Almanac - Wednesday 4/27/22

395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.

1667 – Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register.

1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.

1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.

1967 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.

1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.

1986 – The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.

1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.

1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.

2018 – The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict.

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1593 – Mumtaz Mahal, Mughal empress buried at the Taj Mahal (d. 1631)

1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist (d. 1797)

1791 – Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code (d. 1872)

1822 – Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)

1891 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1953)

1894 – Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1995)

1896 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1963)

1898 – Ludwig Bemelmans, Italian-American author and illustrator (d. 1962)

1899 – Walter Lantz, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and actor (d. 1994)

1922 – Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)

1927 – Coretta Scott King, African-American activist and author (d. 2006)

1931 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist and educator (d. 2021)

1932 – Pik Botha, South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 8th South African Ambassador to the United States (d. 2018)

1932 – Casey Kasem, American disc jockey, music historian, radio celebrity, and voice actor; co-created American Top 40 (d. 2014)

1939 – Judy Carne, English actress and comedian (d. 2015)

1942 – Ruth Glick, American author

1942 – Jim Keltner, American drummer

1944 – Cuba Gooding Sr., American singer (d. 2017)

1944 – Herb Pedersen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1945 – August Wilson, American author and playwright (d. 2005)

1947 – Ann Peebles, American soul singer-songwriter

1959 – Sheena Easton, Scottish-American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer

1969 – Cory Booker, African-American lawyer and politician

1988 – Lizzo, American singer and rapper