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Events on the 27th of April in history

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27 Apr 2033 Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother to the future emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania.
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27 Apr 0395 Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
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27 Apr 0629 Shahrbaraz is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire.
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27 Apr 0711 Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
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27 Apr 1296 First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
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27 Apr 1509 Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
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27 Apr 1509 Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice
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27 Apr 1518 Treaty of St. Truiden: anti-French Trapdoors / Bourgondisch covenant
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27 Apr 1521 Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
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27 Apr 1522 Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
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27 Apr 1522 Battle at Bicacca Charles I & Pope Adrianus VI beat France
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27 Apr 1526 Mogol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi
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27 Apr 1539 Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
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27 Apr 1565 Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
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27 Apr 1565 1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
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27 Apr 1576 Peace of Beaulieu & Paix de Monsieur
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27 Apr 1578 Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
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27 Apr 1595 The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade by the Ottomans, where today the largest Orthodox church building in the world stands
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27 Apr 1643 Tirso de Molina's "Bellaco Sois, Gomez", premieres in Madrid
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27 Apr 1646 King Charles I flees Oxford
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27 Apr 1650 The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
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27 Apr 1650 Scottish General Montrose defeated
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27 Apr 1662 Netherlands & France sign military covenant
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27 Apr 1667 The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
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27 Apr 1694 Frederik August I "the Strong" becomes Monarch of Saksen
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27 Apr 1746 Battle at Culloden Moor: Duke of Cumberland beats "James VIII & III"
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27 Apr 1749 First performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
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27 Apr 1773 British Parliament passes the Tea Act (eventually leads to Boston Tea Party on December 16)
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27 Apr 1777 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
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27 Apr 1805 First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' Hymn).
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27 Apr 1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
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27 Apr 1810 Beethoven composes Für Elise.
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27 Apr 1813 War of 1812: American troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
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27 Apr 1813 Americans under General Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
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27 Apr 1828 Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park London, opens
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27 Apr 1838 Fire destroys half of Charleston
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27 Apr 1840 Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
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27 Apr 1841 Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D T Suzuki, found the awakening
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27 Apr 1857 Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited
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27 Apr 1859 "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard
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27 Apr 1860 Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry
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27 Apr 1861 American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
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27 Apr 1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US
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27 Apr 1863 Battle of Streight's raid Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff AL
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27 Apr 1865 The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,800, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
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27 Apr 1865 The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
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27 Apr 1865 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" explodes on the Mississippi River
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27 Apr 1865 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
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27 Apr 1867 The opera "Rom
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27 Apr 1870 Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi
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27 Apr 1874 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms
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27 Apr 1877 Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris)
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27 Apr 1877 The opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris France)
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27 Apr 1877 President Rutherford Hayes removes Federal troops from Louisiana, Reconstruction ends
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27 Apr 1881 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
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27 Apr 1890 French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Ouss
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27 Apr 1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
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27 Apr 1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out, Philadelphia Athletics win 6-0
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27 Apr 1903 Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens
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27 Apr 1904 The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
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27 Apr 1905 World Exposition opens in Luik
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27 Apr 1908 4th modern Olympic games open in London
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27 Apr 1909 Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
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27 Apr 1909 Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown
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27 Apr 1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
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27 Apr 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.
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27 Apr 1912 Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in the Netherlands
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27 Apr 1914 Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
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27 Apr 1918 Brooklyn Dodgers get 1st victory after worst major league start (0-9)
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27 Apr 1920 Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence
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27 Apr 1921 Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam
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27 Apr 1922 Fritz Langs "Dr Mabuse, der Spieler" premieres in Berlin
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27 Apr 1922 Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR
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27 Apr 1923 Mussolini government italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige
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27 Apr 1924 Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1
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27 Apr 1926 In the Giants' 9-8 win over Phillies, Mel Ott, 17, 1st appearance
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27 Apr 1927 Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
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27 Apr 1931 100
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27 Apr 1933 Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Washington DC
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27 Apr 1935 Yanks pull a 1st inning triple-play and beat Philadelphia Athletics 9-8
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27 Apr 1935 Brussel's World Expo opens
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27 Apr 1936 The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
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27 Apr 1937 1st US social security payment made
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27 Apr 1937 US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
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27 Apr 1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
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27 Apr 1941 World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation.
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27 Apr 1941 World War II: German troops enter Athens.
