27 Aprile

The 27t o Aprile is the 117t day o the year (118t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 248 days ti come.

 Events 
 1296 - Battle o Dunbaur: John Balliol's Scots airmy is defeatit bi an Inglis force. 
 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan is kilt in battle in the Philippines.
 1840 - The Foondation Stane is laid for the Palace o Wastmeenster.
 1865 - The SS Sultana steamboat splodes an sinks on the Mississippi River, killin 1,700 fowk.
 1906 - The State Duma for the Roushie Empire meets for the first time.
 1909 - Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II is overthrown  bi his brither, Mehmed V.
 1927 - The Carabineros de Chile (Chile's naitional polis force an gendarmerie) is foondit.
 1941 - Warld War II: German troops enter Athens.
 1945 - Warld War II: Soviet an American troops link at the River Elbe.
 1950 - The Unitit Kinrick offeecially recognises the state o Israel.
 1960 - Togo gains unthirldom frae Fraunce.
 1961 - Sierra Leone gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
 1992 - The Federal Republic o Yugoslavie is creatit.
 1993 - Members o the Zambie naitional fitbaa team are kilt in a plane crash near Libreville, Gabon.
 1999 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika becomes Preses o Algerie.
 2005 - The Airbus A380 makes its first flicht in Fraunce.
 2009 - The Unitit Kinrick's first cases o swine flu are confirmed in Scotland.
 2011 - A muckle tornado ootbreak occurs in the Sootheastren Unitit States.
 2014 - Pape John XXIII an Pape John Paul II are made saunts.
 2018 - Sooth Korean Preses Moon Jae-in meets wi North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for talks.

 Births 
 1720 - Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke o Gordon, Scots peer (d. 1752)
 1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft, Inglis writer an feminist (d. 1797)
 1791 - Samuel Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
 1820 - Herbert Spencer, Inglis philosopher, biologist, anthropologist an sociologist (d. 1903)
 1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, American general an 18t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1885)
 1865 - Archibald Leitch, Scots airchitect (d. 1939)
 1899 - Adam McLean, Scots fitbawer (d. 1973)
 1910 - Chiang Ching-kuo, Cheenese-Taiwanese politeecian (d. 1988)
 1913 - Luz Long, German lang jumper (d. 1943)
 1920 - Edwin Morgan, Scots Makar (d. 2010)
 1922 - Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)
 1927 - Coretta Scott King, American activist (d. 2006)
 1932 - Casey Kasem, American actor an radio host (d. 2014)
 1955 - Eric Schmidt, American saftware ingineer an businessman
 1959 - Jim Duffy, Scots fitbawer
 1959 - Sheena Easton, Scots sangster
 1963 - Brendan O'Hara, Scots politeecian
 1967 - Keeng Willem-Alexander o the Netherlands
 1986 - Dinara Safina, Roushie tennis player
 1988 - Lizzo, American sangster
 1995 - Nick Kyrgios, Australie tennis player

 Daiths 
 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese splorer (b. 1480)
 1605 - Pape Leo XI (b. 1535)
 1782 - John Campbell, 4t Yerl o Loudoun, Scots nobleman an airmy afficer (b. 1705)
 1824 - William Kerr, 6t Marquess o Lowden, Scots sodger, laundawner an peer (b. 1763)
 1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer an philosopher (b. 1803)
 1915 - Alexander Scriabin, Roushie componer (b. 1872)
 1937 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer an politeecian (b. 1891)
 1938 - Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (b. 1859)
 1972 - Kwame Nkrumah, 1st Preses o Ghana (b. 1909)
 2007 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Roushie cellist an conductor (b. 1927)

 Halidays 
 Independence Day (Togo, Sierra Leone)
 Freedom Day (Sooth Africae)
 Koningsdag, birthday o Willem-Alexander o the Netherlands
 Warld Tapir Day

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Category:Days o the year