27 December
Notable Births
Ander Barrenetxea (footballer)
b. 2001
Spanish footballer (born 2001)
Brock Purdy
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Luka Garza
b. 1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Mads Juel Andersen
b. 1997
Danish footballer (born 1997)
Vachirawit Chivaaree
b. 1997
Thai actor, singer and entrepreneur (born 1997)
Ana Konjuh
b. 1997
Croatian tennis player (born 1997)
Jang Gyu-ri
b. 1997
South Korean actress (born 1997)
Timothée Chalamet
b. 1995
American and French actor (born 1995)
Nick Chubb
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Ghislain Konan
b. 1995
Ivorian footballer (born 1995)
Olivia Cooke
b. 1993
British actress (born 1993)
Maicel Uibo
b. 1992
Estonian decathlete
Chloe Bridges
b. 1991
American actress (born 1991)
Michael Morgan (rugby league, born 1991)
b. 1991
Australia international rugby league footballer
Beth Potter
b. 1991
Scottish long-distance runner and triathlete
Danny Wilson (footballer, born 1991)
b. 1991
Scottish footballer
Max Lindholm
b. 1990
Finnish former ice dancer (born 1990)
Jonathan Marchessault
b. 1990
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Milos Raonic
b. 1990
Canadian tennis player (born 1990)
Marlene Dietrich
b. 1901
German and American actress (1901–1992)
Notable Deaths
Greg Gumbel
d. 2024
American sportscaster (1946–2024)
Olivia Hussey
d. 2024
British actress (1951–2024)
Charles Shyer
d. 2024
American director, screenwriter and producer (1941–2024)
Lee Sun-kyun
d. 2023
South Korean actor (1975–2023)
Gaston Glock
d. 2023
Austrian engineer and businessman (1929–2023)
Remilia
d. 2019
American professional gamer (1995–2019)
Frank Blaichman
d. 2018
Polish resistance fighter
Carrie Fisher
d. 2016
American actress and writer (1956–2016)
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
d. 2016
Sri Lankan politician (1933–2016)
Stein Eriksen
d. 2015
Norwegian alpine skier (1927–2015)
Dave Henderson
d. 2015
American baseball player (1958–2015)
Ellsworth Kelly
d. 2015
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
Meadowlark Lemon
d. 2015
American basketball player, actor, and minister (1932–2015)
Alfredo Pacheco
d. 2015
Salvadoran footballer (1982-2015)
Stevie Wright
d. 2015
Australian singer (1947–2015)
Ben Ammi Ben-Israel
d. 2014
Founder of the African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem (1939–2014)
Ulises Estrella
d. 2014
Ecuadorian poet
Mohamad Chatah
d. 2013
Lebanese economist and diplomat
Gianna D'Angelo
d. 2013
American opera singer
John Matheson
d. 2013
Canadian politician
On This Day in History
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2025
An estimated €30 million were stolen from a Sparkasse bank in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
2025 Gelsenkirchen heist
2019
Bek Air Flight 2100 crashes during takeoff from Almaty International Airport in Almaty, Kazakhstan, killing 13.
Bek Air Flight 2100
2009
Iranian election protests: On the Day of Ashura in Tehran, Iran, government security forces fire upon demonstrators.
2009 Iranian presidential election protests
2008
Operation Cast Lead: Israel launches three-week operation on Gaza.
Gaza War (2008–2009)
2007
Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident.
Prime minister
2007
Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.
Mombasa
2004
Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
Radiation
2002
Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.
2002 Grozny truck bombing
1999
Burger King and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission order a recall of plastic Poké Ball containers after they are determined to be a choking hazard.
Burger King
1997
Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Billy Wright (loyalist)
1996
Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Airfield which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul, Afghanistan.
Taliban
1991
Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751 crashes in Gottröra in the Norrtälje Municipality in Sweden, injuring 92.
Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751
1989
The Romanian Revolution concludes, as the last minor street confrontations and stray shootings abruptly end in the country's capital, Bucharest.
Romanian revolution
1985
Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.
Palestinians
1983
Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St. Peter's Square.
Pope John Paul II
1978
Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.
Spanish transition to democracy
1968
Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital crewed mission to the Moon.
Apollo program
1968
North Central Airlines Flight 458 crashes at O'Hare International Airport, killing 28.
North Central Airlines Flight 458
1966
The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
Cave of Swallows
1949
Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. End of the Dutch East Indies.
Indonesian National Revolution