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