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April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar , with 248 days remaining.
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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 £ 10.
1749 - First performance of Handel's Fireworks Music in Green Park, London .
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 - First Barbary War : United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan 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 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 proclaime 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 .
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 )
1806 - Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies , queen of Spain (d. 1878)
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 , American baseball player (d. 1963 )
1899 - Walter Lantz , American cartoonist (d. 1994 )
1904 - Cecil Day-Lewis , Irish poet and writer (d. 1972 )
1906 - Yórgos Theotokás , Greek novelist (d. 1966 )
1913 - Philip Hauge Abelson , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004 )
1916 - Enos Slaughter , American baseball player (d. 2002 )
1918 - Sten Rudholm , Swedish jurist, member of the Swedish Academy
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 )
1927 - Karl Alexander Müller , Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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
1939 - Stanislaw Dziwisz , Polish Cardinal
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
1957 - Eric Bristow , English darts player
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
1971 - Tess Daly , British television presenter
1974 - Johnny Devine , Canadian professional wrestler
1974 - Bear Grylls , American actor
1975 - Chris Carpenter , American baseball player
1976 - Isobel Campbell , Scottish singer and composer
1976 - Walter Pandiani , Uruguayan footballer
1977 - Khalid Zoubaa , French runner
1979 - Will Boyd , American musician
1980 - Christian Lara , Ecuadorian footballer
1980 - Ananda Mikola , Indonesian racing driver
1980 - Marisa Miller , American model
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
1987 - Elliott Shriane , Australian speed skater
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 )
1873 - William Charles Macready , English actor (b. 1793 )
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 )
1941 - Penelope Delta , Greek author (b. 1874 )
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 , British 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 )
2006 - Julia Thorne , ex-wife of John Kerry (b. 1944 )
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