This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
04/27/1410 John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand 
04/27/1623 Johann Adam Reincken, composer 
04/27/1701 Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardina 
04/27/1707 John Burman, botanist/director botanical gardens 
04/27/1724 Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer 
04/27/1737 Edward Gibson, England, historian (Decline & Fall of Roman Emp) 
04/27/1759 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist (Female Reader)

04/27/1767 Andreas Jakob Romberg, German violinist/composer (Song of Glocke) 
04/27/1791 Samuel Finley Breece Morse, US painter/inventor (telegraph) 
04/27/1802 Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer 
04/27/1803 Alfred Julius Becher, composer 
04/27/1812 Friedrich von Flotow, composer 
04/27/1820 Herbert Spencer, Derby England, Victorian philosopher (Social Static

04/27/1822 Ulysses S Grant, [Hiram], Ohio (R), 18th president (1869-77) 
04/27/1824 William Richard Bexfield, composer 
04/27/1828 Gerben Colmjon, Fries language publisher 
04/27/1835 John Murray Corse, Pitts, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 
04/27/1840 Edward Whymper, 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865) 
04/27/1861 Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer 
04/27/1861 Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte) 
04/27/1865 Emile Erens, Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars) 
04/27/1869 William Victor Harris, composer 
04/27/1871 Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer 
04/27/1873 Harry M O'Connor, entertainer 
04/27/1875 Lumsden Hare, actor (Svengali, Great Impersonation, His Double Life)

04/27/1883 Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter 
04/27/1884 Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids), actor (Bluejackets) 
04/27/1892 Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons) 
04/27/1893 Norman Bel Geddes, Adrian Mich, theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead En

04/27/1894 Nicolas Slonimsky, composer 
04/27/1896 Rogers Hornsby, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cards) 
04/27/1896 Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor (nylon) 
04/27/1900 Walter Lantz, animator (Woody Woodpecker's creator) 
04/27/1902 Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of the Jury, Behind Office Doors) 
04/27/1903 Frank Belknap Long, American writer (Rim of the Unknown) 
04/27/1904 Arthur F Burns, economist/chairman (Federal Reserve Board) 
04/27/1904 Cecil Day-Lewis, England, poet laureate/detective (Nicholas Blake) 
04/27/1904 Ragnar Skrede, Norse poet (Lauvfall) 
04/27/1905 Philip Radcliffe, composer 
04/27/1909 Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (That Infidel Place) 
04/27/1911 Colin Gordon, Ceylon, actor (John-Baron) 
04/27/1911 Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje) 
04/27/1914 Albert Soboult, French historian 
04/27/1916 Jan Rychlik, composer 
04/27/1918 John Scali, newspaperman/correspondant (ABC) 
04/27/1918 Kirby Stone, NYC, jazz combo leader (Baubles Bangles & Beads) 
04/27/1922 Daphne Anderson, actress (Beggar's Opera, Hobson's Choice) 
04/27/1922 Jack Klugman, Phila (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus) 
04/27/1927 Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist 
04/27/1927 John Joseph Moakley, (Rep-D-Massachusetts, 1973-  ) 
04/27/1929 Nina Ponomareva Romaschkova, USSR, discus thrower (Oly-gold-1952, 60

04/27/1930 Roelof F 'Pik' Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs 
04/27/1931 Igor Oistrach, Russian violinist/son of David Oistrach 
04/27/1931 Krzystzof Komeda, composer 
04/27/1932 Anouk Aimee, [Francoise Dreyfus], Paris, actress (8«, La Dolce Vita)

04/27/1932 Casey Kasem, Detroit, radio personality (American Top 40) 
04/27/1932 Charles Adkins, US, light welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1952) 
04/27/1932 Chuck Knox, NFL coach (Rams, Bills, Seahawks) 
04/27/1932 Francois Bayle, composer 
04/27/1932 Petar Ozgijan, composer 
04/27/1937 Phil Jones, newsman (CBS) 
04/27/1937 Sandy Dennis, Nebraska, actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) 
04/27/1938 Earl Anthony, bowler (PBA money champ 1974-6, 1981-3) 
04/27/1939 Jerry Mercer, rocker (April Wine) 
04/27/1939 Judy Carne, Northhampton Engl, comedienne (Laugh-in, Fair Exchange) 
04/27/1941 Friedrich Goldmann, composer 
04/27/1941 Jan D Blaauw, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD) 
04/27/1941 Judith Blegen, Missoula Mont, opera singer (Papagena-Magic Flute) 
04/27/1942 Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-6) 
04/27/1943 Helmut Marko, auto racer (Le Mans Grand Prix) 
04/27/1944 Cuba Gooding, US singer (Everybody Plays the Fool) 
04/27/1944 Herb Pedersen, Berkley Ca, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited) 
04/27/1944 Michael Fish, British TV weatherman 
04/27/1945 August Wilson, US, playwright (Fences, Puilitzer 1987) 
04/27/1947 Ann Peebles, Missouri, singer (I Can't Stand the Rain) 
04/27/1947 Herbie Murrell, US singer (Stylistics-You are My Everything) 
04/27/1947 Pete Ham, rock guitarist/pianist/vocalist (Badfinger-Come & Get It) 
04/27/1947 Peter Gena, composer 
04/27/1948 Katie Pierson, vocals/guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster, Love Shack) 
04/27/1949 Douglas Sheehan, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Ben-Knots Landing) 
04/27/1949 Yoshiaki Fujiwara, wrestler (NJPW/PWF/UWF) 
04/27/195- Cora Ann Mahalick, news anchor (WNYW-TV) 
04/27/1951 Ace Frehley, Bronx NY, heavy metal rocker (Kiss-Beth, Frehley's Come

