Daily Calendar for Monday, April 27, 2026
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Monday, April 27, 2026
Died
- Ferdinand Magellan (explorer) –
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet) –
- Julius Sterling Morton (Arbor Day founder) –
- Edward R. Murrow (broadcast journalist) –
- Ruth Handler (co-founded Mattel and created Barbie) –
- Red Horner (hockey player, died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) –
Born
- Samuel Morse (inventor) –
- Ulysses S. Grant (18th U.S. president) –
- Rogers Hornsby (baseball player) –
- Coretta Scott King (civil rights leader) –
- Sheena Easton (singer) –
- Chris Carpenter (baseball player) –
- William Moseley (actor) –
Events
- Astronomer John Russell Hind discovered a new variable star in Ophiuchus –
- Steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee –
- A hearing aid was patented by F. D. Clarke and M. G. Foster –
- Fourth modern Olympic games opened in London, England –
- U.S. Soil Conservation Service established by Congress –
- Babe Ruth Day –
- Expo ‘67 was officially opened in Montreal, Quebec, by Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson –
- L. Patrick Gray resigns as acting director of the FBI due to the Watergate fiasco –
- Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, successfully took off on its maiden flight –
- Oh Eun-sun from South Korea became the first woman to scale the world’s 14 highest mountains –
- An odd green light shot across the night sky in southern California. Experts concluded that it likely was a meteor. –
Weather
- The temperature in New York City reached 92 degrees F –
- Pahala, Hawaii, reached 100F (37.8C), which, at the time, was the highest temperature ever recorded for the state –
- Ninety-four degrees F, Hartford, CT –
- 27 inches of snow fell in a 24-hours in Minot, North Dakota –
- Downtown Los Angeles hit 102 degrees F, shattering the April 27 mark of 94 degrees F set in 1881 –