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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27: Woody Woodpecker Day: -- April 27, 1899: #BOTD: #HBD! Walter Lantz, American cartoonist, animator, film producer, director and actor (d. March 22, 1994) is #born in New Rochelle, New York to Italian immigrant parents. He is best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions, for perfecting the "rubber hose" style of animation (arms and legs depicted as simple, flowing curves, without hinged wrists or elbows) and for creating the characters Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker. Woody Woodpecker Day is observed as a celebration of everyone's favorite animated woodpecker character. Between 1940 and 1972, American animation was at its peak. During this time, an anthropomorphic animated woodpecker named Woody Woodpecker was created. Woody appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz Studio and distributed by Universal Pictures. The character was created by cartoonist Walter Lantz and storyboard artist Ben "Bugs" Hardaway, who had previously worked at Warner Bros. on Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, two other screwball characters. Cartoonist Walter Lantz created Woody, an anthropomorphic woodpecker, in 1940. He worked with Ben Hardaway, a storyboard artist who is also behind the characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in the late 1930s. "The Woody Woodpecker Show," featuring a fresh video of Woody and live-action footage of Lantz, was originally broadcast on television in 1957. Lantz lasted longer than most of his contemporaries in producing theatrical cartoons and Woody Woodpecker remained a fixture of universal's release schedule until 1972 when Lantz eventually closed his studio. For particular performances and occasions after, the character was resurrected. Woody woodpecker got his very own theme song when musicians George Tibbles and Ramey Idriss penned 'The Woody Woodpecker Song' in 1947. The song made extensive use of the character's renowned chuckle. In the 1988 film, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," Woody also had a cameo appearance among several other well-known cartoon characters. "The New Woody Woodpecker Show," a Saturday morning cartoon television series starring prolific voice actor Billy West as Woody, aired from 1999 to 2002. Walter Lantz died at St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California from heart failure at age 94. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/race-cartoons-dvd-dual-layer-all-regions.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27: Morse Code Day: -- April 27, 1791: #BOTD: #HBD! Samuel Morse, American inventor and painter (d. April 2, 1872) is #born Samuel Finley Breese Morse in Charlestown, Massachusetts. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy. April 27 honors Morse and his invention with Morse Code Day, a precise, concise form of communication that played a role in wars and influenced Western life in general when Morse invented it. Morse Code Day on April 27 honors the inventor of the Morse code, Samuel Morse, who was born on this day in 1791. Apart from this, Morse Code Day also celebrates this pioneering method of communication and the invention that was first used to transmit encoded messages - the electric telegraph. Morse code is a precise, concise form of communication that played a role in wars and influenced Western life in general when Morse invented it. Before we enjoyed instant communication via cell phones and email, the world communicated with tranquility. Messages were sent via post and were hand-delivered to the recipients, often weeks or even months later. Then, people began to wonder if there was a faster means of communication. One such group of people, three Americans - the artist and inventor Samuel Morse, scientist and businessman Alfred Vail, and scientist Joseph Henry began devising a way to communicate using the electric telegraph in 1836. Morse initially came up with the idea - electric currents would pass through the telegraph as the person typed, leaving indentations on a paper tape. They couldn't type complete words or messages, and so, substituted a code to represent the message. There were dots, dashes, and even spaces that represented different numerals from zero to nine. Initially, this code only transmitted numerals. By 1940, Vail realized this method was limited and further expanded the code to include letters and special characteristics too. This code was initially dubbed the 'Morse landline code,' 'American Morse code,' or 'Railroad Morse.' Soon, the use of this system spread across the sea to Europe. People using the code reported one major challenge. The symbols that the Morse code represented were all in English, making the original Morse code inadequate for non-English countries that had letters with various diacritic marks like e, c, and more. A group of European nations took it upon themselves to create their variation of the Morse code which was released in 1851. Called the International Morse Code or the Continental Morse Code, this new version of the code gained widespread appeal and was used across shipping, aviation, and other industries globally. Samuel Morse died in New York City aged 80. He is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. By the time of his death, his estate was valued at some 500K USD (12.7M USD in 2024). In his will he provided an award medal that is presented annually by the New York University to one undergraduate student who shows special ability in physics. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/remember-when-it39ll-never-fly-dvd-technology-history-dick-cave39.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27: National Babe Ruth Day: -- A day when baseball fans worldwide honor one of baseball's all-time greatest players. George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr., born on February 6, 1895, in Baltimore, Maryland, was nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat." Spending 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), he played for three teams from 1914 to 1935. Babe Ruth's baseball career started as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. He became a full-time right-fielder when the New York Yankees bought his contract in 1919. Being one of the league's most prolific hitters, he helped the Yankees win seven pennants and four World Series titles. Ruth set career records during his career for home runs, slugging percentage, runs batted in, and on-base plus slugging. In 1927, he was the very first player to hit 60 home runs in one season. Following a short stint with the Boston Braves, Ruth retired in 1935. In 1936, the National Baseball Hall of Fame elected Ruth as one of the first five players to be inducted into the Hall. In 1946, after experiencing severe eye pain and difficulty swallowing, Babe Ruth was diagnosed with cancer. A year later on April 27, Ruth attended the newly proclaimed Babe Ruth Day and spoke briefly to a crowd of almost 60,000 people at Yankee Stadium, "The House That Ruth Built", as fans cheered and dignitaries surrounded the Bambino, including Cardinal Francis Spellman, Commissioner A. B. Chandler, A.L. President Will Haridge, and N.L. President Ford Frick. At the age of 53, on August 16, 1948, at 8:01 pm, Babe Ruth died in his sleep. To observe National Babe Ruth Day: Play a game of catch in the backyard. Go to the batting cages and try slugging a few Babe Ruth-style; Buy some peanuts and Cracker Jacks and head out to the ball game; Watch a Babe Ruth documentary or read up about this legendary baseball player; and use #NationalBabeRuthDay to share on social media. Babe Ruth was known by a number of nicknames: Babe, Sultan of Swat, Great Bambino, Colossus of Clout, Titan of Terror, Prince of Pounders, and Wizard of Whack being chief among them. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-age-of-ballyhoo-dvd-1920s-documentary-gloria-swa1920.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27, 1593: #BOTD: #HBD! Mumtaz Mahal, beautiful and brilliant Empress consort of the Mughal Empire from January 19, 1628 until her death as the chief consort of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, inspiration for the Taj Mahal built as her mausoleum and ultimately of her beloved Shah Jahan himself (d. June 17, 1631) is #born Arjumand Banu Begum in Agra, the daughter of Abu'l-Hasan Asaf Khan, a wealthy Persian noble who held high office in the Mughal Empire, and the niece of Empress Nur Jahan, the chief wife of Emperor Jahangir and the power behind the emperor. She was married at the age of 19 on April 30, 1612 to Prince Khurram, later known by his regnal name Shah Jahan, who conferred upon her the title "Mumtaz Mahal" (Persian: the exalted one of the palace). Although betrothed to Shah Jahan since 1607, she ultimately became his second wife in 1612. Mumtaz and her husband had fourteen children, including Jahanara Begum (Shah Jahan's favourite daughter), and the Crown prince Dara Shikoh, the heir-apparent, anointed by his father, who temporarily succeeded him, until deposed by Mumtaz Mahal's sixth child, Aurangzeb, who ultimately succeeded his father as the sixth Mughal emperor in 1658. Mumtaz Mahal dies during the birth of her 14th child, daughter Gauhar Ara Begum, in Burhanpur, Deccan (present-day Madhya Pradesh), during the birth of her fourteenth child, a daughter named Gauhar Ara Begum. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal in Agra, which is considered to be a monument of undying love, often cited as one of the Wonders of the World. As with other Mughal royal ladies, we have no contemporary likenesses that are accepted as of her, but numerous imagined portraits were created from the 19th century onwards. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/heaven-on-earth-the-taj-mahal-world-heritage-site-mp4-download-or-dvd.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27, 1805: Crime: Organized Crime: Piracy: The Barbary Pirates (The Barbary Corsairs, The Ottoman Corsairs): The Barbary Wars: The First Barbary War (1801-1805) (The Tripolitan War, The Barbary Coast War): The Battle Of Derna (1805): -- United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' Hymn), beginning The Battle Of Derna. The Battle Of Derna at Derna, Cyrenaica was the decisive victory in April-May 1805 of a mercenary army recruited and led by United States Marines under the command of U.S. Army Lieutenant William Eaton, (1764-1811), diplomatic Consul to Tripoli and U.S. Marine Corps First Lieutenant Presley Neville O'Bannon (1776-1850). The battle involved a forced 500-mile march through the North African desert from Alexandria, Egypt to the eastern port city of Derna, Libya, which was defended by a much larger force. The Battle Of Derna was the first land battle of the United States on foreign soil after the American Revolutionary War, and was the decisive action of the First Barbary War, although Eaton was furious over what he called a 'sell-out' between State Department diplomat Tobias Lear and the Bey (Tribal Chief) of Derna, Mustafa Bey. Hamet Karamanli, the rightful heir to the throne of Tripoli whom the Americans had promised to reinstate as ruler, instead returned to his exile in Egypt, and the mercenaries employed by the US were never fully paid. In recognition of his bravery, O'Bannon was presented a sword for his part in attempting to restore Prince Hamet Karamanli to his throne as the Bey of Tripoli. This sword became the model for the Mameluke Sword, adopted in 1825 for Marine Corps officers, which is part of their formal uniform today. The First Barbary War (1801-1805), also known as the Tripolitanian War and the Barbary Coast War, was the first of two Barbary Wars, in which the United States and Sweden fought against the four North African states known collectively as the "Barbary States". Three of these were nominal provinces of the Ottoman Empire, but in practice autonomous: Tripoli, Algiers, and Tunis. The fourth was the independent Sultanate of Morocco. The cause of the U.S. participation was pirates from the Barbary States seizing American merchant ships and holding the crews for ransom, demanding the U.S. pay tribute to the Barbary rulers. United States President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay this tribute. Sweden had been at war with the Tripolitans since 1800. The "Marines' Hymn" is the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, introduced by the first Director of USMC Band, Francesco Maria Scala. It is the oldest official song in the United States Armed Forces. The "Marines' Hymn" is typically sung at the position of attention as a gesture of respect. However, the third verse is also used as a toast during formal events, such as the birthday ball and other ceremonies. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-gallant-breed-dvd-set-3-part-us-marine-history-2-dis32.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27, 1822: #BOTD: #HBD! Ulysses S. Grant, American U.S. Civil War General, 18th President of the United States (d. July 23, 1885) is #born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. Ulysses Simpson Grant served as Commanding General of the Army and then the President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States. A prominent United States Army general during the American Civil War, Grant led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy with the supervision of Abraham Lincoln. As the 18th President of the United States (1869-77) Grant led the Republicans in their efforts to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery during Reconstruction. Grant was born and raised in Ohio by Methodist parents whose lineage in the new world went back several generations. As a youth he often worked in his father's tannery and showed an early talent for riding, taming and managing horses. After graduating from West Point in 1843 Grant served with distinction in the Mexican-American War. Upon his return he married Julia Dent, and together they had four children. Grant retired from the army in 1854 and struggled financially in civilian life. When the Civil War began in 1861 he rejoined the army and quickly rose through the ranks. During the war, he earned the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grant . As a general he took control of Kentucky, most of Tennessee, won major battles at Shiloh and seized Vicksburg, gaining control of the Mississippi River and dividing the Confederacy. These victories, combined with those in the Chattanooga Campaign, persuaded Abraham Lincoln that Grant was the general best suited to lead the combined Union armies. Grant was promoted to Lieutenant General, a rank previously reserved for George Washington, in March 1864. He confronted Robert E. Lee, trapping his army in their defense of Richmond, while coordinating a series of campaigns in other theaters. In April 1865 Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, effectively ending the war. Historians have hailed Grant's military genius, and his strategies are featured in military history textbooks. After Lincoln's assassination, Grant became increasingly disillusioned by President Andrew Johnson's approach to Reconstruction, and drifted toward the "Radical" Republicans. Elected president in 1868, the youngest man in the office to that date, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy, created the Department of Justice, used the military to enforce laws in the former Confederacy and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan. Grant strengthened the Republican Party in the South and signed three civil rights acts into law. He appointed African Americans and Jewish-Americans to prominent federal offices. In 1871 he created the first Civil Service Commission. The Democrats and Liberal Republicans united behind Grant's opponent in the presidential election of 1872, but Grant was re-elected by a large margin. Generally regarded as personally honest, he nonetheless faced accusations of corruption within his administration. Grant's Peace Policy with Native Americans was a bold departure for its time. In foreign policy, Grant sought to increase trade and influence while remaining at peace with the world. With Secretary Of State Hamilton Fish, he successfully resolved the Alabama claims with Great Britain (a series of demands for damages sought by the government of the United States from the United Kingdom in 1869 for the attacks upon Union merchant ships by Confederate Navy commerce raiders built in British shipyards during the American Civil War, focused chiefly on damages by the most famous of these raiders, the CSS Alabama, which took more than sixty prizes before she was sunk off the French coast in 1864). Grant and Fish negotiated a peaceful resolution with Spain over the Virginius Affair. Congress rejected Grant's initiative to annex the Dominican Republic, creating a rift among Republicans. In national affairs, Grant's administration implemented a gold standard and sought to strengthen the dollar. Grant's immediate response to the Panic of 1873 failed to halt a severe industrial depression that produced high unemployment, deflation, and bankruptcies. When he left office in 1877, Grant embarked on a two-and-a-half-year world tour that captured favorable global attention for him and the United States. In 1880, Grant was unsuccessful in obtaining the Republican presidential nomination for a third term. Facing severe investment reversals and dying of throat cancer, he wrote his memoirs, which proved to be a major critical and financial success. His death in 1885 prompted an outpouring in support of national unity. Historical assessments of Grant's legacy have varied considerably over the years. Although Grant's presidency has popularly been criticized for its Gilded Age scandals, modern scholarship regards him as an embattled president who performed a difficult job during Reconstruction. Although early rankings of Presidents rated his administration among the worst, modern appreciation for Grant's support of civil rights and diverse federal appointments has greatly improved his historical reputation. Ulysses S. Grant died after a year-long struggle with throat cancer, surrounded by his family, at 8:08 a.m. in his Mount McGregor cottage at the age of 63. Having faced severe investment reversals and dying of throat cancer, he rushed to complete his memoirs in order to provide income for his family after his death, which he finished immediately prior to his death. These memoirs proved to be a major critical and financial success, and restored his family's fortunes. His death prompted an outpouring in support of national unity. General Sheridan, then Commanding General of the Army, ordered a day-long tribute to Grant on all military posts, and President Grover Cleveland ordered a thirty-day nationwide period of mourning. After private services, the honor guard placed Grant's body on a special funeral train, which traveled to West Point and New York City. A quarter of a million people viewed it in the two days before the funeral. Tens of thousands of men, many of them veterans from the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), marched with Grant's casket drawn by two dozen black stallions to Riverside Park in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan. His pallbearers included Union generals Sherman and Sheridan, Confederate generals Simon Bolivar Buckner and Joseph E. Johnston, Admiral David Dixon Porter, and Senator John A. Logan, the head of the GAR. Following the casket in the seven-mile-long (11 km) procession were President Cleveland, two former living presidents Hayes and Arthur, all of the president's cabinet, as well as justices of the Supreme Court. Attendance at the New York funeral topped 1.5 million. Ceremonies were held in other major cities around the country, while Grant was eulogized in the press and likened to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Grant's body was laid to rest in Riverside Park, first in a temporary tomb, and then-twelve years later, on April 17, 1897-in the General Grant National Memorial, also known as "Grant's Tomb", the largest mausoleum in North America. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/ulysses-s-grant-amp-the-battle-of-the-wilderness-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27, 1861: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): Nonacquiescence: Abraham Lincoln's Suspension Of The Writ Of Habeas Corpus: -- In response to The Baltimore Riot Of 1861 (The Pratt Street Riots, The Pratt Street Massacre) attacks that began on April 19, 1861 upon Union troops travelling south while changing trains in Baltimore, Maryland by mobs who seized control of the rail links, President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus for the security of troops trying to get to and travel from Washington, D.C., effectively denying due process of law with regards to arrest and detention, adopted as America grappled with the complexities of secession, loyalty to the Union and the Civil War. Groups led by local leaders later burned critical rail bridges to the capital. and the Army responded by arresting local Maryland officials. John Merryman, one Maryland official hindering the U.S. troop movements, petitioned Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney to issue a writ of habeas corpus. In June Taney, ruling not as a Supreme Court justice but only for the lower circuit court in the case ex parte Merryman, issued the writ which he felt could only be suspended by Congress. However, Lincoln persisted with the policy of suspension in select areas by invoking nonacquiescence, the intentional failure by one branch of the government to comply with the decision of another to some degree. In the United States, federal agencies might practice nonacquiescence by refusing to accept the validity of unfavorable court decisions as binding precedent. Exceptionally, the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service openly declare such conduct. It was Lincoln's invocation of nonacquiescence that the doctrine first came to national prominence in the United States. Ex parte Merryman, 17 F. Cas. 144 (C.C.D. Md. 1861) (No. 9487), is a well-known and controversial U.S. federal court case that arose out of the American Civil War. It was a test of the authority of the President to suspend "the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus" under the Constitution's Suspension Clause, when Congress was in recess and therefore unavailable to do so itself. More generally, the case raised questions about the ability of the executive branch to decline enforcement of orders from the judicial branch when the executive believes them to be erroneous and harmful to its own legal powers. John Merryman was a prominent planter from Baltimore County, Maryland, who had been arrested at his rural plantation. Held prisoner in Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor, he was kept inaccessible to the judiciary and to civilian legal authorities generally. U.S. Supreme Court head, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, ruled in this case the authority to suspend habeas corpus lay exclusively with Congress. The Executive Branch, including the United States Army, under the authority of the President of the United States as Commander-in-Chief, did not comply with Taney's Merryman opinion. Taney filed his Merryman decision with the United States Circuit Court for the District of Maryland, but it is unclear if Taney's decision was a circuit court decision. One view, based in part on Taney's handwritten copy of his decision in Merryman, is that Taney heard the habeas action under special authority granted to federal judges by Section 14 of the Judiciary Act of 1789. According to this view, Merryman was an in-chambers opinion. Due to its vague jurisdictional locus and hastened disposition, the nature of the Merryman decision remains contested to this day. Habeas corpus (Medieval Latin: "[we, a Court, command] that you have the body [of the detainee brought before us]"), is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful. Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person. Due process balances the power of law of the land and protects the individual person from it. When a government harms a person without following the exact course of the law, this constitutes a due process violation, which offends the rule of law. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/lincoln-and-the-war-within-election-to-sumter-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27, 1891: #BOTD: #HBD! Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. March 5, 1953) is #born Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev in Sontsovka, Bakhmutsky Uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (today Sontsivka, Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine). Sergei Prokofiev was the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kije, the ballet Romeo and Juliet, from which "Dance of the Knights" is taken, and Peter and the Wolf. Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created, excluding juvenilia, seven completed operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra, and nine completed piano sonatas. In 1915, Prokofiev made a decisive break from the standard composer-pianist category with his orchestral Scythian Suite, compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes. Diaghilev commissioned three further ballets from Prokofiev - Chout, Le pas d'acier and The Prodigal Son - which at the time of their original production all caused a sensation among both critics and colleagues. In 1938, Prokofiev collaborated with Eisenstein on the historical epic Alexander Nevsky, some of his most inventive and dramatic music. Sergei Prokofiev died at age 61 on the same day as Joseph Stalin. Prokofiev's death is usually attributed to cerebral hemorrhage. Prokoviev had lived near Red Square, and for three days throngs gathered to mourn Stalin, making it impossible to hold Prokofiev's funeral service at the headquarters of the Soviet Composers' Union. Because the hearse was not allowed near Prokofiev's house, his coffin had to be moved by hand through back streets in the opposite direction of the masses of people going to visit Stalin's body. About 30 people attended the funeral, Shostakovich among them. Although they had not seemed to get along when they met, in the later years their interactions had become far more amicable, with Shostakovich writing to Prokofiev, "I wish you at least another hundred years to live and create. Listening to such works as your Seventh Symphony makes it much easier and more joyful to live." Prokofiev is buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery. The leading Soviet musical periodical reported Prokofiev's death as a brief item on page 116, while the first 115 pages were devoted to Stalin's death. He had been chronically ill for eight years. Prokofiev's wife Mira Mendelson spent her final years living in the Moscow apartment they had shared. She occupied her time organizing her husband's papers, promoting his music, and writing her memoirs, having been strongly encouraged by Prokofiev to embark on the latter. Work on the memoirs was difficult for her; she left them incomplete at her death. Mendelson died of a heart attack in Moscow in 1968, 15 years after Prokofiev. Inside her purse a message dated February 1950 and signed by Prokofiev and Mendelson instructed: "We wish to be buried next to each other." Their remains are buried together at Novodevichy Cemetery. Lina Prokofiev outlived her ex-husband by many years, dying in London in early 1989. Royalties from his music provided her with a modest income, and she acted as storyteller for a recording of her husband's Peter and the Wolf (released on CD by Chandos Records) with Neeme Jarvi conducting the Scottish National Orchestra. Their sons Sviatoslav (1924-2010), an architect, and Oleg (1928-1998), an artist, painter, sculptor and poet, dedicated much of their lives to promoting their father's work. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/ivan-the-terrible-part-1-and-part-2-dvd-aka-ivan-grozny-2-d122.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27, 1894: #BOTD: #HBD! George Petty, American pin-up artist (d. July 21, 1975) is #born George Brown Petty IV in Abbeville, the seat of Vermilion Parish in south Louisiana. Petty's pin-up art appeared primarily in Esquire and Fawcett Publications's True but was also in calendars marketed by Esquire, True and Ridgid Tool Company. Petty's Esquire gatefolds originated and popularized the magazine device of centerfold spreads. Reproductions of his work, known as "Petty Girls," were widely rendered by military artists as nose art decorating warplanes during the Second World War, including the Memphis Belle. Two images of Petty Girls were used in the crowd on The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. Robert Cummings portrayed George Petty in the imaginary musical comedy The Petty Girl (Columbia, 1950), directed by Henry Levin and featuring the film debut of Tippi Hedren as one of the Petty Girls. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/vintage-nude-photos-dvd-40000-pics-nudes-in-art-and-hi40000.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27, 1905: Grand Openings: The Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liege, a world's fair held in Liege from April 27 to November 6, 1905 opens. Held just 8 years after a Belgian exposition held in Brussels, the Liege International (1905) exposition was intended to show Liege's industrial importance it also marked 75 years of Belgian independence and 40 years of Leopold II's reign. The Liege World's Fair received 7 million visitors, covered 52 acres and made 75,117 Belgian Francs. Twenty-nine countries were official participants, from Europe: Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom; from Africa: Egypt and Congo Free State; from America: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, and the United States; and from Asia China, Japan, Persia and Turkey. Germany and Spain were unofficial participants. L'art Ancien Au Pays de Liege, an exhibition of medieval and Renaissance art, was part of the event. Ulrikke Greve' Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseums Vaevskole contributed tapestries which won a gold prize. The Palais des Beaux Arts building was left to the city, and housed the Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporaine. After closing in 2013, in May 2016 it reopened, with a contemporary glass extension, as La Boverie. A piece by Jean-Theodore Radoux entitled Cantate pour l'inauguration de l'Exposition universelle de Liege, 1905, with words by Jules Sauveniere, was written for the expo. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/5-disc-world39s-fair-films-dvd-megaset-complete-fi539.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27, 1927: #BOTD: #HBD! Coretta Scott King, referred to as "First Lady Of The Civil Rights Movement", African American author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr (d. January 30, 2006) is #born Coretta Scott King in Heiberger, Alabama in her parents' home, with her paternal great-grandmother Delia Scott, a former slave, presiding as midwife. As an advocate for African American equality, she was a leader for the civil rights movement in the 1960s. King was also a singer who often incorporated music into her civil rights work. King met her husband while attending graduate school in Boston. They both became increasingly active in the American civil rights movement. King played a prominent role in the years after her husband's assassination in 1968 when she took on the leadership of the struggle for racial equality herself and became active in the Women's Movement. King founded the King Center, and sought to make his birthday a national holiday. She finally succeeded when Ronald Reagan signed legislation which established Martin Luther King, Jr., Day on November 2, 1983. She later broadened her scope to include both advocacy for LGBTQ rights and opposition to apartheid. King became friends with many politicians before and after Martin's death, including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. Her telephone conversation with John F. Kennedy during the 1960 presidential election has been credited by historians for mobilizing African American voters. In August 2005, King suffered a stroke which paralyzed her right side and left her unable to speak; five months later, she died of respiratory failure due to complications from ovarian cancer. Her funeral was attended by some 10,000 people, including four of five living U.S. presidents. She was temporarily buried on the grounds of the King Center until being interred next to her husband acros the street from the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park Visitor Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame, the National Women's Hall of Fame, and was the first African American to lie in state at the Georgia State Capitol. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/eyes-on-the-prize-ii-dvd-set-4-discs-complete-2nd-seri42.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27, 1932: #BOTD: #HBD! Casey Kasem, American disc jockey, music historian, radio celebrity, actor and voice actor; co-created American Top 40 (d. June 15, 2014) is #born Kemal Amin Kasem in Detroit, Michigan to Lebanese Druze immigrants. Casey Kasem was known for being the host of several music radio countdown programs, most notably American Top 40, from 1970 until his retirement in 2009, and for providing the voice of Norville "Shaggy" Rogers in the Scooby-Doo franchise from 1969 to 1997, and again from 2002 until 2009. Kasem co-founded the American Top 40 franchise in 1970, hosting it from its inception to 1988, and again from 1998 to 2004. Between January 1989 and early 1998, he was the host of Casey's Top 40, Casey's Hot 20, and Casey's Countdown. From 1998 to 2009, Kasem also hosted two adult contemporary spin-offs of American Top 40: American Top 20 and American Top 10. In addition to his radio shows, Kasem provided the voice of many commercials, performed many voices for Sesame Street, provided the character voice of Peter Cottontail in the Rankin/Bass production of Here Comes Peter Cottontail, was "the voice of NBC", and helped out with the annual Jerry Lewis telethon. He provided the cartoon voices of Robin in "The Adventures of Batman and Robin" and Super Friends, Mark on Battle of the Planets, and a number of characters for the Transformers cartoon series of the 1980s. In 2008, he was the voice of Out of Sight Retro Night which aired on WGN America but was replaced by rival Rick Dees. Kasem retired from his role of voicing Shaggy in 2009, although he did voice Shaggy's father in the 2010 TV series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. Casey Kasem died at St. Anthony's Hospital in Gig Harbor, Washington at the age of 82. The immediate cause of death was reported as sepsis caused by an ulcerated bedsore. His body was handed over to his widow. Reportedly, Kasem wanted to be buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. By July 19, a judge had granted Kerri Kasem a temporary restraining order to prevent Jean Kasem from cremating the body in order to allow an autopsy to be performed. However, when Kerri Kasem went to give a copy of the order to the funeral home, she was informed that the body had been moved at the direction of Jean Kasem. Kasem's wife had the body moved to a funeral home in Montreal on July 14, 2014. On August 14, it was reported in the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang that Kasem was going to be buried in Oslo. Jean Kasem had him interred at Oslo Western Civil Cemetery on December 16, 2014, more than six months after his death. In November 2015, three of Kasem's children and his brother sued his widow for wrongful death. The lawsuit charges Jean Kasem with elder abuse and inflicting emotional distress on the children by restricting access before his death. A 2018 police investigation initiated by a private investigator working for Jean found that he had received appropriate medical care while in Washington, and that there was no evidence pointing to homicide. The suits were settled in 2019. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-night-that-panicked-america-dvd-war-of-the-worlds-broadcast.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27, 1936: Organized Labor: The Labor Union Movement: The Labor History Of The United States: Labor Unions In The United States: The American Federation Of Labor (AFL): The Autonomy Of The United Auto Workers (UAW): -- The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation Of Labor. The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Automobile Workers (UAW), is an American labor union that represents workers in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada. It was founded as part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s and grew rapidly from 1936 to the 1950s. The union played a major role in the liberal wing of the Democratic party under the leadership of Walter Reuther (president 1946-70). It was known for gaining high wages and pensions for auto workers, but it was unable to unionize auto plants built by foreign-based car makers in the South after the 1970s, and it went into a steady decline in membership; reasons for this included increased automation, decreased use of labor, movements of manufacturing (including reaction to NAFTA), and increased globalization. UAW members in the 21st century work in industries as diverse as autos and auto parts, health care, casino gambling, and higher education. The union is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. It claims to have more than 391,000 active members and more than 580,000 retired members in over 600 local unions, and claims to hold 1,150 contracts with some 1,600 employers. The American Federation Of Labor (AFL) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor association. Samuel Gompers of the Cigar Makers' International Union was elected president at its founding convention and reelected every year, except one, until his death in 1924. The AFL was the largest union grouping in the United States for the first half of the 20th century, even after the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) by unions which were expelled by the AFL in 1935 over its opposition to industrial unionism. The Federation was founded and dominated by craft unions throughout its first fifty years, after which many craft union affiliates turned to organizing on an industrial union basis to meet the challenge from the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1940s. In 1955, the AFL merged with the CIO to create the AFL-CIO, which has comprised the longest lasting and most influential labor federation in the United States to this day. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/walter-reuther-the-uaw-sit-down-and-fight-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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April 27, 1939: #BOTD: #HBD! Judy Carne, English actress and comedian, best remembered for the phrase "Sock it to me!" on Rowan and Martin' Laugh-In (d. September 3, 2015) is #born Joyce Audrey Botterill in Northampton, England. Her parents, Harold and Kathy, were greengrocers in Kingsthorpe. She made her first British television appearances on the series Danger Man (1961) and episodes of The Rag Trade (also 1961), a BBC sitcom. She moved to the US not long afterwards. Her first regular role was in the sitcom Fair Exchange (1963) as an English teenager who goes to the US to live with an American family, whose daughter (played by Lynn Loring) has gone to live in England. That was followed by The Baileys of Balboa (1964). She later co-starred with Pete Duel in Love on a Rooftop (1966). She made several appearances on the adventure series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. She had a small part in the ninth episode of the TV series Gidget (1965), guest-starred as Jill in first-season episode 2, "Follow the Leader" and as Floy in second-season episode 3, "Then Came The Mighty Hunter" of 12 O'Clock High (1965), and appeared in an episode of I Dream of Jeannie (1966). She appeared in the Bonanza episode "A Question of Strength" (1963) as Sister Mary Kathleen, two episodes of The Big Valley (1967), guest-starred in episode 11 of the first season of Alias Smith and Jones (1971) and the TV adaptation of QB VII (1974). Her film roles included A Pair of Briefs (1962), The Americanization of Emily (1964), the wife of Tom Bell in All the Right Noises (1971), and Rachel Amodeo's street movie What About Me (1993), opposite Richard Hell and Johnny Thunders. On Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (1968-1970) Carne gained stardom. Her most popular routine ended with her saying "Sock it to me!", at which point she was doused with water or assaulted in some other way. Carne was a regular in the first two seasons (1968-69); then, having decided the show had become "a big, bloody bore", made occasional guest appearances in the remaining 1969-70 seasons. Carne starred in a revival of the musical The Boy Friend which opened on Broadway on 14 April 1970 and ran for 111 performances. Carne was married to actor Burt Reynolds from 1963 to 1965 and to producer Robert Bergmann from 1970 to 1971. Both marriages were brief, childless, and ended in divorce. In 1978, after being found not guilty of possessing heroin, she was involved in a car accident along with her second husband; she recovered from a broken neck. Her drug problem continued and she was later arrested again for heroin possession. Her autobiography, Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside: The Bittersweet Saga of the Sock-It-To-Me Girl (1985), chronicled her difficulties with drugs, her failed marriage to Reynolds, and her bisexuality. Carne moved back to Northamptonshire, England, in the 1980s, living quietly in the village of Pitsford. She died from pneumonia at a hospital in Northampton. Her remains were cremated; the final disposition of her ashes is unknown. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/rowan-amp-martin39s-laughin-comedy-album-19683919683.html

