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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Freedom Day in South Africa ( 1994); | refimprove |
| Independence Day in Sierra Leone ( 1961) and Togo ( 1960) | Togo: multiple issues: Sierra Leone: outdated |
| 1296 – In the first battle of the First War of Scottish Independence, the English defeated the Scots near Dunbar, Scotland. | refimprove |
| 1565 – Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi and 500 armed soldiers established the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines, Cebu. | López: refimprove; Cebu: refimprove section |
| 1650 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms: The Covenanters defeated an invading Royalist army at the Battle of Carbisdale near the village of Culrain, Scotland. | refimprove |
| 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 Derna in Tripoli, marking the first recorded land battle by the United States on foreign soil. | refimprove section |
| 1906 – The State Duma of the Russian Empire met for the first time. | refimprove section |
| 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. | Abdul Hamid II: appears on August 31; Mehmed V: refimprove |
| 1945 – The photograph Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn was taken after German troops withdrew to Norway on the last day of the Second World War in Finland. | POTD for 2018 |
| 1961 – Milton Margai took office as the first Prime Minister of Sierra Leone upon the nation's independence from the United Kingdom. | refimprove section |
| 1992 – Betty Boothroyd became the first female Speaker of the British House of Commons. | refimprove |
| 1994 – Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress won a landslide victory in the first non-racial elections in the history of South Africa. | expansion |
Eligible
- 629 – Shahrbaraz usurped the throne of the Sasanian Empire from Ardashir III, but was himself deposed only forty days later.
- 1522 – Italian War of 1521–26: The combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeated a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
- 1810 – Ludwig van Beethoven composed his "Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor", better known as " Für Elise", one of his most popular compositions.
- 1865 – An explosion destroyed the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River, killing an estimated 1,700 of the 2,400 passengers.
- 1904 – Chris Watson became the first Australian Prime Minister from the Australian Labour Party.
- 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.
- 1941 – Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil resistance and political organization.
- 2005 – The Airbus A380, the largest passenger airliner in the world, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.
- 2011 – During the most active day of the 2011 Super Outbreak 218 tornadoes killed 317 people across 16 U.S. states.
- 2012 – Unknown perpetrators committed a series of four bombings in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
- Born/died: Mary Wollstonecraft (b. 1759) · Sergei Prokofiev (b. 1891) · Olivier Messiaen (d. 1992)
Notes
- Century 21 Exposition appears on April 21, so Expo 67 should not appear in the same year
April 27: King's Day in the Netherlands
- 395 – Aelia Eudoxia married Byzantine emperor Arcadius without the knowledge or consent of Rufinus, the Praetorian prefect who had intended for his own daughter to wed the emperor.
- 1521 – Filipino natives led by chieftain Lapu-Lapu killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan at the Battle of Mactan (pictured).
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British Army regulars defeated Patriot militias in the Battle of Ridgefield, galvanizing resistance in the Connecticut Colony.
- 1967 – The Expo 67 world's fair opened in Montreal, with 62 nations participating and more than 50 million visitors ultimately attending.
- 1993 – Thirty people died, including players and staff of the Zambia football team and the crew, in a plane crash en route to play a World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (d. 1882) · Draža Mihailović (b. 1893) · Sheila Scott (b. 1922)