April 27, deadly tornadoes strike the Southeast

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Today is Sunday, April 27, on 117 of 2025. 248 days remain in the year.

Today in history:

On April 27, 2011, duration of the super out of four days of 2011, 112 tornadoes landed throughout the southern United States, killing 319 on the most fatal day of tornadoes in the United States since 1925.

Also on this date:

In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, killed was in the battle of Macan in the Philippines while trying to expand Spanish colonization in the region.

In 1813, the battle of York Toke Place in the high Canada duration of the war of 1812 when the US forces defeated British garrison in the current Toronto; The American Brigade General Zebulon Pike and another 37 American soldiers were killed near the end of the battle when the British forces exploded the Munition magazine of Fort York as an approach to the Americans.

In 1865, the Sultana steam, which was transported prisoners of war of the union released, exploded in the Mississippi river near Memphis, Tennessee; Up to 1,800 were killed in the maritime disaster of sausages in the history of the United States.

In 1994, former President Richard M. Nixon was buried after a funeral in his five successors, in Nixon’s presidential library and museum in Yorba Linda, California.

In 2010, former Panaman dictator Manuel Noriega arrived in France after being extradited from the United States; He was later sentenced in a French court for laundering drug money and received a seven -year sentence.

In 2012, the company of the space ferry, mounted on top of a jumbo Jet, sailed on the horizon of New York City on its final flight before exhibiting as part of the USS Intrepid Museum.

In 2015, the uproarist ransacked Baltimore in chaos, burning a pharmacy, establishing police cars on fire and throwing bricks to the officers hours after thousands attended a fundamental service for Freddie Gray, a black man who severe spinal.

In 2018, the North Korean leader Kim Jong made a history crossing South Korea to meet with President Moon Jae-in; It was the first time that a member of the Kim dynasty had stepped on the southern floor since the end of the Korean War in 1953.

In 2019, an armed man opened fire inside a synagogue near San Diego while the faithful celebrated the last day of Easter, killing a woman and hurting a rabbi and two others. (John Earnest, a white supremacist, was sentenced to the terms of federal and state life imprisonment for the shootings).

Today’s birthday:

  • Singer Kate Pierson (the B-52S) is 77.
  • Guitarist Ace Freehley is 74 years old.
  • Senator Jim Justice, RV, is 74.
  • The member of the Basketball Fame George Gervin is 73 years old.
  • Singer Sheena Easton is 66 years old.
  • Senator Cory Booker, Dn.J., is 56.
  • Actor Sally Hawkins is 49 years old.
  • The musician Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy) is 41.
  • Actor William Moseley is 38 years old.
  • The singer Lizzo is 37 years old.
  • Tennis player Nick Kyrgios has 30.
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