Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 27

This is a list of selected April 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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  Ludwig van Beethoven

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1296 – In the first battle of the First War of Scottish Independence, the English defeated the Scots near Dunbar, Scotland.
1521 – Filipino natives led by chieftain Lapu-Lapu (statue pictured) killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and over forty Spanish soldiers at the Battle of Mactan.	unreferenced section
1565 – Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi and 500 armed soldiers established the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines, Cebu.	both López and Cebu articles tagged refimprove
1650 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms: The Covenanters defeated an invading Royalist army at the Battle of Carbisdale near the village of Culrain, Scotland.	no footnotes
1667 – John Milton, blind and impoverished, sold the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.	refimprove section
1805 – First Barbary War: U.S. Marines engaged forces of the Barbary Coast at the Battle of Derne in Tripoli, marking the first recorded land battle by the United States on foreign soil.	refimprove
1909 – After the government was restored following the 31 March Incident and the Adana massacre, Abdul Hamid II, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to rule with absolute power, was overthrown by Mehmed V.	neither article that relates to this date (Abdul Hamid II, Mehmed V) is suitable

Eligible

• 1810 – Ludwig van Beethoven composed his "Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor", better known as "Für Elise", one of his most popular compositions.

• 1865 – The New York State Senate created Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.

• 1911 – Following the resignation of William P. Frye, a compromise was reached in the United States Senate to rotate the office of the President pro tempore of the United States Senate.

• 1904 – Chris Watson became the first Australian Prime Minister from the Australian Labour Party, and the first Labour Party prime minister in the world.

• 1967 – The Expo 67 world's fair opened in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with over 50 million visitors and 62 nations participating.

• 1994 – Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress won a landslide victory in the first non-racial elections in the history of South Africa.

April 27: Independence Day in Sierra Leone (1961); Freedom Day in South Africa

• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British Army regulars defeated Patriot militias in the Battle of Ridgefield, galvanizing resistance in the Connecticut Colony.

• 1865 – An explosion destroyed the steamboat SS Sultana on the Mississippi River, killing an estimated 1,800 of the 2,400 passengers.

• 1992 – Betty Boothroyd became the first female Speaker of the British House of Commons.

• 1993 – Members of the Zambia national football team were killed in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon, en route to Dakar, Senegal, to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.

• 2005 – The Airbus A380 (pictured), the largest passenger airliner in the world, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.

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