📜 This Day in History
December 27
537The reconstructed Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was inaugurated; built as a church, it later became a mosque and a museum.- 1831HMS Beagle departed Plymouth, England, on a voyage to South America that established Charles Darwin as a naturalist.
- 1939A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck central Turkey, destroying 90 per cent of the buildings in the area, and causing over 32,000 deaths.
- 1985The body of murdered American primatologist Dian Fossey was discovered inside her cabin in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.
- 2007Riots erupted in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the presidential election—the first event in a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.
- 2024Acting president and prime minister of South Korea Han Duck-soo was impeached by the National Assembly.
