27. April

of the 27. April is the 117. Day of the Gregorian calendar (the 118. in leap years), thus still 248 days up to the year end remain.

of events

politics

• 1622: Battle with pointing hole: the united armies of one field and George Friedrichs of bath finalURL oh defeat the imperial ones under Tilly in the dreissigjährigen war.
• 1848: The German democratic Legion under guidance of the revolutionary poet George Herwegh is subject to counter-revolutionary troops with combat in Dossenbach/bathing (see. Revolution, March revolution and Heckerzug of Baden).
• 1848: France announces the abolishment of the slavery in its colonies.
• 1861: West Virginia splits itself off Virginia , which leaves the USA and part of the Konföderation becomes.
• 1915: The First World War: A Austrian-Hungarian submarine sinks the French tank cruiser Gambetta in the road of Otranto.
• 1920:That large Berlin today's Berlin mentioned develops at that time from the union of the municipalities Berlin, Charlottenburg, Köpenick, Lichtenberg, Neukölln, Schöneberg, Spandau and Wilmersdorf as well as from 59 land municipalities and 27 property goods. With this union the number of inhabitants doubles itselfBerlin on 3.8 million; the surface of the city verdreizehnfacht itself on 883 km ² (today 892 km ²).
• 1937: In San Francisco the traffic release that takes place golden gate Bridge.
• 1940: The Second World War: The supreme command of the armed forces confirms for the first timeFights between German and British troops in Norway.
• 1941: The German armed forces conquer Athens.
• 1945: Release of the concentration camp complex purchase ring/Landsberg at the Lech by the US army.
• 1945: The provisional state government among state chancellors, formed in Vienna Karl racer - with Leopold Figl (ÖVP), Adolf sharp (SPÖ) and Johann Koplenig (KPÖ) as deputies - is recognized by the USSR. Before that parliament building at the struggle race proclaims it the re-establishment of the independent democratic Republic of Austria and explains that„Connection “at Germany of 1938 for zero and futile: Birth of the second republic.
• 1952: Signing of a peace treaty between Japan and the People's Republic of China.
• 1960: Togo, to date formally unfaithful hand area, receives its full independence; Sylvanus Olympio becomes a first president.
• 1961: Sierra Leone becomes independent of Great Britain, remains however in the Commonwealth OF nation.
• 1969: The French president Charles de Gaulle steps after a defeat with a referendum over the regionalization of the administrationback.
• 1972: In the German Bundestag a constructional vote of no confidence fails against Willy Brandt.
• 1978: Afghanistan: Militärputsch against Mohammad Daud; Taraki becomes a new president and amine second man in the state.
• 1992: Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP) announces his resignation.
• 1992: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (BRJ) is formed by the union of Serbia and Montenegros.
• 1993: First democratic and secret elections in Yemen.
• 1994: In South Africa the new transition condition guarantees the citizens of allRaces the equal rights and the right to vote.
• 1997: With the parliamentary elections in Yemen the general congress of people ( AVK) of president Ali Abdallah aluminium-Saleh wins.
• 1997: Dissolved in Canada the parliament will become by prime minister Jean Chrétien, new elections forthe 1. June fixes.
• 1999: Georgien becomes as 41. Member of the Council of Europe taken up.
• 2002: In France hundredthousands demonstrate against the success of the right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen in the 1. Passage of the Präsidentenwahl.
• 2003: Third democratic elections in Yemen.
• 2003: In Paraguay Nicanor Duarte Frutos to the president selected, at the same time loses the government party with the parliamentary elections their absolute majority.
• 2005: Official Austria celebrates the 60. Anniversary of its reestablishment (2. Republic) with an act of state in thatViennese yard castle. Numerous diplomats, grades and 60jährige of 'birthday children 'celebrate „the day of the joy “(Federal Chancellor dish) also.
• 2005: In Egypt hundreds trailers of the movement Kifaja in 15 different cities for more democracy and against that demonstratePresident Mubarak.