04/27/1951 Boris Kinberg, rocker (Mink DeVille) 
04/27/1953 Ellen L Shulman Baker, Fayetteville NC, MD/astronaut (STS 34, 50) 
04/27/1959 Sheena Easton, [Shirley Orr], Glasgow Scotland, singer (Sugar Walls)

04/27/1963 Arther van Dijk, drummer (Ivy Green) 
04/27/1963 Schae Harrison, Orange Calif, actress (Darla-Bold & Beautiful) 
04/27/1967 Bridgette Gordon, Deland Fla, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1988) 
04/27/1967 Willem-Alexander CGF, Prince of Orange/son of Queen Beatrix of Neth 
04/27/1969 Mica Paris, rocker (So Good) 
04/27/1971 Hayley Carr, Salzburg Austria, actress (Courtney-As the World Turns)

04/27/1973 Andr‚ Govan, Culver City Calif, actor (Monster Squad) 
04/27/1975 Andr‚ Gower, actor (Baby Makes 5, Fathers & Sons, Mr President) 
04/27/1992 James Duke Mason, son of singer Belinda Carlisle & Morgan Mason 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
04/27/1076 Willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies

04/27/1404 Philips de Stoute, Duke of Burgundy, dies 
04/27/1521 Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives 
04/27/1605 Leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69 
04/27/1656 Gerard van Honthorst, painter, dies at 65 
04/27/1656 John J van Goyen, landscape painter, dies at 60 
04/27/1694 Johan Georg IV, ruler of Saxon (1691-94) 
04/27/1695 Sor Juana In‚s de la Cruz, [Asbaje], Mexican poetress/nun, dies 
04/27/1702 Jean Bart, French captain/sea hero (Escape out of Plymouth), dies 
04/27/1758 Jan Francisci, composer, dies at 67 
04/27/1764 Jaime de Casellas, composer, dies at 73 
04/27/1806 Amalia Frstin Gallitzin, Prussian daughter of Golitsyn, dies at 57 
04/27/1813 Zebulon M Pike, US explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34 
04/27/1871 Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59 
04/27/1872 Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70 
04/27/1881 Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76 
04/27/1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive men), dies 
04/27/1893 John Murray Corse, US general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday 
04/27/1901 Richard Redhead, composer, dies at 81 
04/27/1902 Julius Sterling Morton, who started Arbor Day, dies at 72 
04/27/1915 Alexander N Skrjabin, Russian composer (Prometheus), dies at 43 
04/27/1932 Hart Crane, sailing from Mexico to NY commits suicide 
04/27/1937 Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist, dies at 46 
04/27/1938 Edmond Rubbens, Belgian minister to Germany, dies at 44 
04/27/1950 Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer, dies at 70 
04/27/1950 Karl Straube, German organist/conductor, dies 
04/27/1957 Mario A Gianini, creator of maraschino cherry, dies 
04/27/1959 Gordon Armstrong, inventor of baby incubator, dies 
04/27/1961 Roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67 
04/27/1965 Alan Bunce, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert), dies at 61 
04/27/1965 Edward R Murrow, newscaster (Person to Person), dies at 57 
04/27/1969 Dino Terranova, actor (Young Dillinger), dies 
04/27/1970 Arthur Shields, actor (Your Show Time), dies at 73 
04/27/1972 Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62 
04/27/1973 Libbe de Wal, founder of Humanistic Covenant, dies at 72 
04/27/1975 Nicholas Soussanin, actor (Last Command), dies 
04/27/1977 Stanley Adams, actor (Lillies of the Field, Thunder Alley), dies 
04/27/1978 Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered 
04/27/1982 Tom Tully, actor (Line-up, Shane), dies at 85 
04/27/1984 Piet Kraak, soccer, dies at 63 
04/27/1991 Ken Curtis, actor (Lost, Freckles, Calif Gold Rush), dies at 74 
04/27/1991 Marcus Heeresma, writer/poet (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies 
04/27/1993 Hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90 
04/27/1994 John Preston, US writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at 48 
04/27/1994 Lynne Frederick Unger, actress (Trail of Pink Panther), dies at 39 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
04/27/1509 Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice 
04/27/1518 Treaty of St Truiden: anti-French Trapdoors/Bourgondisch covenant 
04/27/1526 Mogol Kingt Babur beats sultan of Delhi 
04/27/1565 1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms 
04/27/1576 Peace of Beaulieu/Paix de Monsieur 
04/27/1662 Netherlands & France sign military covenant 
04/27/1773 British Parliament passes Tea Act (Boston won't like this) 
04/27/1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli 
04/27/1813 Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed 
04/27/1838 Fire destroys half of Charleston 
04/27/1841 Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening 
04/27/1857 Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited 
04/27/1859 'Pomona' sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard 
04/27/1860 Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry 
04/27/1861 President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus 
04/27/1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US 
04/27/1863 Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL 
04/27/1865 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered 
04/27/1867 Opera 'Rom‚o et Juliette' is produced (Paris) 
04/27/1874 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms 
04/27/1877 Opera 'Le Roi de Lahore' is produced (Paris) 
04/27/1877 President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends 
04/27/1881 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad 
04/27/1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated 
04/27/1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out, Phila A's win 6-0 
04/27/1903 Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens 
04/27/1905 World Exposition opens in Luik 
04/27/1908 4th modern Olympic games opens in London 
04/27/1909 Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown 
04/27/1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting right

