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 opened1937 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