This Day In European History

27th December

Events
1831 Charles Darwin leaves England on the HMS Beagle.
1927: Trotsky is thrown out of the Soviet Communist Party.

Births
1571: Johannes Kepler, German astronomer.
1714: George Whitefield, English preacher.
1773: George Cayley, British aerodynamics founder.
1822: Louis Pasteur, French scientist.
1901: Marlene Dietrich, German actress.

Deaths
1585: Pierre de Ronsard, French poet.
1707: Jean Mabillon, French scholar.
1724: Thomas Guy, English founder of Guy's hospital.
1832: Gustav Eiffel, French engineer.

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