April 27
1521 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in a fight with natives of the Philippines.
1805 - U.S. Marines captured Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.
1810 - Ludwig van Beethoven wrote one of his most famous piano compositions, the Bagatelle in A-minor.
1813 - The Battle of York took place in Upper Canada during the War of 1812 as a U.S. force defeated the British in present-day Toronto before retreating.
1865 - The worst steamship disaster in the history of the United States occurred when there was an explosion aboard the Sultana; more than 1,400 were killed.
1941- German forces occupied Athens, Greece during World War II.
1961 - Sierra Leone gained independence from Great Britain.
1973 - Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray resigned after it was revealed he had destroyed files removed from the safe of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt.
1978 - Fifty-one construction workers plunged to their deaths when a scaffold inside a cooling tower at the Pleasants Power Station site in West Virginia fell 168 feet to the ground.
1987 - Austrian President Kurt Waldheim was barred from entering the United States as he was accused of aiding the Nazi effort in executing thousands of Jews in World War II.
1992 - Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1993 - Eritrea declared its independence.
1994 - President Richard Nixon was remembered at an outdoor funeral service attended by all five of his successors (presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton) at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California.
2010 - Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was extradited from the United States to France, where he was later convicted of laundering drug money and received a seven-year prison sentence.
2011 - Powerful and deadly tornadoes ranked the South and Midwest; more than 60 twisters crossed parts of Alabama, leaving about 250 people dead and thousands of others injured.
2013 - North Korea announced that Kenneth Bae, an American missionary detained for nearly six months, was being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government (Bae was later sentenced to 15 years of hard labor; he was released in November 2014 along with another American, Matthew Miller).
2015 - Rioters plunged parts of Baltimore into chaos, torching a pharmacy, setting police cars ablaze and throwing bricks at officers hours after thousands attended a funeral for Freddie Gray, a Black man who died from a severe spinal injury he'd suffered while in police custody; the Baltimore Orioles home game against the Chicago White Sox was postponed due to safety concerns.
2018 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made history by crossing over to South Korea to meet with President Moon Jae-in; it was the first time a member of the Kim dynasty had set foot on southern soil since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
2018 - The Republican-led House Intelligence Committee released a lengthy report concluding that it found no evidence that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign.
2018 - The members of the Swedish pop supergroup ABBA announced that they had recorded new material for the first time in 35 years, with two new songs.
2022 - The United States and Russia carried out an unexpected prisoner exchange in a time of high tensions over the war in Ukraine, trading a Marine veteran jailed by Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America.
Birthdays
30 - Brittney Lee Saunders (reality star)
31 - Allison Iraheta (singer)
34 - Emily Rios (actress)
34 - Martha Hunt (model)
35 - Lizzo (singer)
36 - William Moseley (actor)
37 - Jenna Coleman (actress)
38 - Sheila Vand (actress)
40 - Ari Graynor (actor)
40 - Francis Capra (actor)
47 - Sally Hawkins (actress)
51 - Maura West (actress)
51 - David Lascher (actor)
61 - James Le Gros (actor)
64 - Sheena Easton (singer)
74 - Douglas Sheehan (actor)
75 - Kate Pierson (singer)
75 - Si Robertson (reality star)
91 - Anouk Aimee (actress)
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Today in Sports History - April 27
1938 - A colored baseball was used for the first time in any baseball game. The ball was yellow and was used between Columbia and Fordham Universities in New York City.
1947 - "Babe Ruth Day" was celebrated at Yankee Stadium an throughout Major League Baseball for the ailing star.
1956 - Rocky Marciano retired as the undefeated heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
1961 - The NFL officially recognizes the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
1982 - The New England Patriots select Texas defensive end Kenneth Sims with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1983 - Pitcher Nolan Ryan surpassed Walter Johnson's career strikeout record of 3,508 that had stood since 1927.
2017 - The Cleveland Browns select Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1521 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in a fight with natives of the Philippines.
1805 - U.S. Marines captured Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.
1810 - Ludwig van Beethoven wrote one of his most famous piano compositions, the Bagatelle in A-minor.
1813 - The Battle of York took place in Upper Canada during the War of 1812 as a U.S. force defeated the British in present-day Toronto before retreating.
1865 - The worst steamship disaster in the history of the United States occurred when there was an explosion aboard the Sultana; more than 1,400 were killed.
1941- German forces occupied Athens, Greece during World War II.
1961 - Sierra Leone gained independence from Great Britain.
1973 - Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray resigned after it was revealed he had destroyed files removed from the safe of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt.
1978 - Fifty-one construction workers plunged to their deaths when a scaffold inside a cooling tower at the Pleasants Power Station site in West Virginia fell 168 feet to the ground.
1987 - Austrian President Kurt Waldheim was barred from entering the United States as he was accused of aiding the Nazi effort in executing thousands of Jews in World War II.
1992 - Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1993 - Eritrea declared its independence.
1994 - President Richard Nixon was remembered at an outdoor funeral service attended by all five of his successors (presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton) at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California.
2010 - Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was extradited from the United States to France, where he was later convicted of laundering drug money and received a seven-year prison sentence.
2011 - Powerful and deadly tornadoes ranked the South and Midwest; more than 60 twisters crossed parts of Alabama, leaving about 250 people dead and thousands of others injured.
2013 - North Korea announced that Kenneth Bae, an American missionary detained for nearly six months, was being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government (Bae was later sentenced to 15 years of hard labor; he was released in November 2014 along with another American, Matthew Miller).
2015 - Rioters plunged parts of Baltimore into chaos, torching a pharmacy, setting police cars ablaze and throwing bricks at officers hours after thousands attended a funeral for Freddie Gray, a Black man who died from a severe spinal injury he'd suffered while in police custody; the Baltimore Orioles home game against the Chicago White Sox was postponed due to safety concerns.
2018 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made history by crossing over to South Korea to meet with President Moon Jae-in; it was the first time a member of the Kim dynasty had set foot on southern soil since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
2018 - The Republican-led House Intelligence Committee released a lengthy report concluding that it found no evidence that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign.
2018 - The members of the Swedish pop supergroup ABBA announced that they had recorded new material for the first time in 35 years, with two new songs.
2022 - The United States and Russia carried out an unexpected prisoner exchange in a time of high tensions over the war in Ukraine, trading a Marine veteran jailed by Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America.
Birthdays
30 - Brittney Lee Saunders (reality star)
31 - Allison Iraheta (singer)
34 - Emily Rios (actress)
34 - Martha Hunt (model)
35 - Lizzo (singer)
36 - William Moseley (actor)
37 - Jenna Coleman (actress)
38 - Sheila Vand (actress)
40 - Ari Graynor (actor)
40 - Francis Capra (actor)
47 - Sally Hawkins (actress)
51 - Maura West (actress)
51 - David Lascher (actor)
61 - James Le Gros (actor)
64 - Sheena Easton (singer)
74 - Douglas Sheehan (actor)
75 - Kate Pierson (singer)
75 - Si Robertson (reality star)
91 - Anouk Aimee (actress)
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Today in Sports History - April 27
1938 - A colored baseball was used for the first time in any baseball game. The ball was yellow and was used between Columbia and Fordham Universities in New York City.
1947 - "Babe Ruth Day" was celebrated at Yankee Stadium an throughout Major League Baseball for the ailing star.
1956 - Rocky Marciano retired as the undefeated heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
1961 - The NFL officially recognizes the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
1982 - The New England Patriots select Texas defensive end Kenneth Sims with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1983 - Pitcher Nolan Ryan surpassed Walter Johnson's career strikeout record of 3,508 that had stood since 1927.
2017 - The Cleveland Browns select Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
