Today in History
Listings for Thursday, April 27, 2023.
Birthdays:
- 1791 Samuel F. B. Morse, dit-dah-dit
- 1820 Herbert Spencer, English Victorian philosopher
- 1822 Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877)
- 1896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.
- 1900 Walter Lantz, Woody Woodpecker's creator
- 1922 Jack Klugman
- 1927 Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist
- 1932 Anouk Aimee
- 1937 Sandy Dennis
- 1959 Sheena Easton
Events:
- Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania.
- TV-Turnoff Week
- 1565 First Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City.
- 1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song and legend) is dedicated.
- 1937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
- 1945 Founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
- 1946 Radar first installed aboard a commercial ship.
- 1960 First atomic-electric drive submarine launched (Tullibee).
- 1986 Captain Midnight (John MacDougall) interrupts an HBO broadcast.
- 4977 BC - Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe.
That's all for today.