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April 27, 1948: #BOTD: #HBD! Kate Pierson, American singer, lyricist, guitarist, bassist, keyboardist and founding member of the new wave band B-52's, is #born Catherine Elizabeth Pierson in Weehawken, New Jersey, and raised in Rutherford, New Jersey. In the B-52s, she has performed alongside Cindy Wilson, Fred Schneider, Ricky Wilson, and Keith Strickland. In the early years, as well as being a vocalist, Pierson was the main keyboard player and performed on a keyboard bass during live shows and on many of the band's recordings, taking on a role usually filled by a bass guitar player, which differentiated the band from their contemporaries. This, along with Pierson's distinctive wide-ranging singing voice, remains a trademark of the B-52's' unique sound. She wrote such B-52s songs as Dance This Mess Around, Legal Tender, Private Idaho and Whammy Kiss. Pierson has also collaborated with many other artists including the Ramones, Iggy Pop and R.E.M. Pierson possesses a soprano vocal range. In February 2015, Pierson released her first solo album, Guitars and Microphones, featuring material co-written by Sia. She later released the non-album single "Better Not Sting the Bee", and then she released an April 16, 2016 cover of "Venus" as a single. Side B included "Radio In Bed" written by Kate and her wife Monica Coleman. Both tracks were produced by Jack White. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/i-want-my-music-tv-dvd-late-1980s-vi1980.html

