April 27

This day in history:

• 1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
• 1976 – Thirty-seven people are killed when American Airlines Flight 625 crashes at Cyril E. King Airport in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
• 1989 – The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.

Births:

• 1945 – Martin Chivers, English footballer and manager
• 85 BC – Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, Roman politician and general (d. 43 BC)
• 1952 – Ari Vatanen, Finnish race car driver and politician

Deaths:

• 1998 – Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
• 1999 – Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1922)
• 1782 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household (b. 1710)

Holidays:

• Freedom Day (South Africa)
• National Veterans' Day (Finland)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Togo from France in 1960.

Random Article of the day:

Oliver Butterworth (violinist)

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