What Happened On April 27

What Happened On Apr 27 Events

1521 Apr 27 Ferdinand Magellan dies
Rajah Humabon of Cebu was friendly towards Magellan and the Spaniards, both he and his queen Hara Amihan were baptized as Christians. Afterward, Rajah Humabon and his ally Datu Zula convi...
1777 Apr 27 Battle of Ridgefield
1822 Apr 27 Ulysses S. Grant Is Born
On April 27, 1822, military leader and U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. A quiet, unassuming, and keenly intelligent man, Grant rose to national prominence...
1865 Apr 27 Destruction of the SS Sultana
It was the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history, more costly than even the April 14, 1912 sinking of the Titanic, when 1,517 people were lost. But because the Sultana went down when it...
1895 Apr 27 Harper's Weekly Carries A Story On The World Transportation Commission's Visit To Ceylon
On April 27, 1895, the popular periodical Harper's Weekly carried a story on the World Transportation Commission's visit to Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka. The article was part of an illus...
1908 Apr 27
to 1908 Oct 31
 Games of the IV Olympiad held in London, England
The 1908 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the IV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in 1908 in London, England. These games were originally scheduled...
1914 Apr 27 "Caught in a Cabaret" (film) is Released
Caught in a Cabaret is a short film from 1914 starring Charlie Chaplin and the film's writer/director Mabel Normand. Chaplin plays a waiter who fakes being a Greek Ambassador to impress a...
1927 Apr 27 Coretta Scott Is Born
Coretta Scott was born April 27, 1927, in Heiberger, near Marion, Alabama. She spent her childhood on her parents' farm in Heiberger. The farm had been in the family since the Civil War, ...
1940 Apr 27 Heinrich Himmler Establishes a Concentration Camp at Auchwitz
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps and extermination camps, operational during World War II. The camp took its German name from the hosting town o...
1940 Apr 27 Ronald Regan Appears as Marty Allen in "An Angel from Texas"
...An Angel from Texas (1940), reunited the Reagans with Eddie Albert and Wayne Morris, their co-stars in the popular military academy comedy Brother Rat (1938). It's a pleasant enough fa...
1941 Apr 27 Athens Falls to Axis Powers
Few Greeks cooperated with the Nazis and most chose either the path of passive acceptance or active resistance. Active Greek resistance started immediately as many Greeks fled to the hill...
1942 Apr 27
to 1942 Apr 29
 German Luftwaffe Bombs Norwich as Part of the Baedeker Blitz
The Baedeker Blitz or Baedeker raids were a series of Vergeltungsangriffe ("retaliatory raids") by the German air force on English cities in response to the bombing of the erstwhile Hanse...
1942 Apr 27 Pryor Tornado
This war boom town today dug out of the ruins of an angry tornado that ripped down Main street, leaving $2,000,000 in property damage, 70 known dead and an estimate by the state highway p...
1946 Apr 27 "Shoeshine" Is Released
Shoeshine (Italian: Sciuscià) is a 1946 film and the first major work directed by Vittorio De Sica. In it, two Shoe shine boys get into trouble with the police after trying to find the mo...
1965 Apr 27 Edward R. Murrow Dies
Murrow was a heavy smoker throughout his life and was rarely seen without his trademark Camel cigarette, smoking around 60 to 65 a day, or roughly three packs. See It Now was the first te...
1977 Apr 27 "The Man Who Loved Women" Is Released
The Man Who Loved Women (French: L'Homme qui aimait les femmes) is a 1977 French comedy/drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey and Nelly Bor...
1978 Apr 27 The Saur Revolution: The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan Siezes Power
The Saur Revolution is the name given to the Communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan takeover of political power in Afghanistan on 27 April 1978. It is said that this movement ...
1978 Apr 27 Willow Island Disaster
At about 10 a.m. on April 27, 1978, workers began raising the day's second bucket of concrete up 166 feet to Lift 29. Each day, they poured another 5-foot lift to build the second of two ...
1979 Apr 27 Five Prisoners Released from Soviet Union in Exchange for Two Soviet Spies
On 20 May 1978, three Soviet foreign intelligence officers were arrested in New Jersey while collecting an agent's report from a secret cache. One of them, the attaché of the Soviet missi...
1987 Apr 27 David Bowie releases Never Let Me Down
Never Let Me Down is an album by David Bowie, released April 1987. It drew some of the harshest criticism of Bowie's career, condemned by critics as a faceless piece of product and ignore...
1995 Apr 27 "The Fusilli Jerry" - Season 6 Episode 21 of Seinfeld First Airs
"The Fusilli Jerry" is the 107th episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 21st episode of the 6th season. It aired on April 27, 1995. Plot Summary: On the street Elaine tells Je...
1998 Apr 27 Blind Guardian releases Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Nightfall in Middle-Earth is a concept album by Blind Guardian, released in 1998. It is also Blind Guardian's sixth studio album. The album is based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmari...
2004 Apr 27 City of Heroes Launches
City of Heroes (CoH) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the superhero comic book genre, developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCsoft. The game was launch...
2004 Apr 27 Jay-Z releases "99 Problems" single
"99 Problems" is the third single released by American rapper Jay-Z in 2003 from The Black Album. It reached number thirty on the U.S Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The track was produc...
2005 Apr 27 America's Next Top Model Cycle 4 Episode 9
The girls were driven to an empty parking lot, where their challenge for the week required them to show their "wild side" and posed as animals. The girls were told that they were flying t...
2006 Apr 27 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 15-3
CLEVELAND -- Now that we have incontrovertible proof Josh Beckett will not go undefeated in his first season with the Red Sox -- the next thing you know, Jonathan Papelbon is going to blo...
