Today is Friday, April 27, the 118th day of 2012. 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
1565 ― First Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
1908 ― Fourth modern Olympic games open in London
1956 ― Heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
1960 ― South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns
1861 ― President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus
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