Daily Calendar for April 27th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• Freedom Day (South Africa)

1520s

• Died 1521: Ferdinand Magellan (explorer)

1790s

• Born 1791: Samuel Morse (inventor)

1820s

• Born 1822: Ulysses S. Grant (18th U.S. president)

1860s

• 1865: Steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee

1880s

• 1880: A hearing aid was patented by F. D. Clarke and M. G. Foster

• Died 1882: Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet)

1890s

• Born 1896: Rogers Hornsby (baseball player)

1900s

• Died 1902: Julius Sterling Morton (Arbor Day founder)

• 1908: Fourth modern Olympic games opened in London, England

1920s

• Born 1927: Coretta Scott King (civil rights leader)

1930s

• 1935: U.S. Soil Conservation Service established by Congress

1940s

• 1947: Babe Ruth Day

1950s

• Born 1959: Sheena Easton (singer)

1960s

• Died 1965: Edward R. Murrow (broadcast journalist)

• 1967: Expo '67 was officially opened in Montreal, Quebec, by Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson

1970s

• 1973: L. Patrick Gray resigns as acting director of the FBI due to the Watergate fiasco

• Born 1975: Chris Carpenter (baseball player)

1980s

• Born 1987: William Moseley (actor)

2000s

• Died 2002: Ruth Handler (co-founded Mattel and created Barbie)

• 2005: Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger plane, successfully took off on its maiden flight

2010s

• 2010: Oh Eun-sun from South Korea became the first woman to scale the world’s 14 highest mountains

• 2016: An odd green light shot across the night sky in southern California. Experts concluded that it likely was a meteor.