WHAT HAPPENED ON 27. DECEMBER
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The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations. (27. December 1945)

Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. End of the Dutch East Indies. (27. December 1949)

The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. (27. December 1966)

Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon. (27. December 1968)

Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship. (27. December 1978)

The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. (27. December 1979)

Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St. Peter's Square. (27. December 1983)

Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside Rome, Italy and Vienna, Austria airports. (27. December 1985)

The Romanian Revolution concludes, as the last minor street confrontations and stray shootings abruptly end in the country's capital, Bucharest. (27. December 1989)

Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Airfield which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul, Afghanistan. (27. December 1996)

Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. (27. December 1997)

China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States. (27. December 2001)

Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia. (27. December 2002)

Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet. (27. December 2004)

Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident. (27. December 2007)

Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis. (27. December 2007)

Israel launches 3-week operation on Gaza - Operation Cast Lead. (27. December 2008)

Iranian election protests: On the Day of Ashura in Tehran, Iran, government security forces fire upon demonstrators. (27. December 2009)