On This Day:
Sunday April 27, 2014 This is the 117th day of the year, with 248 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: brick The brick, first produced in sun-dried form at least 6,000 years ago and the forerunner of a wide range of structural clay products used today, is a small building unit in the form of a rectangular block. It is formed from clay, shale, or a mixture of other substances and is fired in a kiln, or oven, to produce strength, hardness, and heat resistance. The original concept of ancient brickmakers was a unit no larger than what one man could easily handle; today, brick size varies from country to country, and every nation's brickmaking industry produces a range of sizes that may run into the hundreds.
Holidays Feast day of St. Zita, St. Machalus, St. Floribert of LiÈge, St. Asicus, St. Anthimus of Nicomedia, and Saints Castor and Stephen.
Sierra Leone: Independence Day.
South Africa: Freedom Day.
Yugoslavia: National Day (formation of Yugoslav federation in 1992, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro).
Slovenia: Insurrection Day.
Togo: Independence Day (1960, from France).
Events 1773 - The British Parliament passed the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the East India Company and grant it a monopoly on the American tea trade.
1805 - After marching 500 miles from Egypt, a small force of U.S. Marines and Berber mercenaries entered Derna, Tripoli, captured it and deposed Yusuf Karamanli, the ruling pasha.
1861 - West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceded from the Union.
1865 - Just after the Civil War ended, the Sultana, a steam-powered riverboat, exploded and burned, killing more than 1400 passengers -- mostly former Union POWs.
1880 - Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid.
1961 - Sierra Leone became an independent republic within the British Commonwealth.
1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1992 - Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
2005 - The Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
2006 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
Births 1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, English feminist author.
1791 - Samuel F.B. Morse, American, telegraph inventor.
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States of America (1869-1877).
1896 - Rogers Hornsby, American baseball great.
1896 - Wallace Hume Carothers, American chemist who developed nylon.
1900 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker.
1932 - Casey Kasem (born Kemal Amin Kasem), American disc jockey.
1939 - Judy Carne (born Joyce Botterill), British actress and comedian.
1984 - Patrick Stump (born Patrick Martin Stumph), American musician.
Deaths 1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet.
1965 - Edward R. Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow), American journalist.
1988 - David Scarboro, British actor.
1998 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer.
2002 - Ruth Handler, American, creator of the Barbie doll and Mattel company co-founder.
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