A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, December 27th!
| 1831 | HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, departs from Plymouth. It will eventually visit the Galapagos Islands where Darwin will form his theories on evolution. |
| 1862 | Union General William Rosecrans’ army begins moving slowly toward Murfreesboro. |
| 1913 | Charles Moyer, president of the Miners Union, is shot in the back and dragged through the streets of Chicago. |
| 1915 | In Ohio, iron and steel workers go on strike for an eight-hour day and higher wages. |
| 1927 | The musical “Show Boat,” with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City. |
| 1932 | Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City.  |
| 1933 | Josef Stalin calls tensions with Japan a grave danger. |
| 1939 | A series of vicious earthquakes take 11,000 lives in Turkey. |
| 1941 | Japanese bombers attack Manila, despite its claim as an open city. |
| 1944 | General George S. Patton’s Third Army, spearheaded by the 4th Armored Division, relieves the surrounded city of Bastogne in Belgium. |
| 1945 | The International Monetary Fund and the Bank for Reconstruction and Development are created. |
| 1947 | The new Italian constitution is promulgated in Rome. |
| 1947 | The children’s TV program “Howdy Doody” debuted on NBC. |
| 1949 | Queen Juliana of the Netherlands granted sovereignty to Indonesia after more than 300 years of Dutch rule.  |
| 1950 | The United States and Spain resume relations for the first time since the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. |
| 1956 | Segregation on buses in Tallahassee, Florida is outlawed. |
| 1968 | The United States agrees to sell F-4 Phantom jets to Israel. |
| 1968 | Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the moon, returned to Earth. |
| 1970 | “Hello, Dolly!” closed on Broadway after a run of 2,844 performances. |
| 1979 | President Hafizullah Amin of Afghanistan is ousted and murdered in a coup backed by the Soviet Union, beginning a war that will last more than 10 years.  |
| 1983 | President Reagan takes all responsibility for the lack of security in Beirut that allowed a terrorist on a suicide mission to kill 241 Marines. |
| 1984 | Four Polish officers are tried for the slaying of Reverend Jerzy Popieluszko. |
| 1985 | Naturalist Dian Fossey, who had studied gorillas in the wild, was found hacked to death at a research station in Rwanda. |
| 2001 | U.S. officials announced that Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners would be held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
| 2004 | Viktor Yushchenko won a runoff in Ukraine’s presidential election, completing the country’s “Orange Revolution.” |
| 2005 | Indonesia’s Aceh rebels formally abolished their 30-year armed struggle for independence under a peace deal born out of the 2004 tsunami. |
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