economics

• 1940: With the conclusion of the Abwrackung of LZ 127 count Zeppelin and LZ 130 count Zeppelin II the era of the large ends airship-driven.

science and technology

• 1949: Harald E. Thompson reaches the speed world record of 208,5 km/h with its helicopter Sikorsky S-52.
• 2005: Under the applause rope that look-merry starts the large-capacity aircraft airbus A380 in Toulouse to its first flight. Airbus expects thereby, its in relation to market share To develop Boeing.

culture

• 1720: Premiere of the opera Radamisto of George Friedrich trade at the King's Theatre in London.
• 1877: Premiere of the opera Le Roi de Lahore von Jules Massenet to the Grand Opéra Paris.
• 1893: Premiere of the opera Aljeko of Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow in the Bolschoi theatre in Moscow.
• 1929: Premiere of the opera Jürg Jenatsch of Heinrich fire-place ski at the state opera in Dresden.
• 1985: The GDR dramatist Heiner Mueller receives the George book he price the German academy for language and seal.

disasters

• 1865: The steam ship Sultana, explodes with 2.300 passengers on board on the Mississippi. 1,700 humans are killed.
• 1895: The concrete dam of Bouzey (France) fails.The disaster has between 86 and 200 victims as a consequence.
• 1952: The fast sweeper Hobson sinks during a maneuver in the Atlantic after the collision with the aircraft carrier Wasp (both USA). 176 dead ones and many hurt ones.
• 1993: Afghanistan. With Tashqurgan falls Antonov a An-32 of the Afghan Air Force with 76 humans. Nobody survives.
• 1993: From Lusaka, Zambia coming DHC-5 Buffalo of the Zambian Air Force falls after an intermediate stop into Libreville, Gabon into the sea, afterthe left engine failed. On board the Zambian national soccer team dies including companions (30 humans), that are on the way to a WM-Qualifikationsspiel in Dakar , Senegal.

sport

• 1908: IV. Olympic summer games of the modern times becomein London opens.
• 2002: The sports club Magdeburg wins the EHF champion League as an only federal league crew.

Entries from athlete IC world records are under the respective discipline under Leichtathletik; for events within the range formula 1 see there.

