April 27
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1865 - The worst steamship disaster in the history of the United States occurred on this day. The Sultana, carrying approximately 2,300 passengers, the majority being freed Union POWs, exploded while en route to Cairo, IL. Neither the cause of the explosion nor the final count of the dead (estimated at between 1,450 and 2,000) was ever determined. Today, the Sultana disaster remains the worst of its kind.1880 - Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid.
1899 - The Western Golf Association was founded -- in Chicago, IL.
1938 - Geraldine Apponyi was the first American woman to become a Queen. She married King Zog of Albania.
1938 - Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded I Hadn’t Anyone ’til You for Victor Records. Jack Leonard was featured as vocalist.
1941 - German tanks rolled into Athens, Greece after British forces rolled out.
1942 - A tornado destroyed most of Pryor, Oklahoma. The twister killed 52 people, and injured several hundred more.
1947 - Organized baseball celebrated Babe Ruth Day. Major-league parks throughout the U.S. and Japan participated. A crowd of 60,000 fans honored their hero in ceremonies at Yankee Stadium in New York City. Ruth, who was dying of throat cancer, managed to put in an appearance to thank his former club.
1956 - Rocky Marciano relinquished his crown as heavyweight boxing champ when he retired from boxing this day.
1959 - Lloyd Price’s song, Personality, was released. Price had 10 songs that made it to pop music charts in the 1950s through early 1960s.
1961 - Great Britain granted independence to the West-African country of Sierra Leone on this day.
1965 - Newscaster Edward R. Murrow (Person to Person, See It Now), died of lung and brain cancer in Pawling, NY. He was 57 years old.
1968 - Muhammad Ali’s successor was finally decided after an eight-month runoff. Jimmy Ellis defeated Jerry Quarry of Atascadero, CA for the World Boxing Association’s heavyweight title.
1973 - Steve Busby of Kansas City lead the Royals to a 3-0, no-hit shutout of the Detroit Tigers.
1976 - Maxine Nightingale received a gold record for the single, Right Back Where We Started From. Nightingale was in the productions of Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell and Savages in the early ’70s. Right Back Where We Started From was a number two hit for two weeks in 1976.
1978 - 51 construction workers plunged to their deaths when a scaffold inside a cooling tower at the Pleasants County power station site in West Virginia fell 168 feet to the ground.
1981 - Former Beatle Ringo Starr married Barbara Bach at the Marylebone Registry Office in London. Paul McCartney and wife Linda, George Harrison and Harry Nilsson were in attendance.
1983 - Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros broke Walter Johnson’s strikeout record. He struck out the 3,509th batter of his career. The Astros won 4-2 over Montreal. Johnson’s record had been in the books for 55 years before being eclipsed by ‘The Ryan Express’.
1985 - We Are the World, the album by USA for Africa, hit #1 in the U.S. The star-studded album stayed at number one for three weeks. Featured on the album were Dan Aykroyd, Harry Belafonte, Lindsey Buckingham, Kim Carnes, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Sheila E., Bob Geldof, Hall and Oates, James Ingram, Jackie Jackson, LaToya Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Michael Jackson, Randy Jackson, Tito Jackson, Al Jarreau, Waylon Jennings, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Huey Lewis and the News, Kenny Logins, Bette Midler, Willie Nelson, Jeffery Osborne, Steve Perry, The Pointer Sisters, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick and Stevie Wonder.
1989 - Some 150,000 students and workers marched through central Beijing, cheered and singing for democracy.
1992 - Serbia, along with Montenegro, became the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY).
1994 - Virginia executed Timothy Spencer, a condemned killer, in the first case in which DNA testing was used to obtain a conviction.
1997 - The Tsing Ma Bridge that connects the mainland part of Hong Kong with the islet of Chek Lap Kok was opened. The Tsing Ma Bridge was hailed as the longest road-and-rail suspension bridge in the world.
1998 - A Pentagon panel said remains of the Vietnam veteran in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery should be exhumed to determine whether they belonged to Air Force First Lieutenant Michael J. Blassie, as his family believed. The remains were later positively identified as those of Blassie.
