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, Tennessee, from Nashville. | |
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. | |
1985 | Palestinian guerrillas kill 18 people at airports in Rome and Vienna. | |
1996 | Taliban forces retake strategic Bagram Airfield during Afghan civil war. | |
2001 | China receives permanent normal trade relations with the US. | |
2004 | Radiation reaches Earth from the brightest extrasolar event ever witnessed, an explosion of magnetar SGR 1806-20. | |
2007 | Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto assassinated. | |
2007 | After Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of Kenya's presidential elections, rioting begins in Mombasa, precipitating an economic, humanitarian and political crisis. |
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