Today is Saturday, April 27, the 117th day of 2013. 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
1861 ― President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus
1908 ― Fourth modern Olympic Games open in London
1945 ― Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner
1956 ― Heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
1960 ― South Korean President Syng-man Rhee resigns
1983 ― Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson
1987 ― U.S. Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering U.S., due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WWII
1989 ― Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China