Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 27

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 * 395 – Aelia Eudoxia married Byzantine emperor Arcadius without the knowledge or consent of Rufinus, the Praetorian prefect who had intended for his own daughter to wed the emperor.
 * 1521 – Filipino natives led by chieftain Lapulapu killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan at the Battle of Mactan.
 * 1522 – Four Years' War: The combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeated a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
 * 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British Army regulars defeated Patriot militias in the Battle of Ridgefield, galvanizing resistance in the Connecticut Colony.
 * 1810 – Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor, better known as "Für Elise", one of his most popular compositions.
 * 1904 – Chris Watson became the first prime minister of Australia from the Australian Labor Party.
 * 1949 – In response to the treatment of Lorenzo Gamboa under the White Australia policy, the Philippine House of Representatives passed a bill banning Australians from the country.
 * 1961 – Prime Minister Milton Margai led the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate to independence from the United Kingdom.
 * 1967 – The Expo 67 world's fair opened in Montreal, with 62 nations participating and more than 50 million visitors ultimately attending.
 * 1985 – The black-ball final, one of the most famous snooker matches in history, began between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor (pictured).
 * 2012 – Unknown perpetrators carried out a series of four bombings in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
 * Born/died: | Pope Leo XI |d|1605| Mary Wollstonecraft |b|1759| Margaret Macpherson Grant |b|1834| Ralph Waldo Emerson |d|1882| Sergei Prokofiev |b|1891| Draža Mihailović |b|1893| Rogers Hornsby |b|1896| Coretta Scott King |b|1927| Russell T Davies |b|1963| Cory Booker |b|1969| Vinod Khanna |d|2017 Per Holknekt |b|1960