Today is Monday, April 27, the 117th day of 2009. 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
1526 _ Mogol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi
1565 _ First Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
1861 _ President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus
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
1994 _ President Richard Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California