1999 - Al Hirt, the ‘King of the Trumpet’, died in New Orleans at age 76. Hirt’s many accompishments include a 1965 standing-room-only concert at Carnegie Hall and a Grammy for his hit, Java. Hirt also played at the inaguration of president John F. Kennedy.
2000 - Islamic hard-liners continued their crackdown on Iran’s reformist press. The closing of three more newspapers, including the daily run by the brother of President Khatami, brought to 16 the total number of publications shut down during the week.
2001 - These movies opened in U.S. theatres: The Dish, starring Sam Neill, Patrick Warburton, Kevin Harrington and Tom Long; Driven, with Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Gina Gershon and Kip Pardue; The Foresaken, featuring Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr and Carrie Snodgress; One Night at McCool’s, starring Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, John Goodman, Paul Reiser, Michael Douglas, Reba Mcentire and Andrew Silverstein a.k.a. Andrew Dice Clay; and Town & Country, with Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Garry Shandling, Andie Macdowell, Natassja Kinski, Jenna Elfman, Josh Hartnett, Tricia Vessey, Charlton Heston and Marian Seldes.
2001 - The U.S. National Arbor Day Foundation announced that the oak tree was nominated as the national tree a sanctioned voting process. (In 2005, an act of Congress made the oak tree the official tree of the U.S.)
2002 - South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth arrived at the international space station for an eight-day, seven-night space trip that cost him $20 million.
2002 - A biker brawl at Harrah’s Casino in Laughlin, Nevada, left three bikers dead and twelve injured and/or wounded.
2003 - Philadelphia pitcher Kevin Millwood got his first career no-hitter as the Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants 1-0. It was the Phils’ first no-hitter in 12 years.
2004 - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi arrived in Brussels, on his first trip to Europe in 15 years. Gadhafi was seeking ‘full normalization’ of relations and membership in the aid and trade program the Eurpean Union was running with countries around the Mediterranean, including Israel.
2005 - The Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, completed its maiden flight from Toulouse-Blagnac airport in France.
2005 - Vladimir Putin became the first Russian leader to visit Israel, capping a historic rapprochement between the two nations that once faced each other as bitter enemies.
2006 - The George Bush (II) administration announced that it had reached a tentative agreement with Canada to settle a long-running trade battle over softwood lumber.
2006 - Construction began at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. The site was rebuilt with several new skyscrapers, a transportation hub, a museum and a memorial to those killed in the attacks.
2007 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: The Condemned, starring Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Robert Mammone, Victoria Mussett, Rick Hoffman, Christopher Baker, Samantha Healy, Madeline West and Luke Pegler; The Invisible, with Justin Chatwin, Marcia Gay Harden, Margarita Levieva and Chris Marquette; Kickin’ It Old Skool, starring Jamie Kennedy, Maria Menounos, Christopher McDonald, Mig?el Nuñez, Aris Alvarado, Bobby Lee, Debra Jo Rupp, Alan Ruck, Michael Rosenbaum and Vivica Fox; and Next, with Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann, Tory Kittles and Peter Falk.
2007 - The U.S. dollar slid to a record low against the euro. The worst American economic growth in four years raised concern that troubles in the housing market would spread and throw the U.S. into a recession before the year was out.
2008 - Mars Inc. of McLean, VA, together with Berkshire Hathaway agreed to acquire Wrigley Co. of Chicago, IL, for $23 billion. (The deal closed on Oct 6, 2008.)
2009 - The U.S. declared a “public health emergency” after twenty cases of swine flu were confirmed in the country. And governments around the world acted to stem a possible pandemic, as the virus that had killed 149 people in Mexico and spread to North America was confirmed to have reached Europe.
2009 - Five members of the U.S. Congress were arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC as they protested the expulsion of aid groups from Darfur. Democratic Representatives Keith Ellison of Minnesota, Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, John Lewis of Georgia, Donna Edwards of Maryland and Lynn Woolsey of California. Hundreds of thousands of people had died in Darfur in western Sudan in what the U.S. State Department described as genocide.
2010 - Germany opened its first offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Opening day arrived after years of delays and technical problems. The $340-million test field, Alpha Ventus, consisted of 6 wind turbines at the start of the project.
