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Events from History on April 27

1952 : "4 Saints in 3 Acts" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 15 perfs
1968 : "Education of Hyman Kaplan" closes at Alvin NYC after 28 perfs
1965 : "I'm Solomon" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1995 : "Indiscretions" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs
1994 : "Inspector Calls" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 454 performances
1963 : "Jopie" Pengel forms govt in Suriname
1997 : "Little Foxes," opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 56 performances
1991 : "Lucifer's Child" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 28 perfs
1859 : "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard
1992 : "Small Family Business" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 48 perfs
1976 : "So Long 174th St" opens at Harkness Theater NYC for 16 performances
1997 : "Stanley," closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1989 : "Starmites" opens at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC for 60 performances
1986 : "Sweet Charity" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 368 performances
1950 : "Tickets, Please" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 245 performances
1959 : "Today" show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France)
1931 : 100ø F (38ø C), Pahala, Hawaii (state record)
1865 : 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed
1978 : 14th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 4-3 in 11
1960 : 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
1981 : 1st female soccer official is hired by NASL
1953 : 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP
1946 : 1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed
1565 : 1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
1937 : 1st US social security payment made
1994 : 29.0øC in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record)
1945 : 2nd Republic of Austria forms
1990 : 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich)
1978 : Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, W Virginia, kills 51
1978 : Afgh nist n revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup
1993 : Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76
1813 : Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
1924 : Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1
1972 : Apollo 16 returns to Earth
1948 : Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River
1976 : Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi
1962 : Arnold Wesker's "Chips with Everything," premieres in London
1947 : Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through out US
1968 : Balt Oriole Tom Phoebus no-hits Boston, 6-0
1522 : Battle at Bicacca: Charles I & Pope Adrianus VI beat France
1746 : Battle at Culloden Moor: Duke of Cumberland beats "James VIII & III"
1863 : Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL
4977 : -BC- Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe
1981 : Beatle Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach [Goldbach]
1989 : Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
1910 : Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
1942 : Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars
1977 : Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa
1944 : Boston Brave Jim Tobin no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-0
1773 : British Parliament passes Tea Act (Boston won't like this)
1935 : Brussel's World Expo opens
1956 : Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election
1986 : Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
1984 : Cleve Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings
1968 : Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands
1995 : Coors Field in Colo opens - Denver Rockies beats Mets 11-9 in 14
1865 : Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
1963 : Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
1966 : Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd cello concert
1990 : Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery
1857 : Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited
1967 : Expo '67 opens in Montreal
1838 : Fire destroys half of Charleston
1991 : Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio
1694 : Frederik August I "the Strong" becomes monarch of Saksen
1890 : French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Ouss‚bougou West Sudan
1922 : Fritz Langs "Dr Mabuse, der Spieler" premieres in Berlin
1979 : George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone"
1941 : German troops occupy Athens Greece
1994 : Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km)
1897 : Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
1921 : Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam
1977 : HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in Netherlands
1956 : Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
1870 : Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi
1940 : Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1989 : Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500
1841 : Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening
1945 : Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner
1964 : John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in US
1933 : Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Wash DC
1973 : KC Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
1646 : King Charles I flees Oxford
1997 : Las Vegas Senior Golf Classic by TruGreen-ChemLawn
1959 : Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR
1903 : Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens
1943 : Lou Jansen & Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland
1989 : Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
1526 : Mogol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi
1951 : Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia
1923 : Mussolini govt italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige
1961 : NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays
1662 : Netherlands & France sign military covenant
1983 : Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson
1982 : Nordiques 1-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1992 : NY Jets finish perfect 5-0 pre-season for 1st time
1992 : NY Mets trade David Cone to Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Kent
1972 : NYC Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported
1877 : Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris)
1867 : Opera "Rom‚o et Juliette" is produced (Paris)
1984 : Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana
1974 : Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
1576 : Peace of Beaulieu & Paix de Monsieur
1920 : Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence
1881 : Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
1509 : Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice
1861 : President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus
1877 : President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends
1994 : President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in Calif
1965 : RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper
1912 : Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands
1967 : Rocky Marciano retires as undefeated boxing champ
1650 : Scottish general Montrose defeated
1961 : Sierra Leone declares independence from UK
1950 : South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races
1960 : South Korean pres Syngman Rhee resigns
1943 : Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London
1865 : Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 1,547
1909 : Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown
1860 : Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry
1643 : Tirso de Molina's "Bellaco Sois, Gomez," premieres in Madrid
1960 : Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm
1942 : Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
1518 : Treaty of St Truiden: anti-French Trapdoors/Bourgondisch covenant
1982 : Trial of John W Hinckley Jr attempted assassin of Reagan, begins
1945 : US 5th army enters Genua
1987 : US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering
1805 : US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1962 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1937 : US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
1987 : US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II
1990 : Villanova's women set a 6,000 m relay world record of 17:18:10
1861 : West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US
1865 : when river steamer "Sultana" blows up
1874 : White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms
1905 : World Exposition opens in Luik
1953 : Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins term "Pencil neck geek"
1922 : Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR
1935 : Yanks pull a 1st inning triple-play & beat Phila A's 9-8
1828 : Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park London, opens

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