Daily Calendar for Thursday, April 27, 2023

Astronomer John Russell Hind discovered a new variable star in Ophiuchus – 1848
Steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee – 1865
A hearing aid was patented by F. D. Clarke and M. G. Foster – 1880
Fourth modern Olympic games opened in London, England – 1908
U.S. Soil Conservation Service established by Congress – 1935
Babe Ruth Day – 1947
Expo ‘67 was officially opened in Montreal, Quebec, by Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson – 1967
L. Patrick Gray resigns as acting director of the FBI due to the Watergate fiasco – 1973
Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, successfully took off on its maiden flight – 2005
Oh Eun-sun from South Korea became the first woman to scale the world’s 14 highest mountains – 2010
An odd green light shot across the night sky in southern California. Experts concluded that it likely was a meteor. – 2016

The temperature in New York City reached 92 degrees F – 1915
Pahala, Hawaii, reached 100F (37.8C), which, at the time, was the highest temperature ever recorded for the state – 1931
Ninety-four degrees F, Hartford, CT – 1962
27 inches of snow fell in a 24-hours in Minot, North Dakota – 1984
Downtown Los Angeles hit 102 degrees F, shattering the April 27 mark of 94 degrees F set in 1881 – 2004