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is the 117th day of the year (118th in
leap year
s) in the
Gregorian Calendar
, with 248 days remaining.
April 27
Events
Births
Deaths
Holidays and observances
Liturgical feasts
top
Events
1124
-
David I
becomes
King
of
Scotland
.
1296
-
Battle of Dunbar
: The
Scots
are defeated by
Edward I of England
.
1509
-
Pope Julius II
places the
Italian
state of
Venice
under
interdict
.
1521
-
Battle of Mactan
:
Explorer
Ferdinand Magellan
is killed by natives in the
Philippines
led by chief
Lapu-Lapu
.
1565
-
Cebu
is established becoming the first
Spanish
settlement in the
Philippines
.
1650
- The
Battle of Carbisdale
: A
Royalist
army invades mainland
Scotland
from
Orkney Island
but is defeated by a
Covenanter
army.
1667
- The blind, impoverished
John Milton
sells the copyright of
Paradise Lost
for
£
10.
1773
- The
British Parliament
passes the
Tea Act
, designed to save the
British East India Company
by granting it a
monopoly
on the
North America
n
tea
trade.
1805
-
First Barbary War
:
United States Marines
and
Berber
s attack the
Tripoli
tan city of
Derna
(The "shores of Tripoli" part of the
Marines' hymn
).
1810
-
Beethoven
composes his famous piano piece,
Für Elise
.
1813
-
War of 1812
:
United States
troops capture the
capital
of
Ontario
,
York
(present day
Toronto, Ontario
).
1827
- The Petrel, Australian Coal carrying ship sinks in stormy seas, off Hope Bay, Tasmania.
1840
- Foundation stone for new
Palace of Westminster
,
London
, laid by wife of
Sir
Charles Barry
.
1861
-
President
Abraham Lincoln
suspends the
writ of habeas corpus
.
1865
- The
New York State Senate
creates
Cornell University
as the
state
's
land grant
institution.
1865 - The
steamboat
Sultana
, carrying 2,300 passengers, explodes and sinks in the
Mississippi River
, killing 1,700, most of whom were
Union
survivors of the
Andersonville Prison
.
1904
- The
Australian Labor Party
becomes the first such party to gain
national government
, under
Chris Watson
.
1909
-
Sultan
of
Turkey
Abdul Hamid II
is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother,
Mehmed V
.
1911
- Following the resignation and death of
William P. Frye
, a
compromise is reached to rotate
the office of
President pro tempore of the United States Senate
.
1914
-
Honduras
becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires
copyright
treaty
.
1936
- The
United Auto Workers
(
UAW
) gains autonomy from the
American Federation of Labor
.
1941
-
World War II
:
German
troops enter
Athens
.
1945
-
World War II
: Last
German
troops are expelled from
Finnish Lapland
(the last day of
World War II
going on in
Finland
). The day is the
national war veteran day
in
Finland
.
1945 -
World War II
: The
Völkischer Beobachter
, the newspaper of the
Nazi Party
, ceases publication.
1950
-
Apartheid
: In
South Africa
, the
Group Areas Act
is passed formally segregating races.
1959
- The last
Canadian
missionary
leaves the
People's Republic of China
.
1960
-
Togo
gains independence from
French
-administered
UN trusteeship
.
1961
-
Sierra Leone
is granted its
independence
from the
United Kingdom
, with
Milton Margai
as the first
Prime Minister
.
1972
-
Constructive Vote of No Confidence
against
German Chancellor
Willy Brandt
fails under obscure circumstances.
1974
- 10,000 march in
Washington, D.C.
, calling for impeachment of US
President Nixon
1977
- 28 people are killed in the
Guatemala City air disaster
.
1981
-
Xerox PARC
introduces the
computer mouse
.
1992
- The
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
is proclaimed, comprising of
Serbia
and
Montenegro
.
1994
-
South African general election, 1994
: The first democratic
general election
in
South Africa
, in which black citizens could vote.
1996
- The
Israeli
military operation in
Lebanon
,
Operation Grapes of Wrath
, ends after 16 days of heavy bombing.
2005
- The
Superjumbo
jet aircraft
Airbus 380
makes its first flight from
Toulouse
,
France
.
2006
- Construction begins on the
Freedom Tower
for the new
World Trade Center
in
New York City
.
top
Births
1623
-
Johann Adam Reinken
, German organist (d.
1722
)
1701
- King
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia
(d.
1773
)
1718
-
Thomas Lewis
, Irish-born Virginia settler (d.
1790
)
1737
-
Edward Gibbon
, English historian (d.
1794
)
1755
-
Marc-Antoine Parseval
, French mathematician (d.
1836
)
1759
-
Mary Wollstonecraft
, English author (d.
1797
)
1791
-
Samuel F. B. Morse
, American inventor (d.
1872
)
1812
-
Friedrich von Flotow
, German composer (d.
1883
)
1820
-
Herbert Spencer
, English philosopher (d.
1903
)
1822
-
Ulysses S. Grant
, 18th
President of the United States
(d.
1885
)
1840
-
Edward Whymper
, English mountain climber (d.
1911
)
1850
-
Hans Hartwig von Beseler
, German general (d.
1921
)
1878
-
Frank Alvin Gotch
, American professional wrestler (d.
1917
)
1888
-
Florence La Badie
, Canadian actress (d.
1917
)
1891
-
Sergei Prokofiev
, Russian composer (d.
1953
)
1893
-
Dragoljub Mihailović
, commandant of the
Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland
(d.
1946
)
1893 -
Allen Sothoron
, American baseball player (d.
1939
)
1894
-
Nicolas Slonimsky
, Russian-born musicologist and composer (d.
1995
)
1896
-
Rogers Hornsby
, baseball player (d.