2010 - Oh Eun-sun, a 44-year-old South Korean mountaineer, became the first woman to scale all fourteen of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks. Oh crawled on all fours to reach her 14th summit, Annapurna (in Nepal). This, 13 years after she scaled her first Himalayan mountain, Gasherbrum II, in 1997. She had scaled Everest in 2004.
2010 - It was grand opening day for the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) casino in Singapore. The $5.5 billion luxury resort was built, owned and operated by the Las Vegas Sands Corp.
2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama released his detailed Hawaii birth certificate and resolved the so-called “birther” controversy.
2011 - Dozens of tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system wiped out neighborhoods across a wide swath of the South, killing at least 350 people. It was the deadliest outbreak of twisters in some 40 years. 254 people died in Alabama, 34 in Mississippi, 34 in Tennessee, 15 in Georgia, 8 in Arkansas, 5 in Virginia and one in Kentucky. Especially hard hit was Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where some 40 people were killed.
2012 - Film debuting in U.S. theatres: The Five-Year Engagement, with Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Alison Brie, Rhys Ifans, Chris Pratt and Chris Parnell; The Pirates! Band of Misfits, featuring the voices of Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, Jeremy Piven, Brian Blessed, Lenny Henry and Salma Hayek; Safe, with Jason Statham, Chris Sarandon, Anson Mount, James Hong, Reggie Lee and Robert John Burke; The Raven, starring John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally and Oliver Jackson-Cohen; Bernie, starring Matthew McConaughey, Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Veronica Orosco, Tommy G. Kendrick, Rick Dial and Mona Lee Fultz; and Headhunters, with Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Julie R. Ølgaard.
2012 - Thousands of South Koreans flocked to the opening show of Lady Gaga’s global tour. Fans donned outrageous outfits in honor of the U.S. pop diva. Initially, the show was deemed suitable for anyone over the age of 12, but the Korean Media Rating Board upped the age of entry to 18. Christian groups called for the concert to be cancelled saying it was ‘pornographic’ and promoted homosexuality.
2013 - The U.S. military reported that 100 (of 166) prisoners at Guantanamo Bay had joined a hunger strike. 19 were receiving liquid nutrients through a nasal tube to prevent dangerous weight loss. The strike started in early February as a protest over guards confiscating personal items as well as desperation over indefinite detention without charges for more than a decade.
2014 - U.S. and Philippine officials announced a 10-year agreement to allow a larger U.S. military presence in the Philippines. The agreement came some 20 years after U.S. forces stationed at Philippine bases were pushed out. And it came as China strengthened its maritime presence in disputed areas in the South China Sea.
2015 - Maryland Governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency and called in the National Guard to restore order to Baltimore. Rioters had plunged parts of the city into chaos, torching a pharmacy and setting cars on fire. All of this followed the funeral of Freddie Gray, who died on April 19 after suffering a fatal spinal injury while in police custody.
2016 - A member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) reported that thousands of Nepali women were being trafficked every year as sex workers and bonded laborers. China and South Korea were emerging as new destinations for the captive women.
2017 - NASA reported that its unmanned Cassini spacecraft has survived its plunge between the rings of Saturn and, after briefly going dark for the flyby, was communicating again with Earth.
2017 - The Kremlin warned that an opposition protest planned for April 29 would be illegal and police would treat anyone who showed up as criminals. Russian police raided the Moscow office of Open Russia, an organization founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a top foe of President Vladimir Putin. Open Russia, which was attempting to help opposition candidates and political prisoners, had alled for the protest.
2018 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: Avengers: Infinity War, starring Karen Gillan, Elizabeth Olsen and Josh Brolin; Adventures in Public School, with Judy Greer, Daniel Doheny and Siobhan Williams; Backstabbing for Beginners, starring Theo James, Ben Kingsley and Jacqueline Bisset; Disobedience, with Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz and Alessandro Nivola; Duck Butter, starring Alia Shawkat, Laia Costa and Mae Whitman; In the Last Days of the City, with Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy and Hanan Youssef; and Kings, starring Halle Berry, Daniel Craig and Lamar Johnson.
2018 - The European Union announced a key breakthrough in efforts to completely ban pesticides that harm bees and their crop pollination. The ban on the three prevalent neonicotinoid pesticides took effect at the end of 2018.
