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