On This Day:
Monday April 27, 2015 This is the 117th day of the year, with 248 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: seventh-inning stretch The seventh-inning stretch takes place after the top of the seventh inning. The history behind the seventh-inning stretch is the following: On April 15, 1910, President William Howard Taft, who weighed 300 pounds, got up to stretch his legs after the top of the seventh-inning. Fans thought that he was getting up to leave the game. As a show of respect, the fans in the area stood up, too. Then President Taft sat back down. Thus the seventh-inning stretch was born.
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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