Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 27

December 27:

• 1831 - Aboard HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin left Plymouth, England on what became an historic expedition to South America.

• 1918 - A public speech by famed Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (pictured) in Poznań sparked the Greater Poland Uprising against Germany.

• 1945 - International ratification of the Bretton Woods Agreement, leading to the establishment of the International Monetary Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

• 1949 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands signed the papers that relinquished sovereignty of most of Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia.

• 1979 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet forces seized control of Kabul and killed Afghan President Hafizullah Amin.

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