Historical Events on April 27

634 battle between the Muslim Arabs under Khalid b. Walid and the Christian Ghassanid Arabs

1296 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence

1622 battle in the thirty years war

Final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain

1813 battle of the Chilean War of Independence

1835 treaty in the First Carlist War

Bombing of Guernica — 1937 attack by military aircraft during the Spanish Civil War on the Basque village of Guernica

Battle during the Dominican Civil War

One of the battles which occured as part of Borneo confrontation

1975 Spanish Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1975

1978 collapse of a cooling tower under construction in WV, US

Maritime safety convention

1986 hijacking of HBO by American businessman Captain Midnight

1986 San Marino Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1986

Breakup of Yugoslavia — process starting in the late 1980s leading to the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

1993 Zambia national football team plane crash — aviation accident

1994 South African general election — first South African election held under universal suffrage

Israeli military operation against Lebanon in 1996

1997 San Marino Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1997

Organized crime conflict in Laughlin, Nevada

2008 Spanish Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 2008

Suicide attack during the Syrian civil war

Televised crash test experiment

Battle in the Syrian Civil War (March–April 2015)