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- 1793
- Present-day Kurmangazy, Kazakhstan, is founded as Ganyushkino.
- 1828
- The Zoological Society of London opens the Zoological Gardens, now known as the London Zoo.
- 1907
- The Piacenza–Agazzano tramway begins service in Piacenza, Italy.
- 1924
- Victory Square is dedicated in Vancouver, British Columbia, as a memorial to World War I soldiers.
- 1931
- In French Indochina, Saigon and Cholon are merged into a single région, Saigon–Cholon.
- 1945
- During World War II, the French, Americans, British, and Soviets occupy Austria and proclaim its independence from Germany.
- 1969
- In the United States, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and most of western Indiana are moved from the Central Time Zone to the Eastern Time Zone, and western Utah are moved from the Pacific Time Zone to the Mountain Time Zone, at 2 o’clock in the morning.
- 2011
- The Rufino J. Cardinal Santos Bell Garden is dedicated at the Manila Cathedral.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on April 27, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on April 27 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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