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April 27, 1951: #BOTD: #HBD! Ace Frehley, American guitarist and songwriter (d. October 16, 2025) is #born Paul Daniel Frehley in The Bronx, New York City. Ace Frehley is best known as the original lead guitarist and co-founding member of the rock band Kiss. He invented the persona of The Spaceman (a.k.a. Space Ace) and played with the group from its inception in 1973 until his departure in 1982. After leaving Kiss, Frehley embarked on a solo career, which was put on hold when he rejoined Kiss in 1996 for a highly successful reunion tour. Frehley's second tenure with Kiss lasted until 2002, when he left at the conclusion of what was originally purported to be the band's Farewell Tour. His most recent solo album, Spaceman, was released on October 19, 2018. Guitar World magazine ranked him as the 14th Greatest Metal Guitarist of All Time. Outside Kiss, Frehley had commercial success, with his first solo album going platinum. His first album with his "Frehley's Comet" band was also a big seller. Frehley is noted for his aggressive, atmospheric and melodic guitar playing and is also known for the use of many "special effects" guitars, including a Gibson Les Paul guitar that emits smoke from the neck humbucker pickup and produces spinning pyrotechnics, and a custom Les Paul that emits light based on song tempo. On September 25, 2025, Frehley suffered a minor fall in his home studio and was forced to cancel tour dates after being hospitalized. One week later on October 2, he fell down a flight of stairs at his home where he severely injured his head and was rushed to the hospital. Two weeks later on October 16, 2025, TMZ reported that Frehley was on life support with a ventilator and had brain bleeding. His family considered removing him from life support after his health failed to improve. Frehley died in Morristown, New Jersey, at the age of 74, several hours after life support was stopped. His former Kiss bandmates paid tribute to him. In a joint statement, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons described Frehley as an "essential and irreplaceable rock soldier during some of the most formative foundational chapters of the band and its history." Peter Criss stated that "Ace influenced and touched the hearts of millions of people." In accordance with his wishes, Frehley was buried near his parents at Woodlawn Cemetery following a private memorial service at Sinatra Memorial Home in Yonkers on October 21. The service was attended by a small group of family and friends, including the three remaining original members of Kiss. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html

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April 27, 1953: Korea: The History Of Korea: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Korean Conflict: The Korean War: Air Warfare Of The Korean War: Operation Moolah: -- The United States Air Force (USAF), in an effort to obtain through defection a fully capable Soviet MiG-15 jet fighter, begins offering 100K USD to the first pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea, and 50K USD for every following pilot. After communist air forces had introduced the MiG-15 into the Korea theater of operations on November 1, 1950, USAF pilots reported the performance of the MiG-15 was superior in some respects to United Nations (U.N.) aircraft, including the the F-86 Sabre, the USAF's newest plane. As a result, the USAF was eager to get a hold of one intact, and initiated this reward-based operation in respone. The success of the operation, codenamed Operation "Moolah" after the American slang for "money", is disputable since no Communist pilot defected before the armistice was signed on July 27, 1953. However, early in the morning on September 21, 1953, Lieutenant No Kum-Sok flew a MiG-15bis, bort number 'Red 2057', of the 2nd Regiment, Korean People's Air Force, from Sunan Air Base, just outside Pyongyang, North Korea and landed before 10:00 a.m. at Kimpo Air Base in South Korea, unaware of Operation Moolah. No Kum-Sok (now U.S. citizen Kenneth H. Rowe, b. January 10, 1932) was immediately taken into the base headquarters for interrogation and physical examination. His aircraft was disassembled and loaded onto a C-124 Globemaster and shipped off the next day to Kadena Air Base on Okinawa. The next morning, South Korean newspapers mentioned the defecting North Korean pilot and his award of 100 K USD. No was later advised by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to decline the reward money in exchange for paid education at an American college of his choosing (President Dwight D. Eisenhower did not support Operation Moolah. He thought it unethical to offer money to a defector and was concerned about the North Korean reaction to the defection due to the uneasy armistice agreement.) One of his handlers from the CIA was Larry Chin, who was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1985 for spying. In the aftermath of No's defection, five of his fellow pilots were executed. No provided valuable insight to American test pilots prior to their evaluation of the MiG at Kadena Air Base. Testing of the MiG-15 lasted 11 days; the test pilots were the venerable Major Chuck Yeager, as well as Captain Harold "Tom" Collins, led by Major General Albert Boyd, the commander of the Wright Air Development Center. The tests revealed that though the aircraft was a reasonably good fighter, it lacked the technological sophistication of American aircraft, such as the F-86. While the MiG-15 did have a faster climb rate and operated in a higher altitude ceiling than the F-86, it suffered from problems with oscillation, poor pressurization, unexpected pitch-up at high speeds, unrecoverable spins, sudden stalls, and a particularly dangerous emergency fuel pump that could cause the aircraft to explode if improperly activated. Major Yeager later stated, "Flying the MiG-15 is the most demanding situation I have ever faced. It's a quirky airplane that has killed a lot of its pilots." Major Yeager was able to fly the aircraft to 0.98 Mach before it became dangerously uncontrollable. Despite such shortcomings, Yeager and Collins determined that the MiG-15 and F-86 were equally capable. Pilot experience and training proved to be the most important factor during dogfights. Maj. Yeager said, "The pilot with the most experience will whip your ass no matter what you're flying!" After the testing of the MiG-15, it was again disassembled and each part was scrutinized and evaluated by engineers. The Americans offered to return the aircraft to North Korea, but there was no response. The MiG-15 was crated and shipped to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Dayton, Ohio, in February 1954. From March to October 1954, the MiG-15 was tested at Eglin AFB, Florida. It was flown extensively in comparisons with the B-36, B-47, F-84 and F-86 before returning to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, in October. Further evaluation of the aircraft continued until it was damaged in a hard landing in 1956. The aircraft was donated to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force for restoration and display, where it remains. According to No Kum-Sok, the reward money of Operation Moolah would not have motivated any North Korean pilots to defect, for a number of reasons. Over the next several months following his defection, No answered numerous questions related to North Korea's military and the support it received from the Soviet Union and China. In 1954, No emigrated to the United States, where he met then-Vice President Richard Nixon. After immigrating, he anglicized his name to "Kenneth H. Rowe". In 1957, he was joined in the U.S. by his mother, who had defected from North Korea earlier in 1951. He subsequently graduated from the University of Delaware with degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering. He married an emigre from Kaesong, North Korea; they raised two sons and a daughter, and he became a U.S. citizen. He worked as an aeronautical engineer for Grumman, Boeing, Pan Am, General Dynamics, General Motors, General Electric, Lockheed, DuPont, and Westinghouse. In 1996, he wrote and published a book, A MiG-15 to Freedom, about his defection and previous life in North Korea. Rowe retired in 2000 after working 17 years as an aeronautical engineering professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. A biography of No by Blaine Harden was published in 2015 as The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom. Harden had access to newly released intelligence and to No. Rowe speaks fluent English and Korean and currently lives in Daytona Beach, Florida; he has stated that he does not regret his decision to defect from North Korea to South Korea. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-duel-over-korea-f86-sabre-vs-mig15-fagot-mp4-downloa86154.html

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April 27, 1967: Grand Openings: World's Fair Openings: -- The 1967 International And Universal Exposition (Expo 67): Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day. The 1967 International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67, as it was commonly known, was a general exhibition, Category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It is considered to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century with the most attendees to that date and 62 nations participating. It also set the single-day attendance record for a world's fair, with 569,500 visitors on its third day. Expo 67 was Canada's main celebration during its centennial year. The fair had been intended to be held in Moscow, to help the Soviet Union celebrate the Russian Revolution's 50th anniversary; however, for various reasons, the Soviets decided to cancel, and Canada was awarded it in late 1962. The project was not well supported in Canada at first. It took the determination of Montreal's mayor, Jean Drapeau, and a new team of managers to guide it past political, physical and temporal hurdles. Defying a computer analysis that said it could not be done, the fair opened on time. After Expo 67 ended in October 1967, the site and most of the pavilions continued on as an exhibition called Man and His World, open during the summer months from 1968 until 1984. By that time, most of the buildings-which had not been designed to last beyond the original exhibition-had deteriorated and were dismantled. Today, the islands that hosted the world exhibition are mainly used as parkland and for recreational use, with only a few remaining structures from Expo 67 to show that the event was held there. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/world39s-fair-and-exposition-films-d39.html

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April 27, 1969: France: The History Of France: The Modern History Of France: Governments Of France: The French Second Republic: The 1969 French Constitutional Referendum: The Resignation Of Charles De Gaulle: -- A constitutional referendum was held in France that resulted in De Gaulle's resignation as president on April 28, 1969. Alain Poher, president of the senate, became interim president of the Republic until the next elections, when Georges Pompidou came to power. The reforms of the French Constitutional Referendum would have led to government decentralization and changes to the Senate. It was rejected by 52.4% of voters, and failure of the amendments led to President Charles de Gaulle's resignation. Prior to the referendum, De Gaulle announced that if the reforms were refused, he would resign. The opposition urged people to vote no, and the general was equally hindered by popular former right-wing prime minister Georges Pompidou, who would stand as a presidential candidate if de Gaulle were to leave, reducing the fear of a power vacuum felt by the right-wing Gaullist electorate. Also, former finance minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing declared that he would not vote yes. Only the Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR), a Gaullist political party that existed from 1968 to 1976, campaigned for a yes. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/charles-de-gaulle-dvd-general-president-dual-layer-wwii.html

