April 27: Who’s Celebrating – Some events like today

April 27: events like today

Pictures: The devastating earthquake in Agios Konstantinos Fthiotidas, the Germans invade Athens, Ioannis Makrygiannis, Antonio Gramsci, Marios Tokas, the first computer mouse

Saturday 27 April 2024: Saturday of Lazarus, Hieromartyr Simeon bishop of Jerusalem

Celebrate: Lazarus, Lazaria

World days
• World Design Day

Events on April 27
• 1875 In Greece, Charilaos Trikoupis takes over the government of the country for the first time.
• 1894 A strong earthquake, measuring 7 degrees on the Richter scale, is noted with its epicenter in Agios Konstantinos Fthiotidas. 255 people are killed and 3,783 houses collapse in 69 settlements, while a 3-meter-high tsunami occurs, which penetrates one kilometer inland.

• 1908 Opening ceremony of the 4th modern Olympic Games in London. They last 6 months until October 31 and hold the record for the longest duration. 1999 athletes and 36 athletes are participating.

• 1941 World War II: German troops enter Athens, the period of Occupation begins. German troops also enter Argos and Nafplion.

• 1941 The writer Penelope Delta, committed suicide with poison, in protest against the occupation of Athens by the Germans.

• [1945 Benito Mussolini is captured by Italian partisans.
• 1952 The Pan-Cypriot National Assembly in Nicosia approves a resolution for the union of Cyprus with Greece.
• 1960 Togo gains independence from France.
• 1961 Sierra Leone gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1970 For the first time in the world, in a Paris hospital, a plutonium pacemaker is placed in a cardiac patient.
• 1981 The first computer mouse is introduced at the Xerox PARC research center.

• 1988 Agop Agopian, the leader of the secret organization “Azala”, is murdered in Athens. On the same day, an assassination attempt is made in Athens against Matt Sambri, secretary of the Athens PLO echelon
• 1992 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is formed from the union of Serbia and Montenegro.

April 27th births
• 1748 Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar
• 1903 Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician
• 1935 Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter

Deaths on April 27
• 1521 Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer
• 1864 Ioannis Makrygiannis, Greek military and politician
• 1937 Antonio Gramsci, Italian writer and politician
• 2008 Marios Tokas, Cypriot composer

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