2018 - Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged stepped-up cooperation with India during a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Xi Jinping said he hoped the meeting would open new chapters of China-India relations. Narendra Modi said the two sides should increase mutual understanding, give play to the wisdom of the two countries and work together to deal with global issues and challenges. This, amid tensions along their contested border and a rivalry for influence with their smaller neighbors.
2019 - ‘Yellow vest’ demonstrations in France -- for the 214th consecutive week -- challenged the economic policies of President Emmanuel Macron.
2019 - Retired Lt. Col. Oliver North announced that he would not serve a second term as president of the National Rifle Association. This followed his failed attempt to force out NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre. (LaPierre had sent a letter to board members outlining that North was trying to oust him by threatening to release “damaging” information about him to the NRA’s board.)
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)Oil prices slumped again on concerns over scarce storage capacity, especially in the U.S., and global economic doldrums from the pandemic. 2)Turkish officials said 402 people had been detained in the previous 42 days for sharing “false and provocative” social media postings concerning the coronavirus outbreak. An Interior Ministry official said the social media users were detained for attempting to “cause panic” over the coronavirus with posts that, among other things, accused the government of not doing enough to curb the outbreak or of lying about the numbers of deaths or infections. 3)The United Nations human rights office voiced concern about more than a dozen countries that had declared pandemic states of emergency where police have arrested or detained hundreds of thousands of people and killed others. “Emergency powers should not be a weapon governments can wield to quash dissent, control the population, and even perpetuate their time in power,” said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.
2020 - The Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. government had to live up to its promise to shield insurance companies from some of the risks they took in participating in the health law exchanges. Insurers who accused the government of a “bait and switch” claimed they were owed $12 billion -- and the Court agreed.
2021 - President Joe Biden signed an executive order increasing to $15 an hour the minimum wage for U.S. federal contractors.
2021 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to approve a SpaceX plan to deploy Starlink satellites at a lower earth orbit -- as SpaceX began offering space-based broadband internet service to people who lacked access.
2022 - The U.S and Russia swapped prisoners, with former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed being released in exchange for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko. The release ended a three-year ordeal for Reed, who was sentenced to nine years in prison in July 2020 for endangering the “life and health” of Russian police officers in an altercation. Reed and his family denied the charges.
2022 - The U.S said it was providing some $200 million in aid for the Horn of Africa to address humanitarian needs caused by drought and regional conflict. Parts of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia faced the driest conditions in more than 40 years.
2022 - A mechanical jumper developed by UC Santa Barbara engineering professor Elliot Hawkes (and collaborators) was capable of achieving the tallest height — roughly 100 feet (30 meters) — of any jumper to date, engineered or biological. What, you didn’t know there were mechanical jumpers? Neither did we...
2023 - Former VP Mike Pence appeared before the federal grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. Pence testified for more than five hours about his interactions with Trump leading up to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021.
