Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on April 27 throughout history.
The Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula was adopted between the supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, and the president of …
The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Kore
The 2012 Dnipropetrovsk explosions were a series of co-ordinated explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine on 27 April 2012. The bombs went off between 11:50 and 13:00 near four tram …
At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest and costliest tornado outbreak ever recorded, taking place in the Southern, Midwestern, and Northeastern United States from April 25 to 28,…
The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississipp
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the w…
Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy wi
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east…
Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem
One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by …
Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City
The Airbus A380 is a large wide-body airliner, developed and produced by Airbus from 2003 to 2021. It is the world's largest passenger airliner and the only full-length double-dec…
Airbus A380 aircraft has its maiden test flight
General elections were held in South Africa between 26 and 29 April 1994. The elections were the first in South Africa in which citizens of all races could vote, bringing an end t…
South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vot
The Zambia national football team represents Zambia in men's association football and is governed by the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ). During the 1980s, they were known as…
Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Sen
The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, known until 2003 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and commonly referred to as Yugoslavia, was a country in Southeast Europe lo…
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, was a British politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000. A member of the…
Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, spanning eleven time zones and sharing land borders with …
The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the Wo
The April 27 demonstrations were massive student protest marches throughout major cities in China during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. The students were protesting in respon…
The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square prot
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is an executive department of the United States federal government that oversees the domestic enforcement of federal laws and the adm…
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Pripyat, also known as Prypiat, is an abandoned industrial city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus. Named after the nearby river, Pripyat, it was founde…
The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to the Chernobyl disaster
John Daniel Ehrlichman was an American political aide who served as White House Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. Ehrlichm…
John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U
The Saur Revolution, also known as the April Revolution or the April Coup, was a violent coup d'état and uprising staged on 27 and 28 April 1978 by the People's Democratic Party o…
The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Dao
The Willow Island disaster was the collapse of a cooling tower under construction at the Pleasants Power Station at Willow Island, West Virginia, on April 27, 1978. Fifty-one cons…
Willow Island disaster: In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are kil
American Airlines Flight 625, a Boeing 727-100, crashed at St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands on April 27, 1976, while on a domestic scheduled passenger flight originating at T. F. G…
Thirty-seven people are killed when American Airlines Flight 625 crashes at Cyril E
On 27 April 1974, an Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-18, operating a scheduled passenger flight from Leningrad to Krasnodar via Zaporizhzhia, lost control and crashed after attempting to ret…
109 people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport