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