April 27

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1521	Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.	Gentle Giant	His Last Voyage	Free Hand
2	1667	The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.	The Ronettes	Paradise	Back to Mono (1958-1969)
3	1773	The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.	Family	Buffet Tea for Two	It's Only a Movie
4	1810	Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.	The Cure	A Letter to Elise	Wish
5	1927	Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.	Watashi Wa	Message in a Bottle	Police Covers
6	1974	10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon	Golden Smog	He's a Dick	Down by the Old Mainstream
7	1992	Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.	OOIOO	Speaker	OOIOO
8	2006	Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.	Sondre Lerche	On the Tower	Two Way Monologue

(Historical facts about April 27 are from Wikipedia.)