This day in history
Today is Saturday, April 27, the 118th day of 2024. There are 248 days left in the year.
➤ Birthdays: Actor Anouk Aimee is 92. Rock musician Jim Keltner is 82. Rock singer Kate Pierson (The B-52’s) is 76. R&B singer Herb Murrell (The Stylistics) is
75. Actor Douglas Sheehan is 75. Rock musician Ace Frehley is 73. West Virginia Governor Jim Justice is 73. Pop singer Sheena Easton is 65. Actor James Le Gros is
62. Rock musician Rob Squires (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) is 59. Singer Mica Paris is
55. Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, is 55. Actor David Lascher is 52. Actor Maura West is 52. Actor Sally Hawkins is 48. Country musician John Osborne (Brothers Osborne) is
42. Rock singer-musician Patrick
Stump (Fall Out Boy) is 40. Actor Jenna Coleman is 38. Actor William Moseley is 37. Singer Lizzo is 36.
➤ In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.
➤ In 1941, German forces occupied Athens during World War II.
➤ In 1978, 51 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.
➤ In 1992, Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
➤ In 1994, former president Richard M. Nixon was remembered at an outdoor funeral service attended by all five of his successors at the Nixon presidential library in Yorba Linda, Calif.
➤ In 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 sentence.
➤ In 2011, powerful and deadly tornadoes raked the South and Midwest; more than 60 tornadoes crossed parts of Alabama, leaving about 250 people dead and thousands of others injured in the state.
➤ In 2015, rioters plunged part 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 in police custody; the Baltimore Orioles’ home game against the Chicago White Sox was postponed because of safety concerns.
➤ In 2018, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made history by crossing over to South Korea to meet with President Moon Jaein; 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.
➤ In 2019, a gunman opened fire inside a synagogue near San Diego as worshippers celebrated the last day of Passover, killing a woman and wounding the rabbi and two others. (John Earnest, a white supremacist, has been sentenced to both federal and state life prison terms.)