Born

• 1623: Johann Adam Reinken, German organist and composer
• 1650: Charlotte Amalie of Hessen Kassel, was as a wife Christians V. Queen of Denmark and Norway
• 1701: Karl Emanuel III., King of Piemont Sardinienand duke of Savoyen
• 1733: Josef God-dear Koelreuter, German Botaniker and professor for natural history
• 1737: Edward Gibbon, British historian
• 1748: Adamantios Korais, giechischer/French scholar and writer
• 1755: Mark Antoine Parseval, French mathematician
• 1757: Carl Johan Adlercreutz, Swedish general
• 1759: Mary Wollstonecraft, English authoress and Frauenrechtlerin
• 1764: Johann Friedrich Cotta, German publisher, industrial pioneer and politician
• 1765: Johann of Thielmann, Saxonian and Prussian general
• 1770: Edward Codrington, English admiral
• 1771: Jean Rapp, French count, lieutenant general and aide of Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1776: Hyacinthe Jadin, French composer and professor
• 1791: Samuel Morse, US-American inventor
• 1803: Alfred Julius cup,Viennese October in a revolutionary manner from 1848
• 1812: Friedrich of Flotow, German composer
• 1820: Harsh ore Spencer, British philosopher and sociologist
• 1820: Hermann Theodor broad head, German geologist, engineer and Patriot
• 1821: Henry Willis, organ farmer
• 1822: Ulysses S. Grant, US-American politician, 18. President of the USA
• 1828: August Becker (writer), German writer
• 1836: Eugen Felix, Austrian painter
• 1837: Briefly Wachsmuth, Philologe
• 1837: Paul Albert Gordan, German mathematician
• 1840: Edward Whymper, English mountain climber
• 1842: Emil Jakob Schindler, painter
• 1844: Albert von Keller, Schweizer, Maler
• 1844: Alois Riehl, Austrian philosopher
• 1844: Klara Ziegler, German actress
• 1845: Friedrich of Hefner Alteneck, German technical designer, electrical engineer and engineer
• 1848: Johann Desch, German dress manufacturer
• 1848: Otto I., King by Bavaria
• 1850: Hans's von Beseler, Prussian general and politician of the Wilhelmini time
• 1850: Theophil speaker, bossthe general staff of Swiss army
• 1855: Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, French Sozialistin, lady journalist and Feministin
• 1855: Hans Olde, German painter
• 1856: Tongzhi (emperor), emperors of China
• 1857: Johannes Chrząszcz, schlesischer priest andNational historical researcher
• 1857: Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian draughtsman
• 1860: Franz angle Meier, largest humans of the world
• 1866: Ludwig Karpath, Austrian music writer
• 1869: Fritz wiper, German writer of down-German language
• 1873: Robert Wiene, German director
• 1874: Rudolf Linnemann, architect, interior decoration and glass painter
• 1875: Maurice de Broglie, 6. Duke of Broglie, physicist, member of the Académie française
• 1876: Heinrich makes, Austrian physicist
• 1878: John Rimmer, British athlete and olympia winner
• 1879: Otto book joke, German politician
• 1880: Mikhel Lüdig, estnischer composer
• 1883: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Arnold Bermann, Austrian journalist and writer
• 1884: Arthur Wieferich, German mathematician
• 1885: Arthur Zarden, Finanzfachmann and Finanzstaatssekretär inthe Weimar Republic
• 1888: Waldemar of Grumbkow, German lawyer and writer
• 1890: Otto Ernst Schweizer, German architect
• 1894: George Petty, photographer
• 1896: Wallace H. Carothers, US-American chemist
• 1897: William shrubs,German minister, EH gelist and writer
• 1903: Franc Belknap Long, US-American author
• 1903: Karl Maron, Minister of the Interior of the GDR
• 1904: Arthur Frank Burns, US-American economist and diplomat
• 1904: Cecil Day Lewis, English-Irish writer
• 1904: Fritz Weitzel, higher SS and police leader for the west and the north of Nazi Germany
• 1904: Syd Nathan, US-American R&B producer
• 1906: Aimé Maeght, French Lithograph, art dealer, Galerist and publisher
• 1906: Hermann Mörchen, German philosopher,Religion and literature scientist
• 1908: Carlo Felice Trossi, Italian running driver
• 1909: Jos Moerenhout, Belgian composer and conductor
• 1913: Luz Long, German athlete and olympia medal winner
• 1913: Philip Hauge Abelson, US-American physicist and chemist
• 1913: Werner Sanss, German theologian and peace activist
• 1915: Hovhannes Schiraz, Armenian poet
• 1916: Enos Slaughter, US-American baseball player
