Page 3: Historical Events In April - 27

1841  Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening on this day in history.   

1857  On this day in history establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited   

1859  On this day in history "S.S. Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard   

1859  On April - 27 "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard   

1860  Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry on this day in history.   

1861  President Abe Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus on April - 27.   

1861  President Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports on April - 27.   

1861  West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US on April - 27.   

1861  On April - 27 president Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus   

1861  On April - 27 georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer   

1863  Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL on April - 27.   

1865  1,450 paroled Union POWs killed when steamer "Sultana" blows up on April - 27.   

1865  Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard on April - 27.   

1865  On April - 27 cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered   

1865  Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000 on this day in history.   

1865  Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars) on April - 27.   

1867  On this day in history opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris)   

1869  On this day in history william Victor Harris, composer   

1870  On April - 27 heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi   

1871  Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer on April - 27.   

1871  Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59 on April - 27.   

1872  Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1873  Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction) on this day in history.   

1874  White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms on April - 27.   

1875  Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple) on April - 27.   

1877  Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris) on this day in history.   

1881  Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad on this day in history.   

1881  On this day in history ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76   

1882  On this day in history ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies   

1883  On this day in history hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter   

1884  Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets) on April - 27.   

1890  On April - 27 french troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan   

1891  On this day in history sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer   

1892  On this day in history louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons)   

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1410  John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia was born on April - 27.   

1495  On this day in history birth of suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)   

1623  Johann Adam Reincken, composer was born on April - 27.   

1650  On April - 27 birth of charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714)   

1701  On April - 27 birth of charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia   

1707  On April - 27 birth of john Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens   

1718  Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790) was born on this day in history.   

1724  Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer was born on April - 27.   

0630  On April - 27 death of king Ardashir III of Persia   

1076  On April - 27 willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies   

1124  Alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies on this day in history.   

1404  Philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62 on April - 27.   

1521  On this day in history death of ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50   

1599  Death of Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538) on this day in history.   

1605  Leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69 on April - 27.   

1613  Death of Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532) on April - 27.