April 27- The Bombing of Guernica

April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining.


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1296    Edward I defeats the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar.

1509    Pope Julius II excommunicates the Italian state of Venice.

1565    The first Spanish settlement in Philippines is established in Cebu City.

1773    British Parliament passes the Tea Act.

1746    King George II wins the battle of Culloden.

1813    American forces capture York (present-day Toronto), the seat of government in Ontario.

1861    President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.

1861    West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from the Union.

1863    The Army of the Potomac begins marching on Chancellorsville.

1865    The Sultana, a steam-powered riverboat, catches fire and burns after one of its boilers explodes. At least 1,238 of the 2,031 passengers--mostly former Union POWs--are killed.

1909    The Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II, is overthrown.

1937    German bombers of the Condor Legion devastate Guernica, Spain.

1941    The Greek army capitulates to the invading Germans.

1950    South Africa passes the Group Areas Act, formally segregating races.

1961    The United Kingdom grants Sierra Leone independence.

1975    Saigon is encircled by North Vietnamese troops.

1978    The Afghanistan revolution begins.

1989    Protesting students take over Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.

Born on April 27

1737    Edward Gibbon, historian (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire).
1791    Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph and the code.
1822    Ulysses S. Grant, Union general during the American Civil War, 18th President of the United States (1869-1877).
1840    Edward Whymper, the first man to climb the Matterhorn.
1900    Walter Lantz, cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker.
1904    Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet, father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
1927    Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://www.historynet.com/tih/tih0427/

In the year 312AD the east and west roman empires met in open combat but not before the Eastern emperor Constantine saw a cross in the sky with the phrase"by this sign you will conquer". And conquer he did in which he brought the whole yolk of the roman empire under his sole domain. Such a victory can attest to the orthodoxy of Christianity being achieved at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD which marked the official recognition and legitimation of Christianity in the eyes of the Roman Empire.

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