27 Apr: feast of St. Zita (Sitha/Sithe) d. 1272 #otd in #Lucca - a servant #saint - she was canonized in 1696 - & is the finder of lost keys (myrabella)

27 Apr 1663: John Milton signs a contract #otd with a publisher for £5 for Paradise Lost - when 1,300 copies were sold, he'd get another £5.

This came to pass 5 years and 364 days later...

William Edward Weber ist heute vor 60 Jahren am 27. April 1965 gestorben.
https://geneee.org/william+edward/weber

27 Apr 1103: St. Anselm of Bec, brilliant author of Cur Deus Homo, Archbishop of #Canterbury 'fails' to open a papal letter #otd as he feared it contained an order to excommunicate various people. By not knowing what it contained he wasn't, technically, disobeying.

Friedrich Johann, Graf von Alvensleben ist heute vor 75 Jahren am 27. April 1950 gestorben.
https://geneee.org/friedrich+johann/von+alvensleben

Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) was born #OTD, 27 April – a

Push the boat out, compañeros,
push the boat out, whatever the sea…

“At Eighty”—a poem written for his own 80th birthday

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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/eighty-0/

Emilie Sommer ist heute vor 80 Jahren am 27. April 1945 gestorben.
https://geneee.org/emilie/sommer/4

#OTD vor 78 Jahren: Paul Gruner, KPD-Funktionär und antifaschistischer Widerstandskämpfer aus Dresden, verstirbt https://www.gedenkplaetze.info/biografien/paul-gruner

Otto Geiger ist heute vor 80 Jahren am 27. April 1945 gestorben.
https://geneee.org/otto/geiger

Fannie Blatter ist heute vor 90 Jahren am 27. April 1935 gestorben.
https://geneee.org/fannie/blatter

Greater Feast of Wilfred T Smith, died April 27, 1957 at Malibu, California https://hermetic.com/hermeneuticon/wilfred-t-smith #calendar #historic #OTD #OnThisDay

Edwin Paul Kutcher ist heute vor 125 Jahren am 27. April 1900 geboren.
https://geneee.org/edwin+paul/kutcher

"Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
That comes at all."
Book I, Lines 65-67

#OTD in 1667.

Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost

At PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=paradise+lost+by+john+milton&submit_search=Search

#OtD 26 Apr 1937 the ancient Basque city of Guernica was bombed and largely obliterated by the German and Italian air forces at the behest of the Spanish nationalists during the civil war. The event was famously depicted by Picasso. More in this podcast:
https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/

#Hörtipp
#OTD #20250427date
#KalenderblattDLF #DLF #Kalenderblatt
KZ Auschwitz - In 24 