Aug 27, 1966: President of France Charles de Gaulle arrived in Addis Ababa for a working visit Aug 27, 1975: Death of Haile Selassie Aug 27, 2011: Bekele Gerba of Oromo People's Congress (OPC) were arrested on suspicion of being members of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). He was released in April 2015 Aug 27, 2019: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed named the winner of the 2019 Hessian Peace Prize