TODAY IN HISTORY
On April 27, 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.
In 1813, the Battle of York took place in Canada during the War of 1812.
In 1941, German forces occupied Athens during World War II.
In 1992, Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
In 2011, more than 60 tornadoes crossed parts of Alabama, leaving about 250 people dead and thousands of others injured.
In 2015, rioters plunged part of Baltimore into chaos 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.
a gunman opened fire inside a synagogue near San Diego as worshippers celebrated Passover, killing a woman and wounding the rabbi and two others.