27 April is the 117th day of the year (118th in Leap Year s) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 248 days remaining.
- 1124 - David I becomes King of Scotland .
- are defeated by Edward I Of England .
- 1509 - Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under Interdict .
- 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 .
- army invades mainland Scotland from the Orkney Islands but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
- 1667 - The blind, impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of '' Paradise Lost '' for £ 10.
- 1773 - The British Parliament passes the Tea Act , designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a Monopoly on the North America n Tea trade.
- and Berber s attack the Tripoli tan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' Hymn ).
- 1810 - Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise .
- troops capture the Capital of Ontario , York (present day Toronto, Ontario ).
- 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 '', carrying 2,300 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River , killing 1,700, most of whom were Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison .
- 1897 - Grant's Tomb is dedicated.
- 1904 - The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain National Government , under Chris Watson .
- 1906 - Salem, Ohio celebrates its Centennial . {Link without Title}
- 1908 - The 1908 Summer Olympics open in London .
- 1909 - Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Murat 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 .
- troops enter Athens .
- 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 - The Völkischer Beobachter , the newspaper of the Nazi Party , ceases publication.
- 1947 - Babe Ruth Day is celebrated at Yankee Stadium .
- , the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
- 1959 - The last Canadian Missionary leaves 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 .
- 1964 - " Love Me Do " by the Beatles was #1 for one week in the US .
- 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
- 1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the Computer Mouse .
- 1986 - Captain Midnight ( John R. MacDougall ) hijacks HBO's Satellite and transmits his own message to HBO viewers.
- 1992 - The Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia is proclaimed, comprising of Serbia and Montenegro .
- in South Africa , in which black citizens vote.
- 1996 - The Israeli military operation in Lebanon , Operation Grapes Of Wrath , ends after 16 days of heavy bombing.
- 1997 - Andrew Cunanan murders Jeffrey Trail , beginning a murder spree that will last until July and terminate with the murder of Fashion Designer Gianni Versace .
- 2005 - The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus 380 makes its first flight from Toulouse , France .
- 2006 - Construction on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City officially begins.
- 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 )
- 1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft , English activist and author (d. 1797 )
- 1791 - Samuel F. B. Morse , American inventor (d. 1872 )
- 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 )
- 1878 - Frank Alvin Gotch , American professional wrestler (d. 1917 )
- 1888 - Florence La Badie , Canadian actress (d. 1917 )
- 1891 - Sergei Prokofiev , Russian composer (d. 1953 )
- 1894 - Nicolas Slonimsky , Russian-born musicologist and composer (d. 1995 )
- 1896 - Rogers Hornsby , baseball player (d. 1963 )
- 1899 - Walter Lantz , American cartoonist (d. 1994 )
- 1904 - Cecil Day-Lewis , Irish poet and writer (d. 1972 )
- 1913 - Philip Hauge Abelson , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004 )
- 1916 - Enos Slaughter , baseball player (d. 2002 )
- 1920 - Guido Cantelli , Italian conductor (d. 1956 )
- 1920 - Edwin Morgan , Scottish poet
- 1922 - Jack Klugman , American actor
- 1927 - Coretta Scott King , American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2006 )
- 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
- 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
- 1959 - Sheena Easton , Scottish singer
- 1963 - Cali Timmins , Canadian actress
- 1967 - Prince Willem-Alexander Of The Netherlands
- 1969 - Darcey Bussell , British ballerina
- 1969 - Mica Paris , British singer and presenter
- 1970 - Kylie Travis , English actress and model
- 1976 - Isobel Campbell , Scottish singer, cellist and composer
- 1976 - Walter Pandiani , Uruguayan footballer
- 1984 - Patrick Stump , American musician ( Fall Out Boy )
- 1987 - William Moseley , British actor
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 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 - Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza , Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. 1921 )
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