Today is Friday, April 27, the 118th day of 2012. There are 248 days left in the year.

4977 B.C. ― Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe

1509 ― Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice

1565 ― First Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms

1908 ― Fourth modern Olympic games open in London

1956 ― Heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing

1960 ― South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns

1861 ― President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus

1983 ― Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson

1989 ― Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China

1994 ― President Richard Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California