Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created. Date: April 27, 1927 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 27 📅 Events on this day in 1927 📅 On This Day (Today)

The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor. Date: April 27, 1936 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 27 📅 Events on this day in 1936 📅 On This Day (Today)

World War II: German troops enter Athens. Date: April 27, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 27 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)

World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier. Date: April 27, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 27 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today)

World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photograph is taken. Date: April 27, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 27 📅 Events…

Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000. Date: April 27, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 27 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)

Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day. Date: April 27, 1967 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 27 📅 Events on this day in 1967 📅 On This Day (Today)

One hundred nine people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport. Date: April 27, 1974 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 27 📅 Events on this day in 1974 📅 On This Day (Today)

Thirty-seven people are killed when American Airlines Flight 625 crashes at Cyril E. King Airport in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Date: April 27, 1976 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 27 📅 Events on this day in 1976 📅 On This Day (Today)

Willow Island disaster: In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia. Date: April 27, 1978 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 27 📅 Events on this day in…