MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2015

Today is Monday, April 27, the 117th day of 2015. There are 248 days left in the year.

1526 ― Mongol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi

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

1841 ― Imakita Kosen, first Zen teacher of D. T. Suzuki, found the awakening

1861 ― President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus

1865 ― 1,450 of 2,000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer “Sultana” explodes on the Mississippi River

1941 ― German troops occupy Athens, Greece

1945 ― Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner

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

1960 ― South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns

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

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