April 27^th in history

Encyclopædia Britannica presents people and events from this day in history:

Coretta Scott King: Biography of the Day

Coretta Scott King

"There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about Martin. He was my source of inspiration.…Martin and I were soulmates. When he died, a part of me died.…The nation may have lost a great leader but I lost a husband. My children lost their father. We paid the ultimate price."

Coretta Scott King

Born this day in 1927 was Coretta Scott King—civil rights activist, wife of civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and, after her husband's assassination, the founder of a centre for nonviolent social change.

 

Bombing of Guernica: 27 April 1937 - This Day in History

During the Spanish Civil War, the Condor Legion of the German air force, supporting the Nationalists, bombed the Basque city of Guernica on this day in 1937, an event memorialized in Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica.

More Events on this day:

1961: Sierra Leone achieved independence within the British Commonwealth.

1828: The London Zoo opened in Regent's Park.

1791: Samuel F.B. Morse, an American painter and the inventor of an electric telegraph and the Morse Code, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

1521: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan was killed during a fight with inhabitants of Mactan Island, Philippines.

1296: King Edward I of England, seeking suzerainty over the Scots, invaded Scotland and removed the coronation stone of Scone to Westminster, England.