WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011

Today is Wednesday, April 27, the 117th day of 2011. There are 248 days left in the year.

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

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

1861 ― President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus

1870 ― Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi

1940 ― Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1945 ― Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner

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

1960 ― South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns

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

1989 ― Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China