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Historical events on December 27

DECEMBER 27, 1997
Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright was assassinated in HM Prison Maze by members of the Irish National Liberation Army.
The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) was an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. It was formed by Billy Wright in 1996 Read More
DECEMBER 27, 1918
A public speech by the Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań sparked the Greater Poland uprising against Germany.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer and statesman who was a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the Read More
DECEMBER 27, 2007
Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated while leaving a Pakistan People's Party political rally at Liaqat National Bagh in Rawalpindi.
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from Read More
DECEMBER 27, 1932
New York City's Radio City Music Hall opened with the world's largest auditorium at the time.
Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Read More
DECEMBER 27, 1831
HMS Beagle departed Plymouth, England, on a voyage to South America that established Charles Darwin (pictured) as a naturalist.
HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class. The vessel, Read More
DECEMBER 27, 2007
Riots erupted in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the presidential election—the first event in a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.
Mombasa is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It was the first capital of British East Africa, before Read More
DECEMBER 27, 1521
A period of unrest in Wittenberg following the arrival of three men of the Radical Reformation, known as the Zwickau prophets, was quelled after Martin Luther's release from custody.
Wittenberg, officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is the fourth-largest town in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is situated Read More
DECEMBER 27, 1922
The Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned Hōshō (pictured), the world's first purpose-built aircraft carrier.
The Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's Read More
DECEMBER 27, 1979
Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet troops stormed Tajbeg Palace outside Kabul and killed Afghan president Hafizullah Amin and his 100–150 elite guards.
The Soviet–Afghan War was an armed conflict that took place in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. Read More
DECEMBER 27, 1985
The body of murdered American primatologist Dian Fossey was discovered inside her cabin in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.
Primatology is the scientific study of non-human primates. It is a diverse discipline at the boundary between mammalogy and anthropology, and researchers Read More
DECEMBER 27, 2002
The human-cloning company Clonaid claimed to have performed the first reproductive cloning of a human, but provided no evidence for the claim.
Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human. The term is generally used to refer to artificial Read More
DECEMBER 27, 2008
Citing rocket attacks from Palestinian armed groups, Israel launched a surprise attack against the Gaza Strip, opening the three-week Gaza War.
The Qassam rocket is a simple, steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Read More
DECEMBER 27, 2024
Acting president and prime minister of South Korea Han Duck-soo (pictured) is impeached by the National Assembly.
The president of the Republic of Korea, also known as the president of South Korea, is the head of state and head Read More
DECEMBER 27, 537
The reconstructed Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was inaugurated; built as a church, it later became a mosque and a museum.
Hagia Sophia, officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, is a mosque, museum and former church serving as a major cultural and historical Read More
DECEMBER 27, 1657
Citizens of New Netherland presented the Flushing Remonstrance to Peter Stuyvesant, the director general of the colonial province, requesting an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.
New Netherland was a colony of the Dutch Republic located on the East Coast of what is now the United States. The Read More

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