It happened today, the almanac of the day: the historical and political facts, who was born and who left us. What happened on April 27th
Events of the day
31 – Possible date of Jesus’ death, according to the Synoptic Gospels.
1124 – David I of Scotland is crowned king.
1296 – Battle of Dunbar: Edward I of England defeats the Scots.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan is killed by native Filipinos.
1565 – Philippines: The city of Cebu becomes the first Spanish settlement.
1667 – John Milton, now blind and impoverished, sells the rights to his epic poem Paradise Lost for £10.
1805 – First Barbary War: the United States and the Berber populations attack the Tripolitanian city of Derna (episode evoked in the part of the marines’ anthem entitled Shores of Tripoli).
1840 – London: the foundation stone for the construction of the Palace of Westminster is laid.
1859 – Florence: first independent government of Tuscany after the departure of Grand Duke Leopold II of Lorraine.
1861 – USA: President Abraham Lincoln suspends the right of habeas corpus.
Confederate States of America, United States of America: West Virginia secedes from Virginia.
1862 – American Civil War: Northern ships enter New Orleans, on the mouth of the Mississippi.
1865 – The steamship Sultana, with 2,300 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River: 1,700 deaths, mostly Union veterans of the Andersonville prison.
1901 – Italy, the automobile tour of Italy begins.
1908 – London: inauguration of the IV Olympics.
1909 – Sultan Abdul-Hamid II of Türkiye is ousted; his brother Mehmet V (who died a few months after him) took his place. An ally of the Kaiser, he was appointed Generalfeldmarschall of the Kingdom of Prussia on 28 January 1916 and of the German Empire on 1 February 1916.
1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
Second World War: in Ljubljana now annexed to Italy, the Slovenian People’s Liberation Front was founded on the basis of an agreement between communists, Christian socialists, left-wing liberals and progressive intellectuals.
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Second World War: on the Asiago Plateau, German troops carry out a massacre in retaliation, known as the Treschè Conca massacre
1950 – Gérard Blitz founds the Club Méditerranée association.
1960 – Togo gains independence.
1961 – Sierra Leone gains independence.
1967 – Expo ’67 opens in Montreal (Canada).
1973 – murder of Vittorio Olivares, a simple employee at the offices of the El Al airline in via Bissolati, in Rome, killed by a terrorist linked to Black September.
1981 – Palermo, the first congress of the Italian Socialist Party ends in which the secretary is elected democratically, instead of being designated by the secretariat: Bettino Craxi is reconfirmed with 74% of the votes.
The Xerox PARC introduces the mouse, the computer peripheral that will open the door for graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
1990 – Palestine: to protest against the invasions of Jewish nationalists in sacred places, the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, the churches of Nazareth and Bethlehem and the mosques of the Rock and al-Aqsa are closed to the public for 24 hours.
1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is born, formed by Serbia and Montenegro after the secession of Slovenia and Croatia.
1997 – Andrew Cunanan kills Jeffrey Trail: it will be the first of five crimes including, the following July, the one in which he murdered the designer Gianni Versace.
1999 – Meje massacre: 375 civilians killed by Serbian troops.
2006 – New York, construction begins on the Freedom Tower, the main building of the city’s new World Trade Center.
2014 – Vatican City, Pope Francis, with a solemn ceremony in St. Peter’s Square, declares John Paul II and John XXIII saints, in the presence of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
2018 – North Korean President Kim Jong-un meets with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, becoming the first North Korean head of state to set foot in South Korea in more than 65 years
Parties and anniversaries
International:
World Drawing Day
Nationals:
Chile – Día del carabinero (Carabiniere Day, commemoration of the foundation of this police force in 1927)
Finland – National Veteran’s Day
Netherlands – Koningsdag, King’s Day
Sierra Leone – Independence Day (1961)
Slovenia – Day of the uprising against the occupier
South Africa – Freedom Day
Togo – Independence Day (1970)
Saints today April 27th
Saint Damaris, virgin and martyr
Saint John of Cathars, abbot
San Liberale d’Altino
Saint Lawrence Nguyen Van Huong, priest and martyr
Saint Magaldo of Man, bishop
Saint Peter Armengol, mercedary
Saint Pollione di Cibali, martyr
Saint Simeon I of Jerusalem, bishop and martyr
Saint Theodore of Tabenna, abbot
Saint Zita of Lucca, virgin
Blessed Adelhelm of Le Mans, monk
Blessed Catherine of Montenegro (Hosanna of Kotor), Dominican
Blessed Giacomo Illirico (from Bitetto), Franciscan
Blessed María Antonia Bandrés y Elósegue, religious
Blessed Nicholas Roland, founder
Blessed Humbert of Miribel, bishop
Born today April 27th
1957 – Riccardo Iacona
1942 – Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Deaths today April 27th
1937 – Antonio Gramsci
2014 – Vujadin Boskov
