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Okay, how's this (courtesy of wikipedia.com):

Events that occurred on April 27:

• 1667 - The blind, impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
• 1773 - The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
• 1810 - Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
• 1897 - Grant's Tomb is dedicated.
• 1947 - Babe Ruth Day is celebrated at Yankee Stadium.

People born on April 27:

• 1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English activist and author (d. 1797)
• 1791 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
• 1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
• 1891 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (d. 1953)
• 1922 - Jack Klugman, American actor
• 1927 - Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2006)
• 1932 - Casey Kasem, American disc jockey

People who died on April 27:

• 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
• 1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
• 1965 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)

And in 1975, these were the Nobel Prize winners:

• Physics - Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, Leo James Rainwater
• Chemistry - John Warcup Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
• Medicine - David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin
• Literature - Eugenio Montale
• Peace - Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
• Economics - Leonid Kantorovich, Tjalling Koopmans