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April 27, 1981: Product Launches: The History Of The Computer: The History Of The Computer Industry: The History Of The Personal Computer (The History Of The PC): The Computer Mouse: The Xerox Alto: -- Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse with the release of the Xerox Alto, inspired by the PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, aka Xerox PARC) Alto, was one of the first computers designed for individual use in 1973 and is regarded as the first modern computer to use a mouse. The DISER Lilith, a computer which had been developed by a team around Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zurich between 1978 and 1980, provided a mouse as well; the third marketed version of an integrated mouse shipped as a part of a computer and intended for personal computer navigation came with the Xerox 8010 Star in 1981. By 1982, the Xerox 8010 was probably the best-known computer with a mouse. The Sun-1 also came with a mouse, and the forthcoming Apple Lisa was rumored to use one, but the peripheral remained obscure; Jack Hawley of The Mouse House reported that one buyer for a large organization believed at first that his company sold lab mice. Hawley, who manufactured mice for Xerox, stated that "Practically, I have the market all to myself right now"; a Hawley mouse cost 415 USD. In 1982, Logitech introduced the P4 Mouse at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, its first hardware mouse. That same year Microsoft made the decision to make the MS-DOS program Microsoft Word mouse-compatible, and developed the first PC-compatible mouse. Microsoft's mouse shipped in 1983, thus beginning the Microsoft Hardware division of the company. However, the mouse remained relatively obscure until the appearance of the Macintosh 128K (which included an updated version of the single-button Lisa Mouse) in 1984, and of the Amiga 1000 and the Atari ST in 1985. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-machine-that-changed-the-world-the-computer-dvd-mp4-downloa4.html

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April 27, 1986: Nuclear And Radioactive Disasters: Nuclear Disasters In The Soviet Union: Nuclear Disasters In The Ukraine: Nuclear Disasters In Belarus: The Chernobyl Disaster: -- The city of Pripyat as well as the surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster; as of 2026, and for the forseeable future, Pripyat is an abandoned industrial city. Named after the nearby Pripyat River, the city was founded on February 4, 1970, as the ninth nuclear city (a type of closed city) in the Soviet Union, to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 and had grown to a population of 49,360 by the time it was evacuated on the afternoon of April 27, 1986, the day after the Chernobyl disaster. Although Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned municipality now has the status of "city of oblast significance", a city municipality that is designated as a separate district within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), and is administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. On April 26, 1986, a nuclear reactor accident occured at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world' worst nuclear disaster. The Chernobyl Disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl Accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred between April 25-26, 1986 in the No. 4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the now-abandoned town of Pripyat, in northern Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, approximately 104 km (65 mi) north of Kiev. The event occurred during a late-night safety test which simulated a station blackout power failure, in the course of which safety systems were intentionally turned off. A combination of inherent reactor design flaws and the reactor operators arranging the core in a manner contrary to the checklist for the test, eventually resulted in uncontrolled reaction conditions. Water flashed into steam, generating a destructive steam explosion and a subsequent open-air graphite fire. This fire produced considerable updrafts for about nine days. These lofted plumes of fission products into the atmosphere. The estimated radioactive inventory that was released during this very hot fire phase approximately equaled in magnitude the airborne fission products released in the initial destructive explosion. This radioactive material precipitated onto parts of the western USSR and Europe. During the accident, steam-blast effects caused two deaths within the facility; one immediately after the explosion, and the other, compounded by a lethal dose of radiation. Over the coming days and weeks, 134 servicemen were hospitalized with acute radiation symptoms, of which 28 firemen and employees died in the days-to-months afterward from the effects of acute radiation syndrome (ARS). In addition, approximately fourteen radiation induced cancer deaths among this group of 134 hospitalized survivors were to follow within the next ten years. Among the wider population, an excess of 15 childhood thyroid cancer deaths were documented as of 2011. It will take further time and investigation to definitively determine the elevated relative risk of cancer among the surviving employees, those that were initially hospitalized with ARS and the population at large. The Chernobyl Accident is considered the most disastrous nuclear power plant accident in history, both in terms of cost and casualties. It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents classified as a level 7 event (the maximum classification) on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011. The struggle to safeguard against scenarios which were perceived as having the potential for greater catastrophe, together with later decontamination efforts of the surroundings, ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles. The remains of the No. 4 reactor building were enclosed in a large cover which was named The Object Shelter, often known as The Sarcophagus. The purpose of the structure was to reduce the spread of the remaining radioactive dust and debris from the wreckage and the protection of the wreckage from further weathering. The sarcophagus was finished in December 1986 at a time when what was left of the reactor was entering the cold shut-down phase. The enclosure was not intended as a radiation shield, but was built quickly as occupational safety for the crews of the other undamaged reactors at the power station, with No.3 continuing to produce electricity up into 2000. The accident motivated safety upgrades on all remaining Soviet-designed reactors in the RBMK (Chernobyl No. 4) family, of which eleven continued to power electric grids as of 2013. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-the-documentaries-dvd-2-disc2.html

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April 27, 1987: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah): The Holocaust In Greece: The Holocaust In Yugoslavia: The Waldheim Affair: -- The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the USA, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II, and announcing that evidence amassed in an investigation conducted by the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) had established a prima facie case that Waldheim participated in Nazi-sponsored persecution during World War II and therefore that his entry into the United States was prohibited by federal statute. This marked the first time that a head of state had been put on an immigration watchlist. The 232-page internal Department of Justice April 9, 1987 investigative report was released in 1994 by that agency, and it is available at the agency's website. The report catalogues evidence that, the U.S. government concluded, proved that Waldheim had taken part in, among other actions: the transfer of civilian prisoners to the SS for exploitation as slave labor; the mass deportation of civilians - including Jews from Greek islands and the town of Banja Luka, Yugoslavia - to concentration and death camps; the utilization of anti-Semitic propaganda; the mistreatment and execution of Allied prisoners; and reprisal executions of hostages and other civilians. Additional allegations of participation in Nazi crimes, with citations to captured Nazi documents and other records, were leveled in a 1993 book by Eli Rosenbaum, the former U.S. federal prosecutor who had directed the World Jewish Congress investigation that led to the New York Times' initial exposure of Waldheim's hidden Nazi-era past in 1986. The authors also cited evidence that the governments of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia had covered up Waldheim's wartime past and used it to blackmail him before and during his tenure as United Nations Secretary General, and that the U.S. intelligence community had committed a major error in failing to detect the Cold War weaponization of that information by the two communist governments. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-man-who-lived-a-lie-kurt-waldheim-dvd.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27, 1989: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: Democracy Movements Of China : The Revolutions Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of Communism): The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests And Massacre (The June Fourth Incident, The Tiananmen Square Massacre., The '89 Democracy Movement, The Tiananmen Square Incident, The Tiananmen Uprising): The April 27 Demonstrations: -- Massive student-led protests occur in response to The April 26 Editorial, an editorial published in the Chinese newspaper, The People's Daily, that defined the student movement as a destabilizing anti-party revolt that should be resolutely opposed at all levels of society. As the first authoritative document from the top leadership on the growing movement, it was widely interpreted as having communicated the party's position of "no-tolerance" to student protesters and their sympathizers. The content of the editorial incited the largest student protest of the movement thus far in Beijing: 50,000-200,000 students marched through the streets of Beijing before finally breaking through police lines into Tiananmen Square. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-1989-tiananmen-square-protests-dvd-mp4-usb-19894.html

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Today, April 27, 2026

April 27, 1992: The Aftermath Of The Cold War: The Post-Cold War Era: The Breakup Of Yugoslavia: The Yugoslav Wars: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbian: Savezna Republika Jugoslavija) (FR Yugoslavia [FRY], Yugoslavia): -- The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed. Known from 2003 to 2006 as Serbia And Montenegro, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia). The country bordered Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, Macedonia to the south, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west, and Albania to the southwest. The state was founded on 27 April 1992 as a federation comprising the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro. In February 2003, it was transformed from a federal republic to a political union until Montenegro seceded from the union in June 2006, leading to the full independence of both Serbia and Montenegro. Its aspirations to be the sole legal successor state to SFR Yugoslavia were not recognized by the United Nations, following the passing of United Nations Security Council Resolution 777, which affirmed that the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had ceased to exist, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a new state. All former republics were entitled to state succession while none of them continued SFR Yugoslavia's international legal personality. However, the government of Slobodan Milosevic opposed any such claims, and as such, FR Yugoslavia was not allowed to join the United Nations. Throughout its existence, FR Yugoslavia had a tense relationship with the international community, as economic sanctions were issued against the state during the course of the Yugoslav Wars and Kosovo War. This also resulted in hyperinflation between 1992 and 1994. FR Yugoslavia's involvement in the Yugoslav Wars ended with the Dayton Agreement, which recognized the independence of the Republics of Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as establishing diplomatic relationships between the states, and a guaranteed role of the Serbian population within Bosnian politics. Later on, growing separatism within the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, a region of Serbia heavily populated by ethnic Albanians, resulted in an insurrection by the Kosovo Liberation Army, an Albanian separatist group. The outbreak of the Kosovo War reintroduced Western sanctions, as well as eventual Western involvement in the conflict. The conflict ended with the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244, which guaranteed economic and political separation of Kosovo from FR Yugoslavia, to be placed under UN Administration. Economic hardship and war resulted in growing discontent with the government of Slobodan Milosevic and his allies, who ran both Serbia and Montenegro as an effective dictatorship. This would eventually cumulate in the Bulldozer revolution, which saw his government overthrown, and replaced by one led by the Democratic Opposition of Serbia and Vojislav Kostunica, which also joined the UN. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ended in 2003 after the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia voted to enact the Constitutional Charter of Serbia and Montenegro, which established the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. As such, the name Yugoslavia was consigned to history. A growing independence movement in Montenegro, led by Milo Dukanovic meant that the Constitution of Serbia and Montenegro included a clause allowing for a referendum on the question of Montenegrin independence, after a period of three years had passed. In 2006, the referendum was called, and passed, by a narrow margin. This led to the dissolution of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, and the establishment of the independent republics of Serbia and Montenegro, turning Serbia into a landlocked country. This can be considered the last act which finalized the dissolution of Yugoslavia. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-crimes-in-bosnia-the-bosnian-war-mp4-video-download-or-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Super Sense Animal Perception/Plant Adaptation TV Series DVD, MP4, USB
Today, April 27, 2026
April 27: Free Feral Cat Spay Day: -- A national holiday that focuses on helping feral cats get spayed and have basic health examinations. A lot of individuals tend to leave out a dish of fresh cat food and water for feral cats where they live. These feral cats are not pampered pets and have to fend for themselves. During this holiday, an ear tip is also applied to readily identify the cat as changed, preventing future trapping and transport for unnecessary surgery. Free Feral Cat Spay Day is an annual event that tries to raise awareness about the significance of spaying and neutering programs to reduce feral pet numbers. A multitude of effective methods are used to reduce feral populations all around the world. These activities are aimed at feral cats in both neighborhoods and shelters. Feral cats are domestic cats with no known owner. They live outdoors and often avoid being touched or handled by humans. Cats are supposed to have originated in Egypt and spread over most of the world. They were revered in ancient Egypt for their ability to destroy rats and deadly snakes. The necessity to keep rodents from eating or contaminating grain crops kept for later human use may have been the initial motivation for domesticating cats. However, it is unknown if cats were domesticated in Ancient Egypt or were brought there after they had been tamed. According to history, Phoenician traders transported them to Europe to reduce rat infestations, and monks brought them further into Asia. Cats were also disseminated by the Roman legions, who eventually took them to Britain. They have continued to be introduced to other places since then, most frequently by sailors or settlers. These animals are assumed to have arrived in Australia via Dutch shipwrecks in the 1600s or English settlers in the late 1700s. Domesticated cats are known to begin creating feral colonies after their young moved away from human interaction. Several cat specimens were characterized as wildcat subspecies in the 19th and 20th centuries, which are now regarded as feral cat populations. https://store.earthstation1.com/super-sense--animal-perception-tv-series-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

