This Day In History

April 27th

St. Zita

1509  Pope Julius II excommunicated from Venice.
1521  Protuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan killed by natives in the Phillipines.
1805  US Marines captured the city of Derma on the shores of Tripoli.
1865  The worst steamship disaster in the history of the United States occurred when the The Sultana, carrying approximately 2,300 passengers, the majority being freed Union POWs, exploded while en route to Cairo, Illinios.
1880  Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid.
1937  First Social Security checks distributed.
1938  Geraldine Apponyi became the first American woman to become a Queen when she married King Zog of Albania.
1981  Ringo Starr married Barbara Bach at the Marylebone Registry Office in London.  Paul McCartney and wife, Linda, George Harrison and Harry Nilsson attended.

1737  Historian Edward Gibbon
1791  Samuel F.B. (Finley Breese) Morse born in Charlestown, Massachussettes (inventor who sent the first telegraph message "What hath God wrought?)
1822  18th US President Ulysses Simpson Grant born in Point Pleasant, Ohio 
1900  Animator of Woody Woodpecker Walter Lantz
1922  Actor Jack Klugman
1927  Civil Rights Leader & Wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King
1959  Singer Sheena Easton (Orr)

1957

• Round & Round - Perry Como

• Little Darlin' - The Diamonds

• Mama Look at Bubu - Harry Belafonte

• Young Love - Sonny James

1961

• Runaway - Del Shannon

• Blue Moon - The Marcells

• A Hundred Pounds of Clay - Gene McDaniels

• You Can Depend on Me - Brenda Lee

1970

• ABC - The Jackson 5

• Let It Be - The Beatles

• Love or Let Me Be Lonely - The Friends of Distinction

• Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone? - Charley Pride

1989

• Like a Prayer - Madonna

• She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals

• The Look - Roxette

• The Church on Cumberland Road - Shenandoah

1999

• Slide - Goo Goo Dolls

• No One is Supposed to Be Here - Debra Cox

• Every Morning - Sugar Ray

• Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry

• Baby One More Time - Britney Spears

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