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Events

• 1539 (487 years ago) Official founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
• 1927 (99 years ago) Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
• 1978 (48 years ago) The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
• 1992 (34 years ago) The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
• 2007 (19 years ago) Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
• 2007 (19 years ago) Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
• 2012 (14 years ago) At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
• 2018 (8 years ago) The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict.

Births

• 1593 (433 years ago) Mumtaz Mahal, Mughal empress buried at the Taj Mahal (died 1631)
• 1759 (267 years ago) Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist (died 1797)
• 1791 (235 years ago) Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code (died 1872)
• 1820 (206 years ago) Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1903)
• 1822 (204 years ago) Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (died 1885)
• 1891 (135 years ago) Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1953)
• 1941 (85 years ago) Fethullah Gülen, Turkish preacher and theologian (died 2024)
• 1967 (59 years ago) Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands

Deaths

• 1521 (505 years ago) Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese sailor and explorer (born 1480)
• 1605 (421 years ago) Pope Leo XI,
• 1882 (144 years ago) Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (born 1803)
• 1915 (111 years ago) Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (born 1872)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (born 1891)
• 1938 (88 years ago) Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (born 1859)
• 1972 (54 years ago) Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana (born 1909)
• 2007 (19 years ago) Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (born 1927)

All 320 events, births and deaths of April 27