Historical Events
- 1565 1st Spanish settlement in the Philippines forms at Cebu City
- 1865 Steamboat "SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. Most were paroled Union POWs on their way home.
- 1904 The Australian Labor Party under Prime Minister Chris Watson becomes the first Labor government in the world
- 1945 Italian partisans capture Benito Mussolini at Dongo (Lake Como)
- 2005 The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France
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Apr 27 in Film & TV
- 2014 "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" late-night talk and news show fronted by John Oliver premieres on HBO
Apr 27 in Music
- 1810 Ludwig van Beethoven composes his famous piano piece "Für Elise"
Apr 27 in Sport
- 1956 Undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano, retires from the ring
Did You Know?
Blind and impoverished, English poet John Milton sells the copyright of "Paradise Lost" for £10
On April 27, 1667
Mary Wollstonecraft
Samuel Morse
Ulysses S. Grant
Leo Diegel
Sheila Scott
Casey KasemFamous Weddings
- 1597 Astronomer Johannes Kepler marries widow Barbara Müller
- 1862 Chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (28) weds Feozva Nikitichna Leshcheva at Nikolaev Engineering Institute's church in Saint Petersburg, Russia
- 1981 Beatle Ringo Starr (40) weds American actress Barbara Bach (33) at Marylebone Town Hall, London, England
Famous Divorces
- 1927 Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi (53) divorces Beatrice O'Brien after 22 years of marriage
- 1962 American actress Natalie Wood (23) divorces American actor Robert Wagner (30) after almost 5 years of marriage; they remarry in 1972
- 2004 Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry files for divorce from her second husband, R&B singer Eric Benet, six months after the couple separated
More Weddings & Divorces
Ferdinand Magellan
John Trenchard
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Antonio Gramsci
Kwame Nkrumah
Jerry SpringerArticles, Photos and Quiz
First Labour Government
Australia's first Labor ministry, the first in the world
April 27, 1904
Record-Breaking Sheila, the High-Flying Aviator
The Sky's was the limit for Sheila Scott who made three solo flights around the world and was the first pilot, male or female, to fly over the North Pole.
April 27, 1922
Weekly Quiz for April 27 - May 3
Who led the mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1789? What is the name of the world's 1st adhesive stamp? When did Peter Mark Roget 1st publish his Roget's Thesaurus?
