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Information about April 27

April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian
Calendar, with 248 days remaining.

Events

   * 1124 - David 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 - Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the
     Philippines.
   * 1565 - Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement
     in Philippines.
   * 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
     American tea trade.
   * 1805 - United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of
     Derna (The "shores of Tripoli").
   * 1813 - War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of
     Ontario, York (present day Toronto, Ontario).
   * 1861 - President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
   * 1861 - American Civil War: West Virginia secedes from Virginia.
   * 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.
   * 1897 - Grant's Tomb is dedicated.
   * 1908 - The 1908 Summer Olympics open in London.
   * 1909 - Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded
     by his brother, Murat V.
   * 1941 - World War II: German troops enter Athens.
   * 1947 - Babe Ruth Day is celebrated at Yankee Stadium
   * 1950 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed
     formally segregating races.
   * 1960 - Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
   * 1961 - Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United
     Kingdom.
   * 1967 - Expo '67 opens in Montreal, Quebec.
   * 1972 - Constructive Vote of No Confidence against German Chancellor
     Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances.
   * 1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
   * 1986 - Captain Midnight (John R. MacDougall) hijacks HBO's satellite
     and transmits his own message to HBO viewers.
   * 1997 - Andrew Cunanan murders Jerffrey Trail, beginning a murder spree
     that will last until July and terminate with the murder of fashion
     designer Gianni Versace.

Births

   * 1737 - Edward Gibbon, historian (+ 1794)
   * 1759 - Mary Godwin, feminist, activist, author
   * 1791 - Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of Morse code (+ 1872)
   * 1812 - Friedrich von Flowtow, composer (+ 1883)
   * 1820 - Herbert Spencer, philosopher (+ 1903)
   * 1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States
   * 1888 - Florence La Badie, pioneer actress (+ 1917)
   * 1894 - Nicolas Slonimsky, musicologist and composer (+1995
   * 1896 - Rogers Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1963)
   * 1900 - Martin Beheim-Schwarzenbach, narrator, lyricist and essayist (+
     1985)
   * 1900 - Walter Lantz, cartoonist
   * 1916 - Enos Slaughter, Baseball Hall of Famer
   * 1922 - Jack Klugman, actor
   * 1927 - Coretta King, civil rights activist and widow of the Reverend
     Martin Luther King
   * 1932 - Casey Kasem, American disc jockey
   * 1932 - Anouk Aimˇe, actress
   * 1932 - Gian-Carlo Rota, mathematician and philosopher
   * 1937 - Sandy Dennis, actress (+ 1992)
   * 1945 - August Wilson, playwright
   * 1947 - Ace Frehley, musician ("KISS")
   * 1959 - Sheena Easton, singer
   * 1977 - Crystal Sandidge

Deaths

   * 1124 - King Alexander I of Scotland
   * 1404 - King Philip the Bold
   * 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, explorer
   * 1813 - Zebulon Pike, mountain man, explorer
   * 1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist
   * 1915 - Alexander Scriabin, composer
   * 1932 - Hart Crane, writer (suicide)
   * 1965 - Edward R. Murrow, journalist
   * 1970 - Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque entertainer
   * 1972 - Kwame Nkrumah, first post-independence leader of Ghana
   * 1978 - Sardar Mohammed Daoud, President of Afghanistan
   * 1992 - Olivier Messiaen, composer
   * 1995 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer
   * 1999 - Al Hirt, musician
   * 2002 - George Alec Effinger, science fiction author

Holidays and observances

   * South Africa: Freedom day

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