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711 \u2013 Moslem troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.<\/p>\n
1521 \u2013 In the Philippines, Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives on Mactan island.<\/p>\n
1539 \u2013 Nikolaus Federmann and Sebasti\u00e1n de Belalc\u00e1zar found the city of Bogot\u00e1, New Granada (now Colombia)<\/p>\n
1667 \u2013 John Milton sells Paradise Lost<\/em> to a printer for \u00a310, so that it could be entered into the Stationers’ Register.<\/p>\n 1813 \u2013 During the War of 1812, American troops capture York (now Toronto, Ontario) the capital of the colony of Upper Canada.<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013 Claiming powers given by\u00a0Article I, Section 9, Clause 2 of the Constitution,\u00a0President Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus which is overruled a month later by the U.S. Supreme Court in Ex parte Merryman.<\/em><\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, Italy while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.<\/p>\n 1953 \u2013 The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff authorize Operation Moolah, <\/em>which o<\/em>ffers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission capable MiG-15\u00a0 to South Korea. The first pilot to defect would receive an additional $50,000. North Korean pilot Senior Lieutenant No Kum Sok, NKA (now Kenneth Rowe) later defects with his jet fighter on September 21st, after the armistice was signed, having not even heard of the reward offer.<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 American Airlines Flight 625, a Boeing 727 overruns the end of Runway 9 when landing at Harry S. Truman (now Cyril E. King) Airport in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, killing 37 of the 88 passengers and crew aboard<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 Xerox’ Palo Alto Research Center introduces the computer mouse.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 The ‘superjumbo’ Airbus A380 aircraft is taken on its maiden test flight.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013 In New York City, construction begins on the Freedom Tower, later renamed One World Trade Center, to replace the 2 main towers that were destroyed on 9\/11.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great, south of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 A ‘Super Tornado Outbreak’ devastates parts the southeastern U.S., especially Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee with 360 tornadoes killing 348 people and injuring 3100 more.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 27 711 \u2013 Moslem troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. 1521 \u2013 In the Philippines, Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives on Mactan island. 1539 \u2013 Nikolaus Federmann and Sebasti\u00e1n de Belalc\u00e1zar found the city of Bogot\u00e1, New Granada (now Colombia) 1667 \u2013 … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67252"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92214,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67252\/revisions\/92214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}