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27 Apr 1941 German troops occupy Athens Greece
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27 Apr 1942 Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
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27 Apr 1942 Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars
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27 Apr 1943 Lou Jansen & Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland
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27 Apr 1943 Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London
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27 Apr 1944 Boston Brave Jim Tobin no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0
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27 Apr 1945 World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
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27 Apr 1945 World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
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27 Apr 1945 2nd Republic of Austria forms
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27 Apr 1945 Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner
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27 Apr 1945 US 5th army enters Genua
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27 Apr 1946 1st radar installation aboard a commercial ship installed
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27 Apr 1947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through the US
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27 Apr 1948 Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River
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27 Apr 1950 "Tickets, Please" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 245 performances
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27 Apr 1950 Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
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27 Apr 1950 South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races
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27 Apr 1951 Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia
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27 Apr 1952 "4 Saints in 3 Acts" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 15 performances
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27 Apr 1953 Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins term "Pencil neck geek"
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27 Apr 1953 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
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27 Apr 1953 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP
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27 Apr 1956 Heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
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27 Apr 1956 Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election
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27 Apr 1959 "Today" show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France)
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27 Apr 1959 Liu Sjau-chi elected President of China PR
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27 Apr 1959 "Today" show goes abroad for the 1st time (Paris France)
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27 Apr 1959 Liu Sjau-chi elected President of People's Rebublic of China
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27 Apr 1960 Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm
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27 Apr 1960 Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
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27 Apr 1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
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27 Apr 1960 France grants Togo independence (National Day)
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27 Apr 1960 South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns
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27 Apr 1961 NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio
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27 Apr 1961 Sierra Leone declares independence from the UK
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27 Apr 1961 Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
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27 Apr 1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays
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27 Apr 1962 Arnold Wesker's "Chips with Everything", premieres in London
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27 Apr 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
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27 Apr 1963 "Jopie" Pengel forms government in Suriname
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27 Apr 1963 Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
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27 Apr 1964 John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in the US
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27 Apr 1965 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper
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27 Apr 1965 "I'm Solomon" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 7 performances
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27 Apr 1966 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd cello concert
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27 Apr 1967 Rocky Marciano retires as undefeated boxing champ
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27 Apr 1967 Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
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27 Apr 1967 Expo '67 opens in Montr
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27 Apr 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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27 Apr 1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" closes at Alvin NYC after 28 performances
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27 Apr 1968 Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in the Netherlands
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27 Apr 1968 Baltimore Oriole Tom Phoebus no-hits Boston, 6-0
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27 Apr 1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Jerry Quarry for heavyweight boxing title
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27 Apr 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
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27 Apr 1971 Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games & departs for Denmark
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27 Apr 1972 New York City Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported
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27 Apr 1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth
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27 Apr 1973 Kansas City Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
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27 Apr 1974 Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon
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27 Apr 1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
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27 Apr 1975 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
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27 Apr 1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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27 Apr 1976 "So Long 174th St" opens at Harkness Theater NYC for 16 performances
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27 Apr 1976 Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi
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27 Apr 1977 HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in the Netherlands
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27 Apr 1977 Twenty-eight people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
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27 Apr 1977 Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa
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27 Apr 1978 Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, W Virginia, kills 51
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27 Apr 1978 Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
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27 Apr 1978 14th Mayor's Trophy Game, New York Yankees beat New York Mets 4-3 in 11
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27 Apr 1978 Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, Charleston WV, kills 51
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27 Apr 1978 Afgh
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27 Apr 1979 George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone"
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27 Apr 1980 Barbara Barrow wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
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27 Apr 1981 Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
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27 Apr 1981 1st female soccer official is hired by the NASL
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27 Apr 1981 Beatle Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach [Goldbach]
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27 Apr 1982 Nordiques 1-Isles 4 - Semifinals - Isles hold 1-0 lead
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27 Apr 1982 Qu
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27 Apr 1982 Trial of John W Hinckley Jr, attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan, begins
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27 Apr 1983 Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3509), passing Walter Johnson
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27 Apr 1984 Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake, Montana
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27 Apr 1984 Cleveland Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings
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27 Apr 1986 "Sweet Charity" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 368 performances
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27 Apr 1986 Pat Bradley wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
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27 Apr 1986 The city of Pripyat as well as the surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.
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27 Apr 1986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
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27 Apr 1987 The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
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27 Apr 1987 US Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WWII
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27 Apr 1989 "Starmites" opens at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC for 60 performances
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27 Apr 1989 The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
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27 Apr 1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
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27 Apr 1989 Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
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27 Apr 1989 Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500
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27 Apr 1990 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Michigan)
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27 Apr 1990 Los Angeles Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery
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27 Apr 1990 Villanova's women set a 6,000 meter relay world record of 17:18:10
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27 Apr 1991 "Lucifer's Child" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 28 performances
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27 Apr 1991 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio
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27 Apr 1992 "Small Family Business" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 48 performances
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27 Apr 1992 The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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27 Apr 1992 Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
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27 Apr 1992 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
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27 Apr 1992 New York Jets finish perfect 5-0 pre-season for 1st time
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27 Apr 1992 New York Mets trade David Cone to Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Kent
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27 Apr 1993 All members 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.
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27 Apr 1993 Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76
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27 Apr 1994 "Inspector Calls" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 454 performances
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27 Apr 1994 South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
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27 Apr 1994 29.0
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27 Apr 1994 7th longest NHL game New Jersey Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 minutes 43 seconds)
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27 Apr 1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km)
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27 Apr 1994 Minnesota Twins righty Scott Erickson no-hits Brewers 6-0
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27 Apr 1994 President Richard Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California
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27 Apr 1995 "Indiscretions" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 performances
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27 Apr 1995 Coors Field in Colorado opens - Denver Rockies beats Mets 11-9 in 14
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27 Apr 1996 The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
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27 Apr 1996 Brunswick World Tournament of Champions won by Dave D'Entremont
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27 Apr 1997 "Little Foxes, " opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 56 performances
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27 Apr 1997 "Stanley, " closes at Circle in the Square Theater, New York City
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27 Apr 1997 "Stanley" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC
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27 Apr 1997 Frank Nobilo wins Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic at Forest Oaks
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27 Apr 1997 Las Vegas Senior Golf Classic by TruGreen-ChemLawn
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27 Apr 1997 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Championship
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27 Apr 2002 The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
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27 Apr 2005 The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
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27 Apr 2006 Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.
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27 Apr 2007 Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
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27 Apr 2011 The April 25–28 tornado 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 hundreds more.
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27 Apr 2012 At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
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27 Apr 2014 A tornado outbreak over much of the eastern United States kills more than 45 people.
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27 Apr 2014 Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints in the first papal canonization since 1954.
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27 Apr 4977 -BC- Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe
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