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Today, April 27, 2026
April 27: National Little Pampered Dog Day: -- Celebrate the dog owners who provide their little furry friends with the extra tender love and care that they deserve. Not all dogs experience the same treatment from their owners, so this day is to appreciate those who give their absolute best to keep their dogs happy. National Little Pampered Dog Day was first celebrated on April 27, 2016, and has been every year since then. It was initiated by the founders of "Little Pampered Dog" magazine, and the intention of the holiday is not only to celebrate dog owners who treat their pooches exceptionally well but also to bring awareness to the plight of dogs around the world who are not lucky enough to be living in loving conditions. It puts forth the importance of keeping dogs happy and healthy, as they should be. Many people show their affection and appreciation to their dogs by pampering them, going the extra mile to ensure that they stay happy, healthy beings. This can mean dressing them up in nice outfits (if they allow you to), taking them to their favorite places, spending an extra amount of time playing in the park, or just treating them to their favorite treats and toys. However, pampering them does not always mean treating them luxuriously. Treating them as one of your own and maintaining comfortable lifestyles for them are also part of expressing your love for them. Signs of a very, adored dog depend on how close they want to be to you. If you know they are extremely comfortable around you, then that's the sign of a loved dog. Keep it up! For many people, dogs are also a member of the family, and like family, they deserve the appropriate care and consideration. They are living beings that are entitled to the same rights that any living being deserves: good shelter, adequate food, and proper treatment. Despite taking place on April 27, National Little Pampered Dog Day can be celebrated all year-round, as dogs don't really need a specific day to be treated well. Always keep them happy, treat and train them to become the best canine they can be, and you've got yourself a friend for life. https://store.earthstation1.com/lost-ernie-kovacs-dual-layer-dvd-old-time-tv-shows.html

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Today, April 27, 2026
April 27: World Design Day: -- A day that marks how design can change the world. Design has far-reaching impacts on our daily lives - much more than we realize. It exists in beautiful things around us - decor, artwork, landscaping. Design elevates the mundane, too. From flyers and roads to the chairs we sit on. Have you ever stopped to appreciate the high-tech sports gear you wear? Or the pedestrian path that makes walking such a pleasure? That's the beauty of good design. It's meaningful, inspirational, and exists all around us. For most people, design is an ambiguous term. What appeals to one person or not is highly subjective. However, brilliant design will always achieve three core objectives. It is memorable, inspirational, and educational. The idea behind World Design Day came from Kim Paulsen, V.P. of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ico-D). The first edition was held on April 27, 1995, but it was named World Graphics Day then. The initiative recognizes how design makes everyday life both beautiful and meaningful. The day celebrates all design aspects - aesthetics, form, and function. It also promotes several areas of design - visual communication, graphic design, awareness, promotion, management, and training worldwide. World Design Day aims to inspire and raise general awareness of the value of design. Far from an abstract concept, design can change the world. History has ample examples. Great design is everywhere in our immediate environments. We only need to pause and take notice. Think innocuous objects like the stairs, tiles on the ground, or the packaging of our favorite items. We know that design makes things look good. But in its various forms, the ultimate aim of the design is to improve the quality of life. It can dismantle barriers and make the world accessible to everyone. From wheelchairs that help you stand to phones that connect you to loved ones - good design makes life beautiful and the impossible achievable. On World Design Day, designers everywhere celebrate their profession. The day calls on designers to harness their talents to improve public well-being. To channel their abilities to innovative solutions that meet the needs of their families, friends, and local environment. https://store.earthstation1.com/perspectives-on-20th-century-architecture-japan-d20.html

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Today, April 27, 2026
April 27: The Day Of Uprising Against Occupation (Resistance Day. Liberation Front Day) (Slovenia): -- April 27, 1941: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World War II: The Balkans Campaign (World War II): The Invasion Of Yugoslavia (The April War, Operation 25): World War II In The Slovene Lands: The Nazi Occupation Of Slovene Lands: The Founding Of The Liberation Front Of The Slovene Nation (Resistance Day. Liberation Front Day): -- The Liberation Front Of The Slovene Nation (Slovene: Osvobodilna Fronta Slovenskega Naroda), or simply Liberation Front (Osvobodilna Fronta, OF), originally called the Anti-Imperialist Front (Protiimperialisticna Fronta, PIF), is founded as a Slovene anti-fascist political party. The Anti-Imperialist Front originally had ideological ties to the Soviet Union (which was at the time in a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany) in its fight against the imperialistic tendencies of the United States and the United Kingdom (the western powers), and it was led by the Communist Party of Slovenia. However, in May 1941, weeks into the German occupation of Yugoslavia, in the first wartime issue of the illegal newspaper Slovenski Porocevalec (Slovenian Reporter), members of the organization criticized the German regime and described Germans as imperialists. They started raising money for a liberation fund via the second issue of the newspaper published on 8 June 1941. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union, the Anti-Imperialist Front was formally renamed and became the main anti-fascist Slovene civil resistance and political organization under the guidance and control of the Slovene communists. It was active in the Slovene Lands during World War II. Its military arm was the Slovene Partisans. The organisation was established in the Province of Ljubljana on 26 April 1941 in the house of the literary critic Josip Vidmar. Its leaders were Boris Kidric and Edvard Kardelj. The Day Of Uprising Against Occupation is a Slovenian state holiday commemorated annually in recognition of the April 6, 1941 overrunning of Slovenia by the Nazis and their allies fascist Italy and Hungary, as well as in honor of the April 27, 1941 foundation of The Liberation Front Of The Slovene Nation to fight the German, Italian, Hungarian, and Croatian partition and annexation of Slovenia, a force that evolved into a military force fighting fascist regimes in response to foreign occupation. Slovenia has been inhabited since the prehistoric period. Human habitation can be traced back to roughly 250,000 years ago. During World War II, Slovenia was the only modern-day European country to be divided and annexed by both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. In addition, Hungary acquired the Prekmurje region in the east, and the newly formed Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia included certain villages in the Lower Sava Valley (N.D.H). In south-central Slovenia, which Fascist Italy had occupied and renamed the Province of Ljubljana, the Slovenian National Liberation Front was established in April 1941. The Yugoslav Partisans, led by Communist Party leader Josip Broz Tito, including the Slovene Partisan units, were established. To bring parliamentary democracy to Slovenia, several constitutional changes were adopted in September 1989. On March 7, 1990, the Slovenian Assembly changed the nation's name officially to the Republic of Slovenia. April 1990 marked the first democratic elections in Slovenia. On December 23, 1990, the majority of voters chose to establish Slovenia as a sovereign and independent nation. On June 25, 1991, Slovenia declared its independence. The United Nations welcomed Slovenia as a member on May 22, 1992, and the European Union recognized Slovenia as an independent state in 1992. https://store.earthstation1.com/great-days-of-the-century-world-war-ii-all-3-episodes-dual-layer-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Columbus & The Age Of Discovery TV Series + Bonus MP4 Download DVD Set
Today, April 27, 2026
April 27, 1521: #DOTD: #RIP: (Lapu-Lapu Day by edict of Filipino President Duterte): -- Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernao de Magalhaes; Spanish: Fernando de Magallanes), Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519 Spanish expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific Ocean to open a maritime trade route, during which he discovered the interoceanic passage bearing thereafter his name, The Straits Of Magellan, and achieved the first European navigation from the Atlantic to Asia (b. February 4, 1480) #dies when he is killed during this voyage during The Battle Of Mactan by natives in the present-day Philippines after running into resistance from the indigenous population led by Lapulapu, who consequently became a Philippine national symbol of resistance to colonialism. His body was kept as a trophy by the warriors of Lapulapu, and was never recovered; his burial details, if any, are not publicly disclosed. After Magellan's death, Juan Sebastian Elcano took the lead of the expedition, and with its few other surviving members in one of the two remaining ships, completed the first circumnavigation of Earth when they returned to Spain in 1522. Born Fernao de Magalhaes in Northern Portugal (the exact birth location is disputed; possible locations include Porto, Sabrosa, Vila Nova de Gaia and Ponte da Barca; the Casa De Fernao Magalhaes is believed by the people of Sabrosa to be his birthplace) into a family of minor Portuguese nobility, Magellan became a skilled sailor and naval officer in service of the Portuguese Crown in Asia. King Manuel refused to support Magellan's plan to reach the Maluku Islands (the "Spice Islands") by sailing westwards around the American continent. Facing criminal charges, Magellan left Portugal and proposed the same expedition to King Charles I of Spain, who accepted it. Consequently, many in Portugal considered him a traitor and he never returned. In Seville he married, fathered two children, and organised the expedition. For his allegiance to the Hispanic Monarchy, in 1518, Magellan was appointed an admiral of the Spanish fleet and given command of the expedition - the five-ship Armada of Molucca. He was also made Commander of the Order of Santiago, one of the highest military ranks of the Spanish Empire. Granted special powers and privileges by the King, he led the Armada from Sanlucar de Barrameda southwest across the Atlantic Ocean, to the eastern coast of South America, and down to Patagonia. Despite a series of storms and mutinies, the expedition successfully passed through the Strait of Magellan (as it is now named) into the Mar del Sur, which Magellan renamed the Mar Pacifico (the modern Pacific Ocean). The expedition reached Guam and, shortly after, the Philippine islands. There Magellan was killed in the Battle of Mactan in April 1521. Under the command of captain Juan Sebastian Elcano, the expedition later reached the Spice Islands. To navigate back to Spain and avoid seizure by the Portuguese, the expedition's two remaining ships split, one attempting, unsuccessfully, to reach New Spain by sailing eastwards across the Pacific, while the other, commanded by Elcano, sailed westwards via the Indian Ocean and up the Atlantic coast of Africa, finally arriving at the expedition's port of departure and thereby completing the first complete circuit of the globe. While in the Kingdom of Portugal's service, Magellan had already reached the Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia on previous voyages traveling east (from 1505 to 1511-1512). By visiting this area again but now traveling west, Magellan achieved a nearly complete personal circumnavigation of the globe for the first time in history. https://store.earthstation1.com/columbus-and-the-age-of-discovery-epic-7-hourlong-episode-tv-serie7.html

