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Events on April 27

• 1521 On the Philippine island of Mactan, the Portuguese seafarer and explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who was sailing under the Spanish flag, is killed during a battle against the indigenous population under their chief Lapu-Lapu. After the admiral's death, Juan Sebastián Elcano takes over command of the circumnavigation.
• 1810 Ludwig van Beethoven presumably dedicates the piece Für Elise to one of his female piano students.
• 1848 The Baden Revolution in the context of the March Revolution fails: In the engagement at Dossenbach, the German Democratic Legion, led by the revolutionary poet Georg Herwegh, is defeated by counter-revolutionary troops from Württemberg.
• 1880 The German Reichstag rejects by a narrow majority the Samoa bill introduced on 14 April by Imperial Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Nevertheless, the legislative bill is regarded today as the beginning of official German colonial policy.
• 1940 SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler orders the construction of a “quarantine camp” for 10,000 inmates near the small Polish town of Oświęcim, from which the Auschwitz concentration camp later emerges.
• 1972 In the German Bundestag, the constructive vote of no confidence by the CDU under Rainer Barzel against Willy Brandt's social-liberal government fails completely unexpectedly. It later becomes known that the GDR's Ministry for State Security had bribed the two Union MPs, Julius Steiner and Leo Wagner.
• 1994 In South Africa, a new constitution comes into force after the end of apartheid. It guarantees equality and voting rights to people of all races. The homelands are reunified with South Africa.
• 1999 The Adler Mannheim are crowned German ice hockey champions for the fourth time and complete a hat-trick of titles following 96/97 and 97/98.
• 2002 By defeating KC Veszprém from Hungary, the handball club SC Magdeburg becomes the first German Bundesliga team to win the EHF Men's Champions League, newly established in 1994.
• 2005 To the applause of thousands of onlookers, the wide-body aircraft Airbus A380 takes off on its maiden flight from Toulouse after several postponements. Airbus hopes thereby to expand its market share relative to Boeing.
• 2006 At Ground Zero in New York City, construction begins on the One World Trade Center, which is to be built on the site of the World Trade Center destroyed in the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 (designed as Freedom Tower). The foundation stone had already been laid on 4 July 2004.
• 2018 Kim Jong-un meets with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Panmunjom. This is the first time that a North Korean head of state has entered South Korean territory.

Born on April 27

• 1873 Robert Wiene, German film director
• 1903 Karl Maron, German party official and politician
• 1921 Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, German actor and television presenter
• 1931 Igor Dawidowitsch Oistrach, Ukrainian violinist
• 1932 Anouk Aimée, French film actress
• 1941 Fethullah Gülen, Turkish Islamic preacher
• 1951 Ace Frehley, American musician
• 1972 Mehmet Kurtuluş, German actor
• 1981 Sandy Mölling, German pop singer
• 2001 Flavius Daniliuc, Austrian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „27. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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