Video: 'Cornell University'
(Thursday, April 27, 1865) — Cornell University, a private Ivy League and federal land-grant research university, was established today in in Ithaca, New York, as Gov. Reuben E. Fenton signed a measure approving its charter.
Video: 'A US soldier talks with liberated prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp in Lands...HD Stock Footage'
(Friday, April 27, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women, at the Nazi concentration camp Landsberg, a sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp located in southwest Bavaria, Germany, about 65 kilometers west of Munich, was liberated today by the 12th Armored Division of the United States Army. Continue reading Nazi concentration sub-camps Landsberg, Kaufering liberated 70 years ago today (Apr 27 1945)
Video: 'First Barbary War: The Battle of Derne.'
(Saturday, April 27, 1805, 2:45 p.m. local time; during the First Barbary War) — An American-led force of Marines and mercenaries today captured the city of Derne, on the shores of Tripoli.
Video: 'Ken Burns The Civil War: Episode 9 The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865) |Ken Burns Docum' (Apr. 27, 1865 at 9:57)
(Thursday, April 27, 1865, 2:00 a.m. local time; during the American Civil War) — SS Sultana, a Mississippi River side-wheel steamboat exploded this morning in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history.
An estimated 1,800 of her 2,427 passengers, including 2,1000 recently liberated Union prisoners of war, died when three of the boat’s four boilers exploded and she burned to the waterline and sank near Memphis.
Video: 'Vietnam The Ten Thousand Day War 12of13 Surrender (Apr. 27, 1975, at 30:00)
(Sunday, April 27, 1975, 4:00 a.m. ICT; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — Five rockets dropped into a densely populated Saigon slum today, leaving 5,000 homeless. Now, fears of a blood bath increase.
(Saturday, April 26, 1975) — “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song” by B.J. Thomas peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
(Saturday, April 26, 1975) — “Supernatural Thing” by Ben E. King peaked at #5 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
(Saturday, April 26, 1975) — “Stand by Me” by ex-Beatle John Lennon peaked at #20 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks. It was Lennon eighth of twelve top 20 hits on the chart (1969-1984).
Video: 'WW2 - Marshal Pétain'
(Thursday, April 26, 1945, 8:00 p.m. CEST; during World War II) — Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of France’s Vichy government during World War II, was arrested tonight when he returned to French territory after crossing the Swiss frontier at La Ferriere sous Joigne.
Video: 'Ken Burns The Civil War: Episode 9 The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865) |Ken Burns Docum' (Apr. 26, 1865 at 26:32)
(Wednesday, April 26, 1865; during the American Civil War) — After three separate days (April 17, 18 and 26, 1865) of negotiations, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee and all remaining Confederate forces still active in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman today at the Bennett Farm in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina.
It was the largest surrender of the war, totaling 89,270 soldiers.