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Today, April 27, 2026
April 27, 1994: South Africa: The History Of South Africa: Elections And Referendums In South Africa: The 1994 South African General Election (Freedom Day): -- The day after multiracial elections were held for the first time in the history of South Africa, the Interim Constitution comes into force, the fundamental law of South Africa until it was superseded by the final constitution on February 4, 1997. As a transitional constitution it required the newly elected Parliament to also serve as a constituent assembly to adopt a final constitution. It made provision for a major restructuring of government as a consequence of the abolition of apartheid. It also introduced an entrenched Bill Of Rights against which legislation and government action could be tested, and created the Constitutional Court with broad powers of judicial review. The South African General Election Of 1994 (Freedom Day) was held between April 26-29, 1994. The election was conducted under the direction of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), and marked the culmination of the four-year process that ended apartheid. Millions queued in lines over a four-day voting period. Altogether 19,726,579 votes were counted and 193,081 were rejected as invalid. As widely expected, the African National Congress (ANC), whose slate incorporated the labour confederation COSATU and the South African Communist Party, won a sweeping victory, taking 62 percent of the vote, just short of the two-thirds majority required to unilaterally amend the Interim Constitution. As required by that document, the ANC formed a Government of National Unity with the National Party and the Inkatha Freedom Party, the two other parties that won more than 20 seats in the National Assembly. The new National Assembly's first act was to elect Nelson Mandela as President, making him the country's first black chief executive. F.W. de Klerk became vice president. The date April 27 is now a public holiday in South Africa, Freedom Day. https://store.earthstation1.com/apartheid-documentaries-dvd-racial-segregation-in-south-africa.html

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April 17, 1984: #DOTD: #RIP: Mark Clark, United States Army officer who saw service during World War I, World War II, and the Korean War dies. (b. May 1, 1896) #dies aged 87 in Charleston, South Carolina, where he had been president of The Citadel Military College Of South Carolina (The Citadel) from 1954 until his retirement in 1965, He was buried on the campus of The Citadel. Mark Clark was the last surviving American officer who had held four-star rank during World War II. Mark Clark was born Mark Wayne Clark in Madison Barracks, New York. Mark W. Clark was the youngest four-star general in the United States Army during World War II. During World War I, he was a company commander and served in France in 1918, as a 22-year old captain, where he was seriously wounded by shrapnel. After the war, the future U.S. Army Chief Of Staff, General George Marshall, noticed Clark's abilities. During World War II, he commanded the United States Fifth Army, and later the 15th Army Group, in the Italian campaign. He is known for leading the Fifth Army in its capture of Rome in June 1944, with an honor guard of Japanese-American soldiers in recognition of their contributions to the Italian Campaign. Clark has been heavily criticized for ignoring the orders of his superior officer, British General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, and allowing the German 10th Army to slip away, in his drive to take Rome, the capital of Italy, a strategically unimportant city. The German 10th Army then joined with the rest of the German army group at the Trasimene Line. In March 1945, Clark, at the age of 48, became the youngest American officer ever to be promoted to the rank of four star general. General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, a close friend of Clark's, considered him a brilliant staff officer and trainer of men. Clark was awarded many medals, including the Distinguished Service Cross, the U.S. Army's second highest award. A legacy of the "Clark task force" that he led in 1953-1955, which reviewed and made recommendations on all federal intelligence activities, is the term "Intelligence Community". Clark's views on race were mixed. Clark was segregationist who held racist and nativist views. He associated un-Americanism and communism with unassimilated immigrants, whose "less desirable qualities of their former nationalities" had not been erased by the "melting pot." He said World War I had provided the country with a valuable lesson on "undigested groups" with "no knowledge of and respect for American institutions." At the same time, Clark was an ardent Germanophobe who thought Nazi war crimes reflected the inherent "cruelty ... of the German people." At one point, he said U.S. troops had to abandon "soft ideas of sportsmanship and fair play" when fighting Germany, in his words, "Our men must kill Germans as they would kill rattlesnakes or scorpions." On the other hand, he held Japanese American soldiers in highest regard, having seen them distinguish themselves in battle under his command. When Clark entered Rome immediately after its fall from Axis control, Clark insisted that a contingent of Japanese American soldiers served as an honor guard to accompany him into the city, in honor of their sacrifices and service in the Italian Campaign. The racism of some white American officers towards them these Japanese American troops induced so much animosity among those white officers who admired them that it caused these latter to push for what ultimately became the desegregation of the United States Armed Forces by way of Executive Order 9981 by President Harry S. Truman, an executive order issued on July 26, 1948 that abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in America's armed services. #GeneralMarkClark #WorldWarI #WorldWarOne #WorldWar1 #WWI #WW1 #FirstWorldWar #FirstEuropeanWar #WarToEndAllWars #TheWarToEndAllWars #TheGreatWar #EuropeanCivilWar #WorldWarII #WWII #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #WorldWar2 #SecondWorldWar #SecondEuropeanWar #ItalianCampaign #ItalianCampaignWWII #US5thArmy #KoreanWar #KoreanConflict #ColdWars #FourStarGenerals #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD https://store.earthstation1.com/john-huston-wwii-films-battle-of-san-pietro-december-7th-dv7.html

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Today, April 27, 2026
April 27, 1965: #DOTD: #RIP: Edward R. Murrow KBE, American broadcast journalist and war correspondent (b. April 25, 1908) #dies at his home in Pawling, New York, on April 27, 1965, two days after his 57th birthday, of lung cancer caused by years of smoking some three packs of cigarettes a day. He is buried at Worthington Center Cemetery in Worthington, Massachusetts. His colleague and friend Eric Sevareid said of him, "He was a shooting star; and we will live in his afterglow a very long time." CBS carried a memorial program, which included a rare on-camera appearance by William S. Paley, founder of CBS. Edward R. Murrow was born Egbert Roscoe Murrow at Polecat Creek, near Greensboro, in Guilford County, North Carolina. Murrow first gained prominence in the years before and during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). He recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys, which included William L. Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, Howard K. Smith, Richard C. Hottelet and others. A pioneer of radio and television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of reports on his television program See It Now which helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy. He is considered one of journalism's greatest figures generally and broadcast journalism particularly, noted for his honesty and integrity in delivering the news. https://store.earthstation1.com/edward-r-murrow-world-war-ii-radio-broadcasts-mp3-c3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Benito Mussolini Documentaries DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Drive
Today, April 27, 2026
April 27, 1945: The European Civil War: World War II: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World War II: The Italian Campaign Of World War II (The Liberation Of Italy): The Italian Civil War (Italian: Guerra Civile Italiana): -- Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are arrested in Dongo, Lombardy by two communist partisans known by the nom de guerre (war name) they used, Valerio and Bellini, and Mussolini identified by the Political Commissar of the partisans' 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, Urbano Lazzaro. After several unsuccessful attempts to take them to Como they were brought to Mezzegra, and they spent their last night in the house of the De Maria family. The next day, Mussolini and Petacci both received a summary execution, shot along with most of the members of their 15-man train, primarily ministers and officials of the Italian Social Republic. The bodies were then hung upside down and pelted with stones by jeering crowds in Milan. https://store.earthstation1.com/benito-mussolini-dvd-wwii-documentaries.html

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Today, April 27, 2026
April 27, 1974: Political Scandals Of The United States: Richard Nixon: The Presidency Of Richard Nixon: The Watergate Scandal: The Impeachment Process Against Richard Nixon: -- In a demonstration sponsored by the National Campaign to Impeach Nixon, ten thousand people march in Washington, D.C. to urge lawmakers to speed up impeachment of President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate Scandal. The march passed the White House and the Washington Monument. It was the first major protest in a year in the nation's capitol, but fewer than expected numbers turned out for the march, and mostly all were young people; by August, public opinion had shifted strongly in favor of Nixon's impeachment, contributing to his resignation of the Presidency. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-final-days-dvd-1989-pres-nixon-resignation-docudrama-2-dis19892.html

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Today, April 27, 2026
April 27, 1978: Scandals: Political Scandals: Political Scandals Of The United States: Richard Nixon: The Presidency Of Richard Nixon: The Watergate Scandal: -- Former United States President Nixon aide John Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes. John Daniel Ehrlichman (March 20, 1925 - February 14, 1999), American lawyer and politician, 12th White House Counsel, counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon, was born John Daniel Ehrlichman in Tacoma, Washington, the son of Lillian Catherine (nee Danielson) and Rudolph Irwin Ehrlichman into a family that practiced Christian Science after his converted from Judaism. Ehrlichman received the Distinguished Flying Cross as a lead B-24 navigator in the Eighth Air Force. John Daniel Ehrlichman was counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. Ehrlichman was an important influence on Nixon's domestic policy, coaching him on issues and enlisting his support for environmental initiatives. He was a key figure in events leading to the Watergate break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal, for which he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury. In his later years he wrote political novels under his own name and science fiction novels under pseudonyms. John Ehrlichman died In 2016, a quote from Ehrlichman was the lead-in for the April 2016 anti-drug war article "Legalize It All: How To Win The War On Drugs" in Harper's Magazine by journalist Dan Baum: "You want to know what this was really all about?" he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." Baum states that Ehrlichman offered this quote in a 1994 interview for Baum's 1996 book "Smoke And Mirrors: The War On Drugs And The Politics Of Failure", but that he did not include it in that book or otherwise publish it for 22 years "because it did not fit the narrative style" of the book. John Ehrlichman died aged 73 in Atlanta, Georgia of complications from diabetes after discontinuing dialysis treatments. His remains were cremated, and the ashes given to his wife Karen Hilliard. #JohnEhrlichman #JohnDEhrlichman #Watergate #WatergateScandal #Impeachment #WatergateCoverUp #WatergateBurglary #WatergateBreakIn #WatergateBurglars #WatergateSeven #Watergate7 #Conspiracy #Burglary #PresidencyOfRichardNixon #ImpeachmentProcessAgainstRichardNixon #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD https://store.earthstation1.com/the-key-to-watergate-call-girl-scandal-investigation-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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April 27, 1996: #DOTD: #RIP: William Colby, American intelligence officer, 10th Director of Central Intelligence (b. January 4, 1920) #dies; his body is found on May 6, 1996 washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared. On April 27, 1996, Colby set out from his weekend home in Rock Point, Maryland on a solo canoe trip. His canoe was found the following day on a sandbar in the Wicomico River, a tributary of the Potomac, approximately a quarter mile from his home. On May 6, Colby's body was found in a marshy riverbank lying facedown not far from where his canoe was found. After an autopsy, Maryland's Chief Medical Examiner John E. Smialek ruled his death to be accidental. Smialek's report noted that Colby was predisposed to having a heart attack or stroke due to "severe calcified atherosclerosis" and that Colby likely "suffered a complication of this atherosclerosis which precipitated him into the cold water in a debilitated state and he succumbed to the effects of hypothermia and drowned". Colby's death triggered conspiracy theories that his death was due to foul play. In his 2011 documentary The Man Nobody Knew, Colby's son Carl suggested that his father suffered from guilt due to his actions in the CIA and committed suicide; his father had once told him that "One day you'll hear that I was walking on a goat path on a Greek island and I fell to the sea.". Carl's step-mother and siblings, as well as Colby's biographer Randall Woods, criticized Carl's portrayal of William Colby, and rejected the allegation that the former CIA director killed himself, citing it as being inconsistent with his character. William Egan Colby, was born on 1920. He spent a career in intelligence for the United States, culminating in holding the post of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from September 1973 to January 1976. During World War II Colby served with the Office of Strategic Services. After the war he joined the newly created Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Before and during the Vietnam War, Colby served as chief of station in Saigon, chief of the CIA's Far East Division, and head of the Civil Operations and Rural Development effort, as well as overseeing the Phoenix Program. After Vietnam, Colby became director of central intelligence and during his tenure, under intense pressure from the United States Congress and the media, adopted a policy of relative openness about U.S. intelligence activities to the Senate Church Committee and House Pike Committee. Colby served as DCI under President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford and was replaced with future president George H. W. Bush on January 30, 1976. https://store.earthstation1.com/cia-the-secret-files-the-central-intelligence-agency-tv-series-mp4-dv4.html

