April 27th is
International Girls in Information and
Telecommunication Technologies Day
Mantanzas Mule Day
Poem In Your Pocket Day
Prime Rib Day
Take Our Daughters and
Sons to Work Day
World Tapir Day
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MORE! Ferdinand Magellan, Mary Wollstonecraft and Walter Lantz, click
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS
Netherlands – Koningsdag
(King’s Day – birthday)
Mayotte – Abolition Day
Philippines –
Manila: ASEAN Summit
Sierra Leone – Independence Day
Slovenia – Resistance Day
South Africa – Freedom Day
Togo – Independence Day
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On This Day in HISTORY
711 – Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula
1521 – Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed in the Philippines
1673 – Claude Gillot born, French painter, engraver and theatrical designer
The Italian Comedy: Metamorfosi D’Arlecchino by Claude Gillot
1744 – Nikolay Novikov born, Russian writer, philanthropist and social critic
1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft born, English writer and women’s rights advocate
1791 – Samuel F. B. Morse born, American inventor and artist, who invented the single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor of More Code
1820 – Herbert Spencer born, English sociologist and philosopher
1822 – Ulysses S. Grant born, commander of the Union armies during the American Civil War, and 18th U.S. President
1840 – Edward Whymper born, English artist and mountaineer; first to climb the Matterhorn
1896 – Wallace Hume Carothers born, American chemist; developed nylon
1899 – Walter Lantz born, American film animator; creator of “Woody Woodpecker”
1906 – Alice Dunnigan born, 1st African-American journalist accredited to cover Congress (1947) and the White House, Supreme Court and State Department, documented Klan actions when no “white” newspaper covered them
1927 – Coretta Scott King born, civil rights, human rights, and peace activist, a leader in struggle for racial equality and became active in the Women’s and LGBT rights movements; founded the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change
1957 – Ricky Nelson’s first record, “Teenager’s Romance,” is released
1972 – Apollo 16 returned to Earth after a manned voyage to the moon
1982 – John W. Hinckley Jr. goes on trial in Washington, D.C., for shooting President Ronald Reagan, a Secret Service agent, a police officer, and nearly killing Ptrss Secretary James Brady; he will be acquitted by reason of insanity
1987 – The Justice Department bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the U.S., saying he aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II
1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in Belgrade by the Republic of Serbia and its lone ally, Montenegro
1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons
1992 – Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
2006 – Construction begins on a 1,776-foot building on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City
2011 – President Barack Obama produces a detailed Hawaii birth certificate, which should have settled the issue of where he was born
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