• 1916: Peter Keetman, German photographer
• 1916: Sigurd Lunde, Norwegian bishop, composer, writer
• 1920: Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor
• 1921: Erwin Ringel, Austrian depth psychologist and neurologist
• 1921: Hans Joachim Kulenkampff, German actor and television moderator
• 1921: John Stott, British theologian
• 1921: Robert Dhéry, French Filmschauspieler and director
• 1922: Hans Bemmann, German writer
• 1922: Jack Klugman, film and television actor
• 1922: Sheila Scott, English female pilot
• 1924: Lena stump, German light athlete
• 1927: Coretta Scott King, US-American Bürgerrechtlerin
• 1929: Nina Romaschkowa, Russian light athlete and Olympiasiegerin
• 1929: Willi Hoss, German Green Party politician
• 1931: Erhard knight house, German manager and Hamburg senator
• 1931: Igor Oistrach, Ukrainian violonist
• 1931: Krzysztof Komeda, Polish jazz musician and composer
• 1932: Anouk Aimée, French film actress
• 1932: Maxine Brown, US-American singer, member of the group of vowels of “The Browns”
• 1932: Casey Kasem, radio moderator in the USA
• 1932: Roelof Frederick Botha, South African minister of foreign affairs
• 1933: Leonid Michailowitsch Roschal,Russian expert of the World Health Organization
• 1934: Jürgen Kühling, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1936: Theo Angelopoulos, Greek director
• 1937: Sandy Dennis, US-American actress
• 1938: Pure hard of Schorlemer, German politician
• 1939: Eric Pevernagie, BelgianPainter
• 1939: João Bernardo Vieira, president of Guinea-Bissau
• 1939: Stanisław Dziwisz, secretary Pope Johannes Pauls IITH, late archbishop of Krakau and cardinal
• 1940: Peter Siewert, Althistoriker, Epigraphiker and Altphilologe
• 1941: Friedrich Goldmann,German composer and conductor
• 1941: Peter Ensikat, German writer and Kabarettist
• 1941: Rainer nightingale, German football player
• 1942: Waleri Wladimirowitsch Poljakow, Soviet cosmonaut
• 1943: Helmut Marko, Austrian author driver
• 1944: Bassam Salih Kubba, deputy Iraqi minister of foreign affairs
• 1944: Heikki Westerinen, Finnish chess player
• 1944: Walter Kolbow, German politician
• 1945: August Wilson, US-American dramatist and stage author
• 1945: Martin Chivers, English football player
• 1946: Franz Roth, GermanFootball player
• 1946: Gordon Haskell, bassist and singer
• 1947: Pete Ham, British rock singer and - guitarist
• 1948: Josef Hickersberger, football player, football coach
• 1949: Jean Asselborn, of Luxembourg politician, minister of foreign affairs of Luxembourg
• 1950: Ace Frehley, US AmericanMusician
• 1951: Olivia Hussey, Argentine-British actress
• 1951: Viviane Reding, of Luxembourg lady journalist and politician
• 1952: Air Vatanen, Finnish Rallyefahrer
• 1952: Hilary J. Baths, US-American film script authoress
• 1954: Jürgen Bäuerle, German politician
• 1954: Stefan Fredrich, German synchronous speaker
• 1955: Gudrun Berend, German light athlete
• 1955: Lea Linster, cook from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
• 1957: Edgar stone fount, German football arbitrator
• 1957: Eric Bristow, British Dartspieler
• 1957: Michael Henke, German football coach
• 1958: Christoph oh brook, German manager
• 1958: Refuge Hamann, German photographer
• 1959: Sheena Easton, British singer
• 1961: Karl Alpiger, Swiss ski running runner
• 1963: Dorota Mogore Tlałka, Polish Skirennläuferin
• 1963: Małgorzata Mogore Tlałka, Polish Skirennläuferin
• 1963: Masaya Kato, Japanese actor
• 1966: Yoshihiro Togashi, Mangaka
• 1967: January Ditgen, Dt. Charm artist, Komiker and moderator
• 1967: Willem Alexander of Oranien Nassau, Crown Prince of the Netherlands
• 1968: Henrik shepherd, German conductor
• 1968: Knut Reinhardt, football player
• 1972: Mehmet Kurtuluş, türkischstämmiger actor from Germany
• 1975: Kazuyoshi Funaki, Japanese ski Springer
• 1976: Olaf Tufte, Norwegian Ruderer
• 1978: Fisz, PolishRWSby
• 1978: Jakub Janda, Czech ski Springer
• 1980: Marisa Miller, US-American photo model
• 1980: Zayed Khan, Indian Filmschauspieler
• 1981: André there Silva Luciano Pinga, Brazilian football player
• 1981: Sandy Mölling, German Popsängerin
• 1984: Patrick Stump, front singer and guitarist of the Punkrockband case Out Boy
• 1986: DIN era Michailowna Safina, Russian Tennisspielerin
• 1987: William Moseley, British Filmschauspieler

