "Problem" featuring Iggy Azalea, is released |
2016 |
North Korea to stage first party congress in nearly 40 years |
2016 |
Apple revenue falls for first time since 2003 |
2016 |
Prince 'did not leave will', sister Tyka Nelson tells court |
2017 |
South Korea, US warn of punishment for North Korea; US stresses sanctions |
2017 |
US commander suggests missile defense in Hawaii amid N. Korea threat |
2017 |
Maria Sharapova beats Roberta Vinci in return from doping ban |
2018 |
Genealogy websites help California police find Golden State Killer suspect |
2018 |
North Korea's Kim Jong Un crosses DMZ line for historic meeting with South Korea |
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