What happened on 27 April?

8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1859 Italian unification (Risorgimento) Political and social movement that consolidated the various states of the Italian peninsula into a single kingdom under the House of Savoy, completed with the capture of Rome in 18
2. 1859 Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins Conventional start of Italian unification (Risorgimento).
3. 1994 South Africa's first multi-racial elections ANC wins a landslide; Nelson Mandela becomes president.
4. 1986 Pripyat is evacuated Thirty-six hours after the explosion, 1,200 buses empty the plant's model town of 49,000 people in three and a half hours. Residents are told to bring papers and food for three day
5. 1521 Magellan killed at Mactan Playing kingmaker in the Philippines, Magellan wades ashore with sixty men to punish a chief named Lapulapu who refuses Spanish suzerainty — and dies in the surf under spears, his
6. 1891 Born: Sergei Prokofiev Russian composer; died on the same day as Stalin.
7. 1822 Born: Ulysses S. Grant Commanding general of the Union Army in the final years of the American Civil War; accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox in 1865. Served as 18th President of the United States (18
8. 1967 Expo 67 Fifty million visitors to man-made islands in the St Lawrence for the centennial world's fair — the high-water mark of Canadian self-confidence.