Hisdates•ComPage 8: Historical Events In April - 27
Monday, 20 January 2025
1986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO on this day in history. 
1987 US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II on this day in history.
1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China on April - 27.
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 this day in history.
1991 Ken Curtis, actor (Lost, Freckles, Calif Gold Rush), dies at 74 on April - 27.
1992 Olivier Messiaen, French composer, dies at 83 on April - 27.
1993 On this day in history hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90
1994 On April - 27 jerome Lejeune, physiologist, dies at 69
1996 Joan Sterndale Bennett, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows), dies at 86 on this day in history.
1997 On this day in history paul Lambert, actor (Tom-Executive Suite), dies at 73
2005 The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse on this day in history.
2007 On this day in history turkish Presidential Election first round, which was later declared invalid by a Turkish court.
2008 Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar killing 138,373 people on this day in history.
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 this day in history the deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history.
2012 On April - 27 four explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, kill 27 people
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 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 on this day in history.
2018 On this day in history swedish band ABBA announce they have recorded new songs for the first time since 1982
2018 On April - 27 german leader Angela Merkel has a 1-day trip to Washington meeting US President Donald Trump
2018 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 on April - 27.
2018 More than 40 Tuareg killed over two days by suspected jihadists in Menaka region, Mali on this day in history.
2018 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 on this day in history.
2019 Pope Francis donates $500,000 for migrants stranded in Mexico trying to reach the US on April - 27.
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 this day in history.
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 On this day in history brazil's Senate orders an official inquiry into President Jair Bolsonaro ' and government official's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic
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 this day in history james Corden 's final appearance as host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS, after 1,196 episodes
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