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Day Of The Week: April 27
April 27, 2025 is the 117th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 248 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Taurus is your zodiac sign. Diamond is your modern birthstone. Opal is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: April 27
- 1296 –Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
- 1667 –The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
- 1805 –First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The “shores of Tripoli” part of the Marines’ hymn).
- 1813 –War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
- 1861 –President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
- 1865 –The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state’s land grant institution.
- 1865 –The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
- 1941 –World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as “National Democrats”) and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.
- 1977 –28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
- 2007 –Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
Who were born on April 27?
- 1862 –Rudolph Schildkraut, Turkish-born American actor (d. 1930)
- 1913 –Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist (d. 2004)
- 1922 –Martin Gray, Polish-born American writer and Holocaust survivor
- 1927 –Joe Moakley, American politician (d. 2001)
- 1932 –Anouk Aimée, French actress
- 1937 –Robin Eames, Northern Irish clergyman
- 1947 –Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
- 1957 –Adrian Utley, English musician (Portishead)
- 1962 –James LeGros, American actor
- 1974 –Richard Johnson, Australian footballer
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