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Birthdays on This Day April 27
1737 - Edward Gibbon
historian, author: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; died Jan 16, 17941759 - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
author: Vindication of the Rights of Women; died Sep 10, 17971791 - Samuel F.B. (Finley Breese) Morse
inventor: electromagnetic telegraph: 1st telegraph message: “What hath God wrought?”; died Apr 2, 18721822 - Ulysses S. Grant
18th U.S. President [1869-1877]; married to Julia Dent [three sons, one daughter]; Lt. General in command of all Union armies during U.S. Civil War; nickname: Hero of Appomattox; died July 23, 18851882 - Jessie Redmon Fauset
author: There is Confusion, Plum Bun, The Chinaberry Tree, Comedy, American Style; literary editor: Crisis [NAACP publication]; co-publisher & editor: The Brownie Book; died Apr 30, 19611896 - Rogers ‘Rajah’ Hornsby
baseball: SL Cardinals [League MVP Award: 1925/World Series: 1926, 1929], NY Giants, Boston Braves, Chicago Cubs, SL Browns; died Jan 5, 19631900 - Walter Lantz
Academy Award-winning animator: creator of Woody Woodpecker; died Mar 22, 1994
1904 - Syd Nathan
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame music biz entrepreneur: owned King Records, launched careers of such artists as James Brown, Hank Ballard, Little Willie John; died March 5, 19681916 - Enos (Bradsher) ‘Country’ Slaughter
Baseball Hall of Famer: SL Cardinals [all-star: 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953/World Series: 1942, 1946], NY Yankees [World Series: 1956, 1957, 1958], KC Athletics, Milwaukee Braves; died Aug 12, 20021922 - Jack Klugman
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Defenders: Blacklist [1963-1964], The Odd Couple [1970-1971, 1972-1973]; Quincy, M.E., Twelve Angry Men, Days of Wine and Roses, Goodbye Columbus; died Dec 24, 20121927 - Coretta Scott King
civil rights leader: wife of Dr. Martin Luther King; died Jan 30, 20061931 - Robert Donner
actor: Mork and Mindy, Cool Hand Luke, El Dorado, High Plains Drifter, Vanishing Point, Fools Parade, Chisum, Last Hard Men, Damnation Alley, Bite the Bullet, Under the Rainbow, TV: Charlie’s Angels, McCloud, Columbo, How the West Was Won, The Incredible Hulk, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Eight Is Enough; appeared in some 120 film and TV roles; died June 8, 20061932 - Anouk Aimée (Françoise Sorya Dreyfus)
actress: La Dolce Vita, Lola, A Man and a Woman, Dr. Bethune, Ready to Wear1932 - Maxine Brown
singer: group: The Browns: The Three Bells, Scarlet Ribbons [For Her Hair], The Old Lamplighter; solo: Sugar Cane Country; died Jan 21, 20191932 - Casey Kasem (Kemal Amin Kasem)
radio DJ/announcer/host: American Top 40; actor: Hawaii Five-O, The Hardy Boys Mysteries, Charlie’s Angels; character voice: Tiny Toon Adventures, Scooby Doo series; died Jun 15, 20141932 - Chuck Knox
football: head coach: LA Rams [1973-1976, 1992-1994], Buffalo Bills [1978-1982], Seattle Seahawks [1983-1991]; died May 12, 20181933 - Calvin Newborn
jazz/blues guitarist; brother of piano wizard Phineas Newborn Jr.; died Dec 1, 20181937 - Sandy Dennis
Academy Award-winning actress: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff [1966]; The Execution, Splendor in the Grass; died Mar 2, 19921938 - Earl Anthony
Bowling Hall of Famer: 41 career titles and 24 perfect games in competition; National Champion [1973-1975, 1981-1983]; Bowler of the Year [1974-1976, 1981-1983]; first bowler to reach $1 million in winnings; died Aug 14, 20011939 - Judy Carne (Joyce Betterill)
comedienne, actress: Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In: “Sock It to Me!”; The Americanization of Emily, Only with Married Men, Love on a Rooftop, Kraft Music Hall Presents Sandler & Young, Fair Exchange, The Baileys of Balboa; died Sep 3, 20151939 - Jerry Mercer
musician: drums: group: April Wine: Say Hello, Enough Is Enough, Just Between You and Me, Roller, Love Has Remembered Me, This Could Be the Right One, Sign of the Gypsy Queen1941 - Lee Roy Jordan
football: Dallas Cowboys linebacker: Super Bowls V, VI, X1942 - Bob Foster
International Boxing Hall of Famer: light heavyweight champion [1968-74]: won 56 of 65 professional fights1944 - Cuba Gooding
singer: group: The Main Ingredient: Everybody Plays the Fool, Just Don’t Want to Be Lonely; father of actor Cuba Gooding, Jr.1944 - Herb Pedersen
