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Notable anniversaries in history for today: April 27
- 900th: 1124 - Alexander I king of Scotland (1107-24), dies.
- 150th: 1874 - White League, a paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Cuba Gooding; US singer (Main Ingredient - "Everybody Plays the Fool").
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Herb Pedersen in Berkley, California, USA; singer (Desert Rose Band - "Love Reunited").
- 80th: 1944 - Boston Braves' Jim Tobin no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Paul Osbaldiston; Canadian Football League kicker (Hamilton Tiger Cats).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Carlos Fortes; soccer player (Sparta).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Pete Chryplewicz; tight end (Detroit Lions).
- 50th: 1974 - Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Lorraine McAllister at age 62; singer (Dal Richards Orchestra on radio, Here's Lorraine TV show).
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of Patrick Stump, American singer-guitarist (Fall Out Boy).
- 40th: 1984 - Cleveland Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings.
- 40th: 1984 - Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake, Montana.
- 30th: 1994 - 29.0 degrees C in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record).
- 30th: 1994 - 7th longest NHL game: New Jersey Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 minutes 43 seconds).
- 30th: 1994 - Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km).
- 30th: 1994 - John Preston, US writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at age 48.
- 30th: 1994 - Lynne Frederick Unger, actress (Trail of Pink Panther), dies at age 39.
- 30th: 1994 - Minnesota Twins righty Scott Erickson no-hits Milwaukee Brewers 6-0.
- 30th: 1994 - President Richard Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Al Hirt at age 76 of liver cancer; trumpeter ("Java", "Sugar Lips").
- 15th: 2009 - The World Health Organization raises its global pandemic alert to Level 4 from Level 3, meaning the global health body feels the virus causing the H1N1 flu outbreak can easily transmit between people.
- 15th: 2009 - General Motors announces it will phase out the 82-year-old Pontiac brand by the end of 2010.
- 15th: 2009 - A 5.6 magnitude earthquake strikes central Mexico, centred near Chilpancingo, about 210 kilometres southwest of Mexico City.
- 15th: 2009 - New York residents panic as a large passenger jet flies low over Manhattan, closely pursued by a fighter aircraft; plane is the President's Air Force One, ordered there by the White House for publicity photos.
- 10th: 2014 - A ceremony, attended by over one million people, is held in in Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City for the granting of sainthood to two popes for the first time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church: Pope John XXIII (1958-1963) and John Paul II (1978-2005).
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