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April 27, 1986: #DOTD: #RIP: J. Allen Hynek, American astronomer, professor, and ufologist (b. May 1, 1910) #dies of a malignant brain tumor at Memorial Hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona, aged 75. His burial details are unknown; there is that chance that he is interred next to his parents in Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois as there is an unmarked tombstone placed next to theirs. He was born Josef Allen Hynek in Chicago, Illinois to Czech parents. Best remembered for his UFO research, Hynek acted as scientific advisor to UFO studies undertaken by the U.S. Air Force under three consecutive projects: Project Sign (1947-1949), Project Grudge (1949-1952), and Project Blue Book (1952-1969). In later years he conducted his own independent UFO research, developing the "Close Encounter" classification system. He was among the first people to conduct scientific analysis of reports and especially of trace evidence purportedly left by UFOs. https://store.earthstation1.com/ufos-what39s-going-on-dvd-1985-tv-docum391985.html

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April 27, 1932: #DOTD: #RIP: Hart Crane, American poet (b. July 21, 1899) #dies when just before noon he jumped overboard into the Gulf of Mexico from the steamship Orizaba, en route to New York from Mexico, after he was beaten up after making sexual advances to a male crew member. Although he had been drinking heavily and left no suicide note, witnesses believed his intentions to be suicidal, as several reported that he exclaimed "Goodbye, everybody!" before throwing himself overboard. His body was never recovered. A marker on his father's tombstone at Park Cemetery outside Garrettsville, Portage County, Ohio includes the inscription, "Harold Hart Crane 1899-1932 lost at sea". Hart Crane was born Harold Hart Crane in Garrettsville, Ohio. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Hart Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, The Bridge, Crane sought to write an epic poem, in the vein of The Waste Land, that expressed a more optimistic view of modern, urban culture than the one that he found in Eliot's work. In the years following his suicide at the age of 32, Crane has been hailed by playwrights, poets, and literary critics alike (including Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Tennessee Williams, and Harold Bloom), as being one of the most influential poets of his generation. https://store.earthstation1.com/hart-crane-dvd-biography-poetry-documentary.html

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April 27, 1667: Literature: The History Of Literature: The History Of English Literature: John Milton: Paradise Lost: -- John Milton sells the publication rights for Paradise Lost to publisher Samuel Simmons for 5PS (equivalent to approximately 770PS in 2015), with a further 5PS to be paid if and when each print run sold out of between 1,300 and 1,500 copies. The first run was a quarto edition priced at three shillings per copy (about 23PS in 2015 purchasing power equivalent), published in August 1667, and it sold out in eighteen months. Paradise Lost, Milton's magnum opus, is an epic poem in blank verse. It was composed by the blind and impoverished Milton from 1658 to 1664 (first edition), with small but significant revisions published in 1674 (second edition). Having gone blind in 1752, Milton dictated his verse to a series of aides in his employ; French Romantic Master Eugene Delacroix commemorates this dictation with his 1826 painting "Milton Dictates The Lost Paradise To His Three Daughters". It has been argued that the poem reflects his personal despair at the failure of the English Civil War to ensure a parliamentarian rather than a royalist government; despite this the work yet affirms an ultimate optimism in human potential. Some literary critics have argued that Milton encoded many references to his unyielding support for the "Good Old Cause", the name given, retrospectively, by the soldiers of the New Model Army (the standing army of the Parliamentarians0 to the complex of reasons that motivated their fight on behalf of the Parliament of England. The first version of Paradise Lost, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout. It is considered to be Milton's masterpiece, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of all time. The poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton followed up Paradise Lost with its sequel Paradise Regained, which was published alongside the tragedy Samson Agonistes in 1671. Both of these works also reflect Milton's post-Restoration political situation. Just before his death in 1674, Milton supervised a second edition of Paradise Lost, accompanied by an explanation of "why the poem rhymes not", and prefatory verses by Andrew Marvell. John Milton, English poet and philosopher, man of letters and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell, best known for his epic blank verse poem Paradise Lost (December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) was born in London on December 9, 1608 in Bread Street, London, the son of composer John Milton and his wife Sarah Jeffrey. The senior John Milton (1562-1647) moved to London around 1583 after being disinherited by his devout Catholic father Richard "the Ranger" Milton for embracing Protestantism. John Milton wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Milton' poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated Areopagitica (1644), written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship, is among history' most influential and impassioned defences of free speech and freedom of the press. On April 27, 1667 Milton, blind and impoverished, sold the copyright of Paradise Lost for 10 pounds sterling. Considered second only to Shakespeare in importance, his works include Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, the pamphlets Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and Pro Populo Anglicano. John Milton died aged 65 at Bunhill Row, London, England. Sources differ as to whether the cause of death was consumption or gout. He is buried in the church of St Giles-Without-Cripplegate, Fore Street, London. According to an early biographer, his funeral was attended by "his learned and great Friends in London, not without a friendly concourse of the Vulgar." A monument was added in 1793, sculpted by John Bacon the Elder. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-romantic-spirit-tv-series-all-14-episodes-5-dual-layer-d145.html

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April 27, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! John Shrapnel, English actor known mainly for his stage work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in the United Kingdom and for his many television appearances, as well as his well-known role as Mr. Skinner in the 1996 live-action film 101 Dalmatians (d. February 14, 2020) is #born John Morley Shrapnel in Birmingham, Warwickshire (now West Midlands), the son of journalist/author Norman Shrapnel and Mary Lillian Myfanwy (nee Edwards). His ancestor Henry Shrapnel gave the name "Shrapnel" (fragments from an explosive device) to the English language. Shrapnel was brought up in Stockport and London, being educated at Mile End School, Stockport where he started acting as a member of the school's drama society, and the City of London School, an independent school for boys in the City of London, where he played Hamlet in the School Play, followed by St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he obtained an MA. As a stage actor, Shrapnel was a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared as Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre in 2011. Shrapnel also appeared extensively on television in roles from the 1960s onwards. He played the Earl of Sussex in Elizabeth R and Alexander Hardinge in Edward & Mrs. Simpson. He appeared in Z-Cars, Space: 1999, Inspector Morse, GBH, Coogan's Run, Foyle's War, and many other dramas. He presented an episode of the 1983 BBC television travel series Great Little Railways. He performed in three of the BBC Television Shakespeare plays and as Creon in the BBC's productions of the Three Theban plays (1986) of Sophocles. He also played Pompey in the second episode of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire and the Jail Warden in The 10th Kingdom. His film career included roles in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Pope Joan (1972), Hennessy (1975), Personal Services (1987), Testimony (1988), How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989), England, My England (1995), 101 Dalmatians (1996) as Mr. Skinner, Notting Hill (1999), The Body (2001), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), and Alien Autopsy (2006). He has also appeared in historical films such as Gladiator (2000) as Senator Gaius, and in Troy (2004) as Nestor. In Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), he played Lord Howard and The Duchess (2008) as General Grey. Shrapnel had the rare distinction of appearing in two episodes of Midsomer Murders as two characters in "Death in Chorus" and "Written in Blood." He appeared in Jonathan Creek episode "The Omega Man" as Professor Lance Graumann. He appears in Chemical Wedding alongside Simon Callow, telling the tale of the resurrection of occultist Aleister Crowley. He played John Christie (from a 1980s case) in "Solidarity" of Waking the Dead. He also had experience in the field of BBC radio drama: He played Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse (opposite Robert Glenister as Sgt. Lewis) and starred in William Gibson's Neuromancer. Shrapnel played the character Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Felsham in the New Tricks episode The Fourth Man (2010). He also narrated episodes of Wild Discovery. Shrapnel was the son-in-law of Deborah Kerr and Tony Bartley through his 1975 marriage to their younger daughter Francesca Ann Bartley. He and Francesca had three sons, the writer Joe Shrapnel (b. 1976) and the actors Lex Shrapnel (b. 1979) and Tom Shrapnel (b. 1981). Shrapnel lived the last years of his life with his family in Highbury, north London. John Shrapnel died of lung cancer at his home in Suffolk, East Anglia, England at the age of 77. His burial details are unknown. https://store.earthstation1.com/antigone-sophocles-greek-tragedy-dvd.html

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Today, April 27, 2026
April 27, 1999: #DOTD: #RIP: Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. November 7, 1922) #dies of liver failure at the age of 76, after having spent the previous year in a wheelchair due to edema in his leg. He is buried at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana. Al Hirt was born Alois Maxwell Hirt in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hirt is best remembered for his million-selling recordings of "Java" and the accompanying album Honey in the Horn (1963), and for the theme music to The Green Hornet. His nicknames included "Jumbo" and "The Round Mound of Sound". Colin Escott, an author of musician biographies, wrote that RCA Victor Records, for which Hirt had recorded most of his best-selling recordings and for which he had spent much of his professional recording career, had dubbed him with another moniker: "The King." Hirt was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in November 2009. https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

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Today, April 27, 2026
April 27: National Alicia Day: -- This is the day for you to spend time with anyone you know with this name or to celebrate the famous Alicias around the globe from Alicia Keys to Alicia Rhett. Give a shoutout to any Alicia you know to let them know they are loved! Read on to find out more about the interesting history of this name. Alicia is a feminine name meaning 'noble natured.' The name is pronounced as 'ah-liss-ee-ah' or 'ah-lee-cee-uh' in Europe and as 'ah-lee-sha' in English and Spanish. The name Alicia comes from the Germanic 'Adelheid' - which produced the English form, Adelaide - and it is a variant of the name Alice. 'Adelheid' is an Old High German name meaning 'nobility' that goes back to the early Middle Ages. From the name, Adelheid, Adelaide was derived. From this, the Old French shortened the name to Alice. Old High German is the earliest stage of the German language, and it covers a group of Germanic dialects. This language used both Latin and runic writing forms. Both German and French come from the same proto-language. Some French terms were derived from Old High German. The two countries have a long history together, so it's no wonder they've adopted each other's names. The name Alice was and remains very popular in Europe. It only became well-known in the U.S. during the Victorian Era due to the daughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Alice, who was born in 1843. Its popularity rose even further due to "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carrol, published in 1865, turning people's attention to this European classic. The name has many variations today, such as Alicia, Alison, and Allie. It has other forms like Alisa in Russia and Aliki in Greece. This name has become popular in the U.S. with varied pronunciations and spelling, such as Alesha. This pronunciation is the Latin form of the name. https://store.earthstation1.com/mostly-mozart-festival-orchestra-avery-fisher-hall-19901990.html