2007 Apr 27 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 11-4
NEW YORK -- When Yankee Stadium began to close in on him last night, Daisuke Matsuzaka didn't have the same option as Tom Werner, the Red Sox chairman who tells the story of how he once l...
2007 Apr 27 Cleveland Indians defeat Baltimore Orioles, 5-4
CLEVELAND -- This time, it took only four pitches for the Orioles' suddenly vulnerable bullpen to turn a lead into a sizable deficit and for an important slump-breaking win to turn into a...
2007 Apr 27 Hannah Montana Season 2 Episode 5
Miley wakes up with laryngitis. In order to preserve Hannah's career, she needs to be operated. While in bed, sleeping, Miley's mother (played by Brooke Shields)visits her and tells Miley...
2007 Apr 27 The Jonas Brothers Participate In The Disney Channel Games
In August, the Jonas Brothers made several appearances on television. On August 17, they guest-starred in an episode of the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana titled "Me and Mr. Jonas and...
2008 Apr 27 Chicago White Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 6-1
A recap of the Orioles' 6-1 loss to the White Sox yesterday: KONERKO GOUGES GUTHRIE Jeremy Guthrie maintained that he had pretty good command yesterday, but he would certainly like ...
2008 Apr 27 Tampa Bay Rays defeat Boston Red Sox, 3-0
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - This wasn't the same as Yaz and Lonny and Boomer and the other Sons of Dick Williams back in '67, huddling around a transistor radio in the Red Sox clubhouse and wa...
2008 Apr 27 The Taliban Attempts to Assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a Military Parade in Kabul
Hamid Karzai (Pashto: حامد کرزی - Ḥāmid Karzay; born 24 December 1957) is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on December 7, 2004. He became a dominant political ...
2009 Apr 27 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 3-1
CLEVELAND - The base paths of Progressive Field, with only minor efforts needed by the grounds crew to drag the infield, looked nearly as pristine in the eighth inning as they did in the ...
2009 Apr 27 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Briefing on the Investigation of Swine Flu
THANK YOU, THIS IS GLEN NOWAK. I′M DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATIONS AT THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, AND WE WELCOME YOU TODAY ON THE BRIEFING FOR THE SWINE INFLUENZA. DR. BE...
2009 Apr 27 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Issues Travel Health Warning
CDC Recommendations At this time, CDC recommends that U.S. travelers avoid all nonessential travel to Mexico. Changes to this recommendation will be posted at http://wwwn.cdc.gov/trav...
2009 Apr 27 Detroit Tigers defeat New York Yankees, 4-2
DETROIT - With the frenetic atmosphere of Fenway Park in the rearview mirror following their weekend sweep at the hands of the Red Sox, the Yankees were hoping to find their groove Monday...
2009 Apr 27 First Swine Flu Death in the United States
The United States confirmed the first death from swine flu outside of Mexico on Tuesday, adding urgency in the race to contain the influenza that has spread to more than seven countries. ...
2009 Apr 27 Milwaukee Brewers defeat Pittsburgh Pirates, 10-5
The Milwaukee Brewers haven't forgotten how to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates. And if the Pirates want to go down fighting, a none-too-happy Ryan Braun said the Brewers would be happy to ...
2009 Apr 27 New York City High School Closed Due to Swine Flu
Tests show that eight students at a Queens high school are likely to have contracted the human swine flu virus that has struck Mexico and a small number of other people in the United Stat...
2009 Apr 27 New York Mets defeat Florida Marlins, 7-1
It was a rare sight: a Mets starter not named Johan Santana coming through with a solid performance. But with most of the rotation on notice from Jerry Manuel to start turning in quality ...
2009 Apr 27 President Obama Says Swine Flu is Cause for Concern, Not Panic
U.S. President Barack Obama says the threat of a swine flu epidemic is cause for concern, but not alarm. There have been 149 suspected swine flu deaths in Mexico but none in the United St...
2009 Apr 27 Red Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 3 -1, in Game 19; extend winning streak to 11
The Red Sox entered the ninth inning in a scoreless tie, thanks to stellar performances by Tim Wakefield and Cliff Lee. Enter Jason Bay, who connected on a three-run blast that extended B...
2009 Apr 27 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Atlanta Braves, 3-2
ATLANTA - The last time Joel Piñeiro won four consecutive starts occurred during the Seattle Mariners' Summer of '03, when Ryan Franklin shared a berth in the M's rotation. Before this...
2009 Apr 27 Tampa Bay Rays defeat Minnesota Twins, 7-1
Fans of baseball and -- not to get too far off track -- the seven deadly sins will surely want to know that tonight's Twins game against Tampa Bay marks the first of nine "All You Can Eat...
2009 Apr 27 Texas Rangers defeat Baltimore Orioles, 6-4
Stepping up For the third consecutive game, the Orioles needed a long reliever to come in and keep the Rangers off the scoreboard, and for the third consecutive time they got it. Denni...
2009 Apr 27 White House Apologizes for Air Force One's Low Flight Over Lower Manhattan
"Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York ...
2009 Apr 27 World Health Organization - Swine Influenza - Update 3
The current situation regarding the outbreak of swine influenza A(H1N1) is evolving rapidly. As of 27 April 2009, the United States Government has reported 40 laboratory confirmed human c...
2010 Apr 27 Baltimore Orioles defeat New York Yankees, 5-4
BALTIMORE - Cesar Izturis had three RBIs, Nolan Reimold singled in the tiebreaking run during a three-run sixth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the New York Yankees 5-4 on Tuesday ...
2010 Apr 27 Boston Celtics defeat Miami Heat, 96-86
It seemed as if there was a different face each game of the Celtics-Heat series. In Game 1 it was Tony Allen, who had been cast to the outskirts of the Celtics rotation during the seas...