Historical Events In April - 27

1986  Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO on April - 27.   

1987  US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II on April - 27.   

1989  On April - 27 beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China   

1989  Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy on this day in history.   

1990  On April - 27 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich)   

1990  Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery on April - 27.   

1991  On April - 27 ken Curtis, actor (Lost, Freckles, Calif Gold Rush), dies at 74   

1992  On April - 27 olivier Messiaen, French composer, dies at 83   

1993  Hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90 on this day in history.   

1994  Jerome Lejeune, physiologist, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1996  On this day in history joan Sterndale Bennett, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows), dies at 86   

1997  Paul Lambert, actor (Tom-Executive Suite), dies at 73 on this day in history.   

2005  The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse on April - 27.   

2007  Turkish Presidential Election first round, which was later declared invalid by a Turkish court on this day in history.   

2008  Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar killing 138,373 people on April - 27.   

2010  Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk four days after the activation of a €45-billion EU-IMF bailout, triggering the decline of stock markets worldwide and of the Euro's value, and furthering a European sovereign debt crisis on this day in history.   

2011  On April - 27 the deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history.   

2012  Four explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, kill 27 people on April - 27.   

2013  On April - 27 10 people are killed and 25 are injured after a bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan   

2014  On April - 27 ariana Grande 's first single from her second debut album, "Problem" featuring Iggy Azalea, is released   

2018  On this day in history historic Korean summit, the North's Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agree to officially end Korean war and rid peninsula of nuclear weapons   

2018  On April - 27 swedish band ABBA announce they have recorded new songs for the first time since 1982   

2018  German leader Angela Merkel has a 1-day trip to Washington meeting US President Donald Trump on this day in history.   

2018  On April - 27 mass protests across Spain after 5 men convicted of sexual abuse but not rape of teenage girl during Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona   

2018  More than 40 Tuareg killed over two days by suspected jihadists in Menaka region, Mali on April - 27.   

2018  On this day in history kim Jong-un crosses into South Korea to meet with President Moon Jae-in, becoming the first North Korean leader to cross the Demilitarized Zone since its creation in 1953.   

2019  On April - 27 pope Francis donates $500,000 for migrants stranded in Mexico trying to reach the US   

2020  The Pentagon formally releases three videos (previously leaked by Luis Elizondo in 2017) of "unidentified aerial phenomena" encountered by U.S. Navy pilots on April - 27.   

2020  On this day in history [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases passes 3 million worldwide, while the number of confirmed cases in the U.S. passes 1 million.   

2021  Brazil's Senate orders an official inquiry into President Jair Bolsonaro ' and government official's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on this day in history.   

2023  Former Vice President Mike Pence appears before the federal grand jury investigating President Donald Trump ’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss [1] on April - 27.   

2023  On April - 27 james Corden 's final appearance as host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS, after 1,196 episodes   

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1410  John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia was born on April - 27.   

1495  On this day in history birth of suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)   

1623  Johann Adam Reincken, composer was born on April - 27.   

1650  Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714) was born on this day in history.   

1701  Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia was born on this day in history.   

1707  John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens was born on April - 27.   

1718  Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790) was born on April - 27.   

1724  Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer was born on this day in history.   

0630  Death of King Ardashir III of Persia on April - 27.   

1076  On this day in history willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies   

1124  Alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies on this day in history.   

1404  On April - 27 philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62   

1521  On this day in history death of ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50   

1599  Death of Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538) on this day in history.   

1605  Leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69 on April - 27.   

1613  On April - 27 death of robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)