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

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