Today in History

Today is Tuesday, April 27, the 117th day of 2010. There are 248 days left in the year.

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

1773 _ British Parliament passes the Tea Act (eventually leads to Boston Tea Party on December 16)

1861 _ President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus

1867 _ The opera ``Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris, France)

1870 _ Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi

1937 _ U.S. Social Security system makes its first benefit payment

1940 _ Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1960 _ South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns

1978 _ Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, Charleston W.V., kills 51

1987 _ U.S. Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering U.S., due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WWII