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April 27: Koningsdag in the Netherlands

Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn

630 – Shahrbaraz usurped the throne of the Sasanian Empire from Ardashir III, but was himself killed six weeks later.
1650 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Covenanter forces defeated the Royalists at the Battle of Carbisdale near the village of Culrain, Scotland.
1945 – World War II: The photograph Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn (pictured) was taken after German troops withdrew to Norway at the end of the Lapland War.
1965 – Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation: British forces repelled a surprise Indonesian attack on a base at Plaman Mapu in Sarawak.
2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.

Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1822)
Sheila Scott (b. 1922)
Olivier Messiaen (d. 1992)

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