died

• 1304: Petrus Armengol, Spanish Mercedarier
• 1386: Leonore Teles de Menezes, Portuguese noble ones
• 1404: Philipp II. the bold one, duke by Burgund
  

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• 1521: Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese sailor, for the Spanish crown segelte
• 1524: Anton of cloths, German buyer andMäzen
• 1536: Johann Apel, German lawyer and human
• 1586: Adam Henricpetri, author of a more-restrained historical work
• 1605: Leo XI. (Alessandro Medici), Pope of the 1. to 27. April 1605
• 1641: William of Rath, German soldier
• 1656: Gerrit van Honthorst, Netherlands painter
• 1656: January van Goyen, Netherlands painter
• 1672: Briefly Reinicke of call mountain, German soldier and civil servant
• 1694: Johann George IV., Cure prince of Saxonia from the house Wettin
• 1702: Jean Bart, Freibeuter from you churches
• 1715: Valerian burner, building master of the Vorarlberger of baroque
• 1794: James Bruce, Scottish travelers
• 1794: William Jones, English Orientalist and lawyer, judge at the highest court in Calcutta
• 1806: Amalie of Gallitzin, co-foundress of the “romantic” catholicism
• 1837: Heinrich Schmelka, actor
• 1847: Henry Wellesley, 1. Baron Cowley OF Wesley, English statesman and diplomat
• 1881: Emile de Girardin, French publisher
• 1882: Ferdinand realm, German chemist and physicist
• 1882: Ralph Waldo Emerson, US-American philosopher and poet
• 1886: Eugène Isabey, French painter
• 1887: Alfred von Reumont, German statesman and historian
• 1896: Albert Fischer, EvangelistMinister and Hymnologe
• 1897: Ludwig William August von Baden, prince of Baden, politician and general
• 1913: Gabriel of Seidl, German architect and representative of historicism
• 1915: Alexander Nikolajewitsch Skrjabin, Russian pianist and composer
• 1915: Alexandr Skrjabin, Russian pianist and composer
• 1916: Bruno Schmitz, German architect
• 1918: Oskar Troplowitz, German Pharmakologe and entrepreneur
• 1932: Hard Crane, US-American poet
• 1936: Karl Pearson, British mathematician and philosopher
• 1937: Antonio Gramsci, Italian writer, politician and theoretician of communism
• 1938: Edmund Husserl, German philosopher
• 1943: Fanny Starhemberg, Austrian politician
• 1947: Heinrich old gentleman, Swiss painter
• 1950: Karl Straube, German organist andThomaskantor in Leipzig
• 1959: William falling thing Ogburn, US-American sociologist
• 1960: Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and Marxist theoretician
• 1963: Lilo left, German authoress and Reporterin
• 1964: George Britting, German writer
• 1965: Paul Beckers, German Komiker
• 1970: Ilmari Kianto, Finnish writer
• 1972: Kwame Nkrumah, ghanesischer politician and president
• 1975: Mike Brant, French musician
• 1978: Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan politician, head of the government and president
• 1979: Willibald Schmaus, German and Austrian football player
• 1983: George von Holtzbrinck, German publisher
• 1984: Z. Z. Hill, US-American singer
• 1987: Attila Hörbiger, Austrian actor
• 1987: Roll ago Kauer, Swiss writer
• 1989: Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese Industrieller
• 1991: Fritz Corterier, German politician and MdB
• 1992: Olivier Messiaen, French composer and organist
• 1995: Willem Frederik Hermans, Netherlands writer
• 1998: Carlo Castaneda, US-American Anthropologe and writer
• 1998: Pauline Réage, French authoress
• 1999: Mark of wise, US-American computer scientist
• 2000: Lothar autumn, Polish poet
• 2000: Joachim Kemmer, German actor and synchronous speaker
• 2002: George Alec Effinger, Science Fiction author
• 2003: Dorothee should, German Evangelist theologies
• 2004: Alex Randolph, US-American play author
• 2004: Ulrich Stranz, German composer

of celebration and anniversaries

• church anniversaries:
  • Hl. Petrus Canisius, church teacher (catholic anniversary in the German language area, otherwise 21. December)
  • Sel. Petrus Armengol (catholic)
• of national holidays:
  • National rebellion day in Slovenia
  • day of the condition (1994) in South Africa
  • independence day in Togo
• world day of the Design

see also: Historical anniversaries, time scale