Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
December 27
| 1512 | The laws of Burgos give New World natives legal protection against abuse and authorize Negro slavery. | |
| 1831 | HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, departs from Plymouth. It will eventually visit the Galapagos Islands where Darwin will form his theories on evolution. | |
| 1862 | Union General William Rosecrans' army begins moving slowly toward Murfreesboro. | |
| 1913 | Charles Moyer, president of the Miners Union, is shot in the back and dragged through the streets of Chicago. | |
| 1915 | In Ohio, iron and steel workers go on strike for an eight-hour day and higher wages. | |
| 1932 | Radio City Music Hall opens. | |
| 1933 | Josef Stalin calls tensions with Japan a grave danger. | |
| 1939 | A series of vicious earthquakes take 11,000 lives in Turkey. | |
| 1941 | Japanese bombers attack Manila, despite its claim as an open city. | |
| 1944 | General George S. Patton's Third Army, spearheaded by the 4th Armored Division, relieves the surrounded city of Bastogne in Belgium. | |
| 1945 | The International Monetary Fund and the Bank for Reconstruction and Development are created. | |
| 1947 | The new Italian constitution is promulgated in Rome. | |
| 1950 | The United States and Spain resume relations for the first time since the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. | |
| 1956 | Segregation on buses in Tallahassee, Florida is outlawed. | |
| 1968 | The United States agrees to sell F-4 Phantom jets to Israel. | |
| 1979 | President Hafizullah Amin of Afghanistan is ousted and murdered in a coup backed by the Soviet Union, beginning a war that will last more than 10 years. | |
| 1983 | President Reagan takes all responsibility for the lack of security in Beirut that allowed a terrorist on a suicide mission to kill 241 Marines. | |
| 1984 | Four Polish officers are tried for the slaying of Reverend Jerzy Popieluszko. | |
| Born on December 27 | ||
| 1571 | Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician. | |
| 1822 | Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist. | |
| 1829 | Hinton Helper, southern abolitionist who wrote The Impending Crisis. | |
| 1901 | Marlene Dietrich, German-born singer and actress. | |
| 1943 | Cokie Roberts, American broadcast journalist. | |
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