Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 27

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 * 537 – The reconstructed Hagia Sophia (pictured) in Constantinople was inaugurated; built as a church, it later became a mosque and a museum.
 * 1831 – HMS Beagle departed Plymouth, England, on a voyage to South America that established Charles Darwin's standing as a naturalist.
 * 1904 – The stage play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, by Scottish author J. M. Barrie, premiered in London.
 * 1918 – A public speech by the Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań sparked the Greater Poland uprising against Germany.
 * 1929 – Joseph Stalin announced the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class", beginning a period of political repression against prosperous peasants.
 * 1932 – New York City's Radio City Music Hall opened with the world's largest auditorium at the time.
 * 1979 – Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet troops stormed Tajbeg Palace outside Kabul and killed Afghan president Hafizullah Amin and his 100–150 elite guards.
 * 1985 – The body of murdered American primatologist Dian Fossey was discovered inside her cabin in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.
 * 1997 – Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright was assassinated in HM Prison Maze by members of the Irish National Liberation Army.
 * 2007 – Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated while leaving a Pakistan Peoples Party political rally at Liaqat National Bagh in Rawalpindi.
 * 2007 – Riots erupted in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the presidential election—the first event in a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.
 * 2008 – Citing rocket attacks from Palestinian armed groups, Israel launched a surprise attack against the Gaza Strip, opening the three-week Gaza War.
 * Born/died this day: | Sviatoslav II of Kiev |d|1076| Ghalib |b|1797| Agda Meyerson |d|1924|Chyna |b|1969 Amy Vanderbilt |d|1974|Carrie Fisher |d|2016 Kjell Eriksson (radio presenter) |b|1975