What Happened on Apr 27
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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,... Read more
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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... Read more
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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.... Read more
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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... Read more
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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,... Read more
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"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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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"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... Read more
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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... Read more
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"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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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"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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more