04/27/1912 Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands 
04/27/1918 Bkln Dodgers get 1st victory after worse major league start (0-9) 
04/27/1919 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #912 Maritima 
04/27/1920 Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence 
04/27/1921 Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam 
04/27/1922 Fritz Langs 'Dr Mabuse, der Spieler' premieres in Berlin 
04/27/1922 Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR 
04/27/1923 Mussolini govt italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige 
04/27/1924 Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1 
04/27/1931 100ø F (38ø C), Pahala, Hawaii (state record) 
04/27/1932 Apollo asteroid discovered, with a perigee of 2 million miles 
04/27/1933 Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Wash DC 
04/27/1935 Brussel's World Expo opens 
04/27/1935 Yanks pull a 1st inning triple-play & beat Phila A's 9-8 
04/27/1937 1st US social security payment made 
04/27/1937 US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment 
04/27/1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp 
04/27/1942 Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars 
04/27/1942 Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300 
04/27/1943 Lou Jansen & Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland

04/27/1943 Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London 
04/27/1944 Boston Brave Jim Tobin no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-0 
04/27/1945 2nd Republic of Austria forms 
04/27/1945 Italian partisans take Mussolini prisoner 
04/27/1945 US 5th army enters Genua 
04/27/1946 1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed 
04/27/1947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through US 
04/27/1948 Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River 
04/27/1950 South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races 
04/27/1951 Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia 
04/27/1953 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP 
04/27/1953 Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins term 'Pencil neck geek' 
04/27/1956 Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing 
04/27/1959 'Today' show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France) 
04/27/1959 Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR 
04/27/1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee) 
04/27/1960 South Korean pres Syngman Rhee resigns 
04/27/1960 Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm 
04/27/1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays 
04/27/1961 NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio 
04/27/1961 Sierra Leone declares independence from UK 
04/27/1962 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroids #2334 Cuffey & #3474 
04/27/1963 'Jopie' Pengel forms govt in Suriname 
04/27/1963 Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow 
04/27/1964 John Lennon's 'In His Own Write' is published in US 
04/27/1965 RC Duncan patents 'Pampers' disposable diaper 
04/27/1966 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 2nd cello concert 
04/27/1967 Expo '67 opens in Montreal 
04/27/1968 Balt Oriole Tom Phoebus no-hits Boston, 6-0 
04/27/1968 Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands 
04/27/1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Jerry Quarry for heavyweight boxing title 
04/27/1970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2469 Tadjikistan 
04/27/1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth 
04/27/1972 NYC Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported 
04/27/1973 KC Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0 
04/27/1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107 
04/27/1976 Abu Dhabi establishes Arabic Monetary Fund 
04/27/1977 Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa 
04/27/1977 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2234 Schmadel 
04/27/1977 HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in Netherlands 
04/27/1978 14th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 4-3 in 11 
04/27/1978 Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, W Virginia, kills 51 
04/27/1978 Afgh nist n revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup 
04/27/1979 George Harrison releases 'Love Comes to Everyone' 
04/27/1981 1st female soccer official is hired by NASL 
04/27/1981 Beatle Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach [Goldbach] 
04/27/1982 Nordiques 1-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles hold 1-0 lead 
04/27/1982 Trial of John W Hinckley Jr attempted assassin of Reagan, begins 
04/27/1983 Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3509), passing Walter Johnson 
04/27/1984 Asteroid #3625 discovered 
04/27/1984 Cleve Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings 
04/27/1984 Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana 
04/27/1986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO 
04/27/1987 US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering

04/27/1987 US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II 
04/27/1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China 
04/27/1989 Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500 
04/27/1989 Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy 
04/27/1990 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich) 
04/27/1990 Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery 
04/27/1990 Villanova's women set a 6,000 m relay world record of 17:18:10 
04/27/1992 NY Jets finish perfect 5-0 pre-season for 1st time 
04/27/1992 NY Mets trade David Cone to Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Kent 
04/27/1993 Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76 
04/27/1994 29.0øC in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record) 
04/27/1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km) 
04/27/1994 President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in Calif 
04/27/4977 -BC- Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe 
  
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