It happened today – this day in history – December 27
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- Havering elects new mayor - 26/05/2022
- Basildon MP withdraws support for Boris - 26/05/2022
- Six charged in Southend drug investigation - 26/05/2022
1822: Birth of bacteriologist Louis Pasteur.
1831: HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin on board departs England for a survey of South America, a voyage Darwin later said “determined my whole career”.
1862: The Battle of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in the American Civil War.
1904: ‘Peter Pan’ by J. M. Barrie premieres at the Duke of York Theatre, London.
1923: Emperor Hirohito of Japan narrowly evades an assassination attempt by a Korean independence activist.
1924: Albania is declared a dictatorship under Ahmed Beg Zofu.
1934: The Shah of Persia declares Persia now called Iran.
1937: Mae West performs an Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio.
1941: Japan bombs The Philippines capital Manila even though it was declared an “open city”.
1949: Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia.
1966: Bobby Charlton wins the Ballon d’Or.
1968: Apollo 8 returns to Earth.
1978: Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship. On the same day, singer, songwriter and guitarist Chris Bell from Big Star was killed after his car crashed into a telephone pole, he was 27.
1979: After invading Afghanistan two days earlier Soviet forces pull off a coup in Kabul, killing President Hafizullah Amin.
1981: Composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader Hoagy Carmichael died aged 82. On the same day, Australian cricketer Dennis Lillee becomes the leading wicket-taker in test cricket with 310.
1983: Pope John Paul II pardons the man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca).
2007: Former Pakistani president Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a suicide bomber in Rawalpindi.
2008: Singer, songwriter, guitarist, Delaney Bramlett dies in Los Angeles from complications after gall bladder surgery.
2016: Actress Carrie Fisher dies four days after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles, aged 60.
BIRTHDAYS: Mick Jones, guitarist (Foreigner) 75; Janet Street Porter, broadcaster, 73; Gerard Depardieu, actor, 71; Terry Bozzio, drummer, 69; Maryam D’Abo, actress, 59; Duncan Ferguson, former footballer, 48; Emilie de Ravin, actress, 38; Lily Cole, model/actress, 32; Hayley Williams, singer (Paramore) 31; Timothée Chalamet, actor, 24.
