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This day in history: 27 April

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320 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 27 April.
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2026: A train crash kills at least 15 people and injures 84 others near Jakarta, Indonesia.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast days: April 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast days: Assicus

Christian feast days: Blessed María Antonia Bandrés Elósegui

Christian feast days: Blessed Osanna of Cattaro

Christian feast days: Floribert of Liège

Christian feast days: John of Constantinople

Christian feast days: Liberalis of Treviso

Christian feast days: Origen Adamantius

Christian feast days: Pedro Armengol

Christian feast days: Pollio

Christian feast days: Virgin of Montserrat, co-patroness of Catalonia

Christian feast days: Zita

Events

2026A train crash kills at least 15 people and injures 84 others near Jakarta, Indonesia.

2018The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict.

2012At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.

2011The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring

2007Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.

2007Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.

2006Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.

2005Airbus A380 aircraft has its maiden test flight.

1994South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.This marked the end of Apartheid.

1993Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.

1992Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.

1992The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.

1992The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

1989The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

1987The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as

1986The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to the Chernobyl disaster.

1978John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

1978The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

1978Willow Island disaster: In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia.

1976Thirty-seven people are killed when American Airlines Flight 625 crashes at Cyril E. King Airport in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

1974One hundred nine people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport.

1967Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.

1953Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

1945World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.

1945World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photograph is taken.

1941World War II: German troops enter Athens.

1936The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.

1927Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.

1911The Second Canton Uprising takes place in Guangzhou, Qing China, but is suppressed.

1909Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.

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

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

1813War of 1812: American troops capture York, the capital of Upper Canada, in the Battle of York.

1805First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" in the Marines' Hymn).

1667Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register.

1650The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.

1595The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site of the incineration is now the location of the Church of Saint Sava, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world

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

1539Official founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.

1522A Spanish-Imperial army defeats French-Venetian army in the battle of Bicocca. The battle marks the end of dominance of Swiss mercenaries on the battlefield and is one of the first where firearms play a decisive role.

Born on this day

2005Mathys Tel, French footballer

2004Arch Manning, American football player

2003Xavier Worthy, American football player

2002Anthony Elanga, Swedish footballer

1999Peter Hola, Australian rugby league player

1998Cristian Romero, Argentine footballer

1997Jesse Ramien, Australian rugby league player

1995Nick Kyrgios, Australian tennis player

1994Corey Seager, American baseball player

1992Keenan Allen, American football player

1991Lara Gut, Swiss skier

1990Austin Dillon, American race car driver

1989Lars Bender, German footballer

1989Sven Bender, German footballer

1988Lizzo, American singer and rapper

1988Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player

1987Taylor Chorney, American ice hockey player

1987Wang Feifei, Chinese singer and actress

1987William Moseley, English actor

1986Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player

1986Jenna Coleman, English actress

1985Meselech Melkamu, Ethiopian runner

1984Daniel Holdsworth, Australian rugby league player

1984Patrick Stump, American musician, singer, and songwriter

1984Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player

1983Ari Graynor, American actress and producer

1980Christian Lara, Ecuadorian footballer

1980Sybille Bammer, Austrian tennis player

1979Vladimir Kozlov, Ukrainian actor and wrestler

1976Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter and cellist

1976Sally Hawkins, English actress

1976Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer

1975Chris Carpenter, American baseball player

1975Kazuyoshi Funaki, Japanese ski jumper

1975Pedro Feliz, Dominican baseball player

1974Frank Catalanotto, American baseball player

1973Sébastien Lareau, Canadian tennis player

1973Sharlee D'Angelo, Swedish bass player and songwriter

1972Nigel Barker, English photographer and author

1969Cory Booker, African-American lawyer and politician

Died on this day

2025Jiggly Caliente, Filipino-American drag performer, singer and actress (born 1980)

2024C. J. Sansom, British author (born 1952)

2023Jerry Springer, American politician and actor (born 1944)

2022Liao Guoxun, Chinese politician (born 1963)

2021Manoj Das, Indian writer (born 1934)

2017Sadanoyama Shinmatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1938)

2017Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician (born 1946)

2015Alexander Rich, American biologist, biophysicist, and academic (born 1924)

2015Gene Fullmer, American boxer (born 1931)

2015Verne Gagne, American football player, wrestler, and trainer (born 1926)

2014Daniel Colchico, American football player and coach (born 1935)

2014Harry Firth, Australian race car driver and manager (born 1918)

2014Vujadin Boškov, Serbian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1931)

2014Yigal Arnon, Israeli lawyer (born 1929)

2013Aída Bortnik, Argentinian screenwriter (born 1938)

2013Aloysius Jin Luxian, Chinese bishop (born 1916)

2013Antonio Díaz Jurado, Spanish footballer (born 1969)

2013Jérôme Louis Heldring, Dutch journalist and author (born 1917)

2013Lorraine Copeland, Scottish archaeologist (born 1921)

2013Mutula Kilonzo, Kenyan lawyer and politician, Kenyan Minister of Justice (born 1948)

2012Bill Skowron, American baseball player (born 1930)

2012Daniel E. Boatwright, American soldier and politician (born 1930)

2011Marian Mercer, American actress and singer (born 1935)

2009Feroz Khan (actor), Indian Actor, Film Director & Producer (born 1939)

2009Frankie Manning, American dancer and choreographer (born 1914)

2009Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress (born 1983)

2007Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (born 1927)

2006Julia Thorne, American author (born 1944)

2005Red Horner, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1909)

2002George Alec Effinger, American author (born 1947)

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“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what is left and live it properly.”

Marcus Aurelius

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