1963
)
1899
-
Walter Lantz
, American cartoonist (d.
1994
)
1904
-
Cecil Day-Lewis
, Irish poet and writer (d.
1972
)
1913
-
Philip Hauge Abelson
, American physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2004
)
1916
-
Enos Slaughter
, baseball player (d.
2002
)
1920
-
Guido Cantelli
, Italian conductor (d.
1956
)
1920 -
Edwin Morgan
, Scottish poet
1920 -
Mark Krasnosel'skii
, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (d.
1997
)
1922
-
Jack Klugman
, American actor
1927
-
Coretta Scott King
, American civil rights activist and wife of
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d.
2006
)
1931
-
Igor Oistrakh
, Ukrainian violinist
1932
-
Anouk Aimée
, French actress
1932 -
Pik Botha
, South African politician
1932 -
Casey Kasem
, American disc jockey
1932 -
Gian-Carlo Rota
, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d.
1999
)
1937
-
Sandy Dennis
, American actress (d.
1992
)
1937 -
Robin Eames
, Northern Irish clergyman
1938
-
Earl Anthony
, American bowler (d.
2001
)
1939
-
Judy Carne
, British actress and comedian
1941
-
Lee Roy Jordan
, American football player
1942
-
Jim Keltner
, American drummer
1944
-
Cuba Gooding, Sr.
, American musician (
The Main Ingredient
)
1945
-
August Wilson
, American playwright (d.
2005
)
1947
-
Ann Peebles
, American singer
1948
-
Kate Pierson
, American singer (
The B-52's
)
1951
-
Ace Frehley
, American musician (
KISS
)
1952
-
George Gervin
, American basketball player
1952
-
Ari Vatanen
, Finnish rally driver
1959
-
Sheena Easton
, Scottish singer
1963
-
Cali Timmins
, Canadian actress
1967
-
Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
1967 -
Jason Whitlock
, American sportswriter
1969
-
Cory Booker
, Mayor of
Newark, New Jersey
1969 -
Darcey Bussell
, British ballerina
1969 -
Mica Paris
, British singer and presenter
1970
-
Kylie Travis
, English actress and model
1974
-
Johnny Devine
, Canadian professional wrestler
1975
-
Chris Carpenter
, baseball player
1976
-
Isobel Campbell
, Scottish singer and composer
1976 -
Walter Pandiani
, Uruguayan footballer
1979
-
Will Boyd
, American musician
1980
-
Zayed Khan
, Indian actor
1980 -
Christian Lara
, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 -
Ananda Mikola
, Indonesian racing driver
1981
-
Fabrizio Faniello
, Maltese singer
1981 -
Patrik Gerrbrand
, Swedish footballer
1984
-
Patrick Stump
, American musician (
Fall Out Boy
)
1986
-
Elena Risteska
, Macedonian singer
1987
-
William Moseley
, British actor
top
Deaths
630
- King
Ardashir III of Persia
1404
-
Philip II, Duke of Burgundy
(b.
1342
)
1521
-
Ferdinand Magellan
, Portuguese explorer (b.
1480
)
1530
-
Jacopo Sannazaro
, Italian poet (b.
1458
)
1599
-
Maeda Toshiie
, Japanese general (b.
1538
)
1605
-
Pope Leo XI
(b.
1535
)
1613
-
Robert Abercromby
, Scottish Jesuit (b.
1532
)
1625
-
Mori Terumoto
, Japanese warrior (b.
1553
)
1656
-
Jan van Goyen
, Dutch painter (b.
1596
)
1694
-
John George IV, Elector of Saxony
(b.
1668
)
1695
-
John Trenchard
, English statesman (b.
1640
)
1702
-
Jean Bart
, French admiral (b.
1651
)
1782
-
William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot
, English politician (b.
1710
)
1813
-
Zebulon Pike
, American frontiersman and explorer (b.
1779
)
1882
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
, American essayist (b.
1803
)
1915
-
Alexander Scriabin
, Russian composer (b.
1872
)
1921
-
Arthur Mold
, English cricketer (b.
1863
)
1932
-
Hart Crane
, American writer (suicide) (b.
1899
)
1936
-
Karl Pearson
, English statistician (b.
1857
)
1952
-
Guido Castelnuovo
, Italian mathematician (b.
1865
)
1965
-
Edward R. Murrow
, American journalist (b.
1908
)
1970
-
Arthur Shields
, Irish actor (b.
1896
)
1972
-
Kwame Nkrumah
, leader of Ghana (b.
1909
)
1977
-
Stanley Adams
, American actor (b.
1915
)
1988
-
David Scarboro
, actor (b. 1968)
1992
-
Olivier Messiaen
, French composer (b.
1908
)
1995
-
Willem Frederik Hermans
, Dutch writer (b.
1921
)
1996
-
William Colby
, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b.
1920
)
1998
-
Carlos Castaneda
, Peruvian-born writer (b.
1925
)
1999
-
Al Hirt
, American trumpeter (b.
1922
)
2000
-
Vicki Sue Robinson
, American singer (b.
1954
)
2002
-
George Alec Effinger
, American author (b.
1947
)
2002 -
Ruth Handler
, American toy manufacturer (b.
1916
)
2002 -
Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza
, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b.
1921
)
top
Holidays and observances
Slovenia
:
Day of Uprising Against Occupation
.
South Africa
:
Freedom day
.
Sierra Leone
:
Republic Day
.
Catalonia
:
Montserrat's Day
(see
Montserrat
).
Rochester, NY
:
Al Franken Day
.
top
Liturgical feasts
Nuestra Señora de Monserrat
Saint Floribert
Saint Liberalis
Saint Mariana
Saint Zita
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