April 27: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1521 - Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
2. 1539 - Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
3. 1565 - Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
4. 1667 - The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
5. 1810 - Beethoven composes Für Elise.
6. 1861 - American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
7. 1911 - Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
8. 1974 - 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon
9. 1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
10. 2006 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
11. Famous Birthdays: Samuel Morse (American painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code), Ulysses S. Grant (American general and politician, 18th President of the United States), Theodor Kittelsen (Norwegian painter), Irving Adler (American mathematician, scientist, and author), Martin Gray (Polish-French holocaust survivor and author)

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