- 1667 John Milton sells the copyright to his epic poem Paradise Lost for £10.
- 1759 English author Mary Wollstonecraft born; married poet Percy Shelley; wrote Frankenstein.
- 1896 American chemist Wallace Carothers born; invented nylon.
- 1896 Baseball player Rogers Hornsby born; highest batting average in a season, .424 in 1924.
- 1805 The Marines attack the city of Derna on the shores of the Muslim Barbary State Tripoli.
- 1913 American chemist Philip Abelson born; invented the gas diffusion process for seperating uranium isotopes; discovered (with Edwin McMillan) the element neptunium; invented the nuclear-powered submarine; discovered amino acids (the building blocks of life) in fossils.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Today in History: April 27
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