musician: banjo, guitar, songwriter, singer: group: Desert Rose Band: Love Reunited, One Step Forward, He’s Back and I’m Blue, She Don’t Love Nobody, Summer Wind, I Still Believe in You1945 - August Wilson
Tony Award-winning playwright [Fences (1987)]; Pulitzer Prize [Fences (1987), The Piano Lesson (1990)]; died Oct 2, 20051947 - Mack Alston
football: Washington Redskins tight end: Super Bowl VII; Houston Oilers, Baltimore Colts; died Dec 24, 20141947 - Pete Ham
musician: guitar, piano, singer: group: Badfinger: Maybe Tomorrow, Day After Day, No Matter What, Baby Blue; died Apr 24, 19751947 - Keith Magnuson
hockey: All-American: Univ. of Denver; NHL: Chicago Blackhawks; coach: Chicago Blackhawks; killed in car crash Dec 15, 20031947 - Herbie Murrell
singer: group: The Stylistics: Betcha By Golly Wow!, You Are Everything, I’m Stone In Love With You, Break Up to Make Up1948 - Kate Pierson
musician: organ, singer; group: The B-52’s: Rock Lobster, Quiche Lorraine, 606-0842, Dance this Mess Around1949 - Clive Taylor
musician: bass: group: Amen Corner: Gin House Blues, Bend Me Shape Me, [If Paradise is] Half As Nice, Natural Sinner1951 - Paul Daniel ‘Ace’ Frehley
musician: group: KISS [the spaceman]: Rock and Roll All Nite, Beth, Forever and I Was Made for Lovin’ You; formed Frehley’s Comet1951 - Gary Huff
football: Florida State Univ., Tampa Bay Buccaneers1952 - George Gervin
Basketball Hall of Famer: ‘Iceman’: San Antonio Spurs: led NBA in scoring 1977-1980, 1981-19821956 - Kevin McNally
actor: Pirates of the Caribbean film series, The Spy Who Loved Me, Johnny English, The Phantom of the Opera [2004], The Raven, Bounty Killer1959 - Sheena Easton (Sheena Shirley Orr)
singer: Modern Girl, Morning Train, One Man Woman, When He Shines, For Your Eyes Only, We Got Tonight, Strut, Sugar Walls1959 - Marco Pirroni
musician: guitar, songwriter: groups: Siouxsie & the Banshees: The Lord’s Prayer; Adam & The Ants: Prince Charming, Stand and Deliver, LP: Friend or Foe1967 - Willem-Alexander
King of the Netherlands [2013- ]; succeeded his mother as monarch [4/30/2013]; married to Queen Máxima [Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti]1967 - Tony Eusebio
baseball [catcher]: Houston Astros1972 - David Lascher
actor: Blossom, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Hey Dude, Alikes, Playing to Win: A Moment of Truth Movie, Kidz in the Wood, White Squall, Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story, The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children?1975 - Chris Carpenter
baseball [pitcher]: Toronto Blue Jays, St. Louis Cardinals: 2006, 2011 World Series champs1976 - Sally Hawkins
actress: Happy-Go-Lucky, An Education, Dagenham, Fingersmith, Persuasion, Blue Jasmine, Cassandra’s Dream, Made in Dagenham, Great Expectations, Blue Jasmine1976 - Olaf Tufte
Norwegian Olympic rowing champ1977 - Zachary Woodlee
dancer, choreographer: Hairspray, 27 Dresses, Bedtime Stories, Eli Stone, Fired Up!, Glee, Starstruck; actor: Step Up, Bring It on Again, Stuck on You, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Not Another Teen Movie, Rock Star, Boys and Girls1982 - Scott Usher
U.S. Olympic swimming champ; first University of Wyoming swimmer to make the Olympics1983 - Ari Graynor
actress: The Sopranos, Mystic River, Bereft, Fringe, Whip It, Turn the River, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, For a Good Time, Call....1984 - Patrick Stump
composer, songwriter, singer: group: Fall Out Boy: Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down, This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race, Grand Theft Autumn, Where Is Your Boy, Saturday, Dance, Dance1986 - Jenna Coleman
actress: Doctor Who, Emmerdale, Death Comes to Pemberley, Victoria, Me Before You1989 - Emily Rios
actress: Breaking Bad, The Bridge, Snowfall, Paint It Black, If Beale Street Could Talk1994 - Corey Seager
baseball [shortstop]: Los Angeles Dodgers [2015-2021]: 2017, 2018 World Series, 2020 World Series champs; Texas Rangers [2022– ]
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Hit Music on This Day April 27
1948Now Is the Hour (facts) - Bing Crosby
The Dickey Bird Song (facts) - The Freddy Martin Orchestra vocal: Glenn Hughes)
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