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The following events took place on April 27. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 59 events. Showing 31 - 59.

• 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 Slovene Nation.
• 1945

  World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
• 1945

  World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
• 1950

  Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
• 1953

  Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
• 1960

  Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
• 1961

  Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
• 1967

  Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
• 1974

  Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon
• 1977

  Twenty-eight people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
• 1978

  Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
• 1981

  Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
• 1986

  The city of Pripyat as well as the surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.
• 1987

  The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
• 1989

  The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• 1992

  The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
• 1992

  Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
• 1992

  The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
• 1993

  All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
• 1994

  South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
• 1996

  The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
• 2002

  The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
• 2005

  The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France. An accident involving a bus and a train occurs in Polgahawela, Sri Lanka.
• 2006

  Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.
• 2007

  Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
• 2011

  The April 25–28 tornado outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
• 2012

  At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
• 2014

  Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints in the first papal canonization since 1954.
• 2014

  A tornado outbreak over much of the eastern United States kills 35 people.

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