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  Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

1861  President Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports on this day in history.   

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

1861  On this day in history president Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus   

1861  On this day in history georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer   

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

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

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

1865  On this day in history cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered   

1865  Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000 on April - 27.   

1865  On this day in history emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars)   

1867  Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris) on this day in history.   

1869  William Victor Harris, composer on this day in history.   

1870  Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi on this day in history.   

1871  On this day in history arthur Finlay Nevin, composer   

1871  On April - 27 sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59   

1872  On this day in history ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70   

1873  Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction) on April - 27.   

1874  On this day in history white League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms   

1875  On April - 27 andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)   

1877  On this day in history opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris)   

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

1881  Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76 on April - 27.   

1882  On April - 27 ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies   

1883  Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter on April - 27.   

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

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

1891  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1650  On this day in history birth of charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714)   

1701  On this day in history birth of charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia   

1707  John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens was born on this day in history.   

1718  On April - 27 birth of thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)   

1724  Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer was born on this day in history.   

0630  Death of King Ardashir III of Persia on this day in history.   

1076  Willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies on this day in history.   

1124  Alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24), dies on April - 27.   

1404  On April - 27 philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62   

1521  On April - 27 death of ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50   

1599  On this day in history death of maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)   

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

1613  On April - 27 death of robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)