On This Day: April 27, 2024

Birthdays

1759 Mary Godwin/Shelly, Author of the novel 'Frankenstein'

1791 Samuel Morse, Inventor of Morse Code

1822 Ulysses S.Grant, Former (18th) American President

1904 Cecil Day Lewis, English poet

1922 Jack Klugman, American actor

1944 Michael Fish, Television weatherman

1959 Sheena Easton, Singer

Events

1937 The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco USA was opened

1937 King George VI opened the National Maritime Museum

1939 Conscription for men aged 20-21 was announced in Britain

1941 The city of Athens, Greece, was captured by the German army

1961 Sierra Leone, in Africa, became an independent republic

1967 The Expo '67 exhibition opened in Montreal, Canada

1976 Britain began exporting oil from the North Sea

1981 The Now! magazine ceased publication, after making huge losses

1984 The seige at the London office of the Libyan embassy ended

1987 The inquiry into the 'Herald Of Free Enterprise' ferry disaster began