27 December

The 27t o December is the 361st day o the year (362nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 4 days bidin.

 Events 
 537 - Inauguration o the Hagia Sophia in present-day Istanbul, as a kirk.
 1831 - The ship Beagle sets sail frae Ingland wi Charles Darwin on board.
 1911 - Jana Gana Mana, the naitional anthem o Indie, is sang for the first time, at the Calcutta session o the Indian Naitional Congress.
 1936 - Francisco Franco's forces bomb Santander in the Spainyie Civil War.
 1939 - 30,000 fowk are kilt bi a yirdquauk in Erzincan, Turkey.
 1945 - Division o Korea.
 1949 - The Netherlands recognise the unthirldom o Indonesie.
 1959 - Voters in Wallis an Futuna choose the status o a French owerseas territory.
 1975 - A minin splosion in Jharkhand, Indie, causes a flood, drownin 372 miners.
 1978 - Spain becomes a democracy.
 1979 - The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
 2002 - Twa truck bombs kill 72 fowk at the pro-Moscow headquarters o the Chechnie govrenment in Grozny. 
 2007 - Pakistani politeecian Benazir Bhutto is assassinatit in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi.
 2007 - Riots erupt efter Mwai Kibaki is declarit the winner o the disputit Preses election in Kenyae.
 2008 - Israel launches Operation Cast Lead against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
 2019 - COVID-19 pandemic: A patient bein treatit in soothren Fraunce on this date is, in Mey 2020, revealed tae hae testit positive for COVID-19; this is afore the ootbrak in Wuhan is reportit tae the Warld Heal Organization.

 Births 
 1571 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer an scientist (d. 1630)
 1794 - Alexander Gordon Laing, Scots splorer (d. 1826)
 1822 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (d. 1895)
 1823 - Mackenzie Bowell, Prime meenister o Canadae (d. 1917)
 1896 - Carl Zuckmayer, German writer (d. 1977)
 1901 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (d. 1992)
 1925 - Michel Piccoli, French actor (d. 2020)
 1931 - John Charles, Welsh fitbawer (d. 2004)
 1934 - Larisa Latynina, Roushie gymnast
 1948 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor
 1949 - Klaus Fischer, German fitbawer
 1951 - Ernesto Zedillo, umwhile Preses o Mexico
 1958 - Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, umwhile Prime meenister o Pakistan
 1961 - Guido Westerwelle, German politeecian (d. 2016)
 1965 - Salman Khan, Indie actor
 1969 - Linda Petursdottir, Icelandic beauty queen an businesswoman
 1974 - Masi Oka, Japanese-American actor
 1981 - Emilie de Ravin, Australie actress
 1984 - Gilles Simon, French tennis player
 1986 - Torah Bright, Australie snawbuirder
 1988 - Hayley Williams, American sangster (Paramore)
 1990 - Milos Raonic, Canadian tennis player
 1991 - Danny Wilson, Scots fitbawer
 1997 - Ana Konjuh, Croatie tennis player

 Daiths 
 1663 - Christine o Fraunce, Dochter o Fraunce (b. 1606)
 1782 - Henry Home, Laird Kames, Scots advocate, judge, philosopher an writer (b. 1696)
 1800 - Hugh Blair, Scots meenister o releegion, author an rhetorician (b. 1718)
 1923 - Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, French airchitect an engineer (b. 1832)
 1925 - Sergei Yesenin, Roushie poet (b. 1895)
 1972 - Lester B. Pearson, Prime meenister o Canadae (b. 1897)
 1979 - Hafizullah Amin, Afghan politeecian (b. 1929)
 2007 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime meenister o Pakistan (b. 1953)
 2016 - Carrie Fisher, American actress an writer (b. 1956)

 Halidays 
 Boxin Day Haliday (if 26 December is a Sunday)
 Constitution Day (North Korea)
 St. Stephen's Day (Eastren Orthodox Kirk, hailday in Romanie)

Category:Days o the year