April 27, 2022
QUOTE
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
--Ulysses S. Grant
BIRTHDAYS
1791 – Samuel Morse, American painter and co-inventor of Morse code
1822 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States
1922 – Jack Klugman, Actor
1932 – Casey Kasem, Disc jockey, music historian, radio celebrity, and voice actor.
1932 – Chuck Knox, American football coach
IN MEMORY
1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet and philosopher
1965 – Edward R. Murrow, Journalist
2002 – Ruth Handler, Inventor and businesswoman, created the Barbie doll
2013 – Lorraine Copeland, Scottish archaeologist
IN ON THIS DAY
1667 – Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10.
1861 – President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1978 – In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia.
2005 – Airbus A380 aircraft had its maiden test flight.
2011 – The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.