Important Events From This day in History – 27th December

Today in History

• 2007 Benazir Bhutto assassinated

  While campaigning for the upcoming elections in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan was killed by a shooting and the detonation of a suicide bomb.

• 1949 Indonesian Independence

  After four years of revolution and struggle, the Southeast Asian country gained independence. Sukarno signed the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence in August 1945, formally accepted and recognized by the Dutch in 1949.

• 1918 Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–1919 begins

  After a speech by Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Paderewski, the revolt against the Germans began in Pozna. The uprising resulted in the addition of new territory to Poland in the Treaty of Versailles.

• 1845 Anesthesia used for the first time for childbirth

  Dr. Crawford W. Long, a physician from the United States, administered ether to his wife during the birth of their second child. The event changed the way anaesthesia was used in medicine and surgery.

• 1831 Charles Darwin begins his journey on the HMS Beagle

  During this 5-year journey, the English naturalist worked on his Theory of Evolution. In his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, he published the evidence supporting it.