Discover what happened on April 27 with HISTORY's summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.

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Discover what happened on April 27 with HISTORY&#8217;s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.

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Naval History

America’s Founding Fathers decided that one elected civilian - the U.S. president - would lead the executive branch of the federal government, a governmental structure that has remained in place for more than 200 years.

U.S. Presidents

Space

Crime

In the 15th century, Europeans began to sail west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of new routes to China and the East, but in the process they discovered an entirely New World: North and South America, plus many other lands.

Exploration

Explorers

Boxing

Sons of Liberty

Film

Crime has been a dark and powerful undercurrent in human society throughout history. Uncover the facts behind some of the most daring robberies, brazen scams and brutal murders ever committed.&nbsp;

U.S. Marine Corps

The Civil War was America's bloodiest and most divisive conflict, pitting the Union Army against the Confederate States of America. The war resulted in the deaths of more than 620,000 people, with millions more injured and the South left in ruins.

Civil War

Disasters

Sports and recreation are an integral part of human history, from the ancient Olympics to the Kentucky Derby, Jackie Robinson, Negro League Baseball, the Super Bowl and more.

Sports

The Revolutionary War waged by the American colonies against Britain influenced political ideas and revolutions around the globe, as a small fledgling nation won its freedom from the greatest military force of its time.

American Revolution

Videos

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Art history tells the complex story of human civilization through art and design. It ranges from prehistoric art of the Neolithic period through Renaissance masterpieces, Impressionism, Modernism, the Bauhaus and contemporary art.

Art, Literature, and Film History

Inventions from the telephone to the Model T and the computer have defined human history, and inventors like Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney and Alexander Graham Bell have transformed our society.

Inventions & Science

Though the 19th century saw the rise of populism, the labor movement and Jacksonian democracy, it also ushered in the Gilded Age, when men like Cornelius Vanderbilt and J. P. Morgan wielded control over politics and business.

19th Century

Laws

Africa is a large and diverse continent that stretches from South Africa northward to the Mediterranean Sea. The continent makes up one-fifth of the total land surface of Earth.&nbsp;Widely recognized as the birthplace of humankind, Africa saw the rise of great kingdoms, faced the trans-Atlantic slave trade, colonization and Apartheid.

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Universe is created, according to Kepler

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Navigator Ferdinand Magellan killed in the Philippines

U.S. agent William Eaton leads U.S. forces “to the shores of Tripoli”

South Africa holds first multiracial elections

British parliament passes unpopular Tea Act

Rocky Marciano retires as world heavyweight champion

President Ulysses S. Grant is born

Explorer Zebulon Pike killed in battle

D.A. announces negligence caused death of “The Crow” actor Brandon Lee

Andrew Cunanan begins his killing spree

Union soldiers die in steamship explosion

GM announces plans to phase out Pontiac

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