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1509Apr 27Pope Julius II excommunicated the republic of Venice. The pope lifted the ban in February 1510.
1646Apr 27King Charles I fled Oxford.
1650Apr 27Scottish general Montrose was defeated.
1662Apr 27Netherlands and France signed a treaty of alliance in Paris.
1677Apr 27Colonel Jeffreys became the governor of Virginia.
1702Apr 27Jean Bart (51), French captain, sea hero (Escape out of Plymouth), died
1848Apr 27Slave trade was abolished in the French colonies.
1857Apr 27Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited.
1867Apr 27Charles Gounod’s Opera “Romeo et Juliette” was produced in Paris.
1870Apr 27Heinrich Schliemann discovered Troy.
1877Apr 27Jules Massenet’s Opera “Le Roi de Lahore” was produced in Paris.
1920Apr 27Pogrom leader Petljoera (Petlyura) declared Ukraine Independence.
1922Apr 27Fritz Lang’s “Dr Mabuse, der Spieler” premiered in Berlin.
1931Apr 27Hawaii recorded a record 100 degrees in Pahala.
1932Apr 27American poet Hart Crane (b.1899) drowned after jumping from a steamer while en route to New York. In 1967 R.W.B. Lewis (d. 2002) authored  “The Poetry of Hart Crane.”
1941Apr 27Judith Blegen, opera singer (Papagena-Magic Flute), was born in Missoula, Mont.
1945Apr 27August Wilson, US playwright (Fences, Pulitzer 1987), was born.
1946Apr 271st radar installation aboard a commercial ship was installed.
1955Apr 27The US government suspended the use of all Salk vaccine manufactured by Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, Ca., pending the investigation of 7-14 cases among children inoculated with the company’s vaccine.
1956Apr 27Light heavyweight boxer Rocky Marciano announced his retirement. Marciano, with 43 knockouts to his credit, retired having won every fight in his professional career.
1961Apr 27United Kingdom granted Sierra Leone independence.
1968Apr 27In the Netherlands part of a group of Catholic radicals left their own party and formed the Political Party of Radicals (PPR). The party dissolved in 1991.
1975Apr 27Saigon was encircled by North Vietnamese troops. NVA fire rockets into downtown civilian areas as the city erupts into chaos and widespread looting.
1982Apr 27The trial of John W. Hinckley Jr., who had shot four people, including President Reagan, began in Washington. The trial ended with Hinckley’s acquittal by reason of insanity.
1986Apr 27A video pirate calling himself “Captain Midnight” interrupted a movie on Home Box Office with a printed message protesting de-scrambling fees. CaptainMidnight turned out to be John R. MacDougall of Florida, who was fined and placed on probation.
1990Apr 27The aperture door of the Hubble Space Telescope was opened by ground controllers as the space shuttle Discovery, which had carried the Hubble into orbit, prepared to return home.
1991Apr 27A group of 250 Kurds became the first refugees to move into a new US-built camp in northern Iraq.
1993Apr 27After a hiatus of more than four months, Israeli and Arab delegates resumed Middle East peace talks in Washington, D.C.
1995Apr 27Former Orange County, Calif., Treasurer Robert Citron pleaded guilty to six counts of defrauding investors in the county investment pool.
1996Apr 27William Egan Colby (76), CIA Director, disappeared while canoeing near his waterfront home in southern Maryland. His body was found 8 days later. In 2003 John Prados authored “Lost Crusador,” a biography of Colby.
1997Apr 27President Clinton, along with former presidents George Bush and Jimmy Carter, helped polish gritty city streets in Philadelphia as they launched the Summit for America’s Future, a three-day gathering on community service.
1998Apr 27In Japan a court ruled that the government must compensate 3 South Korean women forced into sexual slavery during WW II, and awarded the women $2,300 each.
1999Apr 27A week after the Columbine High School massacre, President Clinton called for new gun control measures, saying, “People’s lives are at stake here.”
2000Apr 27New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani disclosed that he had prostate cancer. He later bowed out of the US Senate race against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
2001Apr 27The US GDP was reported at 2% growth due to buying by American consumers. The DJIA rose 117 to 10,810. The Nasdaq rose 40 to 2,075.
2002Apr 27Derek Lowe (news) of the Boston Red Sox pitched a no-hitter against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 10-0.
2003Apr 27Kevin Millwood pitched his first career no-hitter to lead the Philadelphia Phillies over the San Francisco Giants 1-0.
2004Apr 27The Chinese government said it had shut down a U.S. visa information center in Shanghai because of complaints of overcharging.
2005Apr 27Touting technology as a way to solve the country’s energy problems, President Bush called for construction of more nuclear power plants and urged Congress to give tax breaks for fuel-efficient hybrid and clean-diesel cars.
2006Apr 27The Bush administration announced that it had reached a tentative agreement with Canada to settle the long-running trade battle over softwood lumber.
2006Apr 27Israeli aircraft fired missiles at two cars in Gaza packed with rockets, killing one Islamic Jihad militant and critically wounding another.
2007Apr 27President Bush and visiting Japanese PM Shinzo Abe threatened stronger punitive actions against North Korea if it reneged on a promise to padlock its sole nuclear reactor.
2007Apr 27An apparent US missile strike killed 4 people in Saidgi, a village in the North Waziristan of Pakistan near the Afghan border.
2008Apr 27A North Korean defector tried to set himself on fire to halt the Olympic torch relay through Seoul, while thousands of police guarded the flame from protesters blasting China’s treatment of North Korean refugees. A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea for the first time in a decade across the heavily fortified border dividing the countries.
2009Apr 27America, Canada, Europe and Japan promised to cooperate on validating alternatives to using animals in medical research. An estimated 50-100 million animals were used in research annually around the world.
2010Apr 27It was reported that Fritz Maytag, owner of the SF-based Anchor Brewing Co., has sold the company to the Griffon Group, run by Keith Greggor and Tony Foglio.
2011Apr 27President Barack Obama produced a detailed Hawaii birth certificate in an extraordinary attempt to bury the issue of where he was born and confirm his legitimacy to hold office.
2012Apr 27In Albany, Indiana, the remains of Stephanie Marie Kirk (35), last seen on March 25, were found at the home of William Gibson. He was being held in connection with the death last week of Christine Whitis (75) and the death of Karen Hodella (44), whose body was found in 2003.
2013Apr 27The US military said that 100 of 166 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have joined the hunger strike. 19 were receiving liquid nutrients through a nasal tube to prevent dangerous weight loss. Lawyers put the number of hunger strikers at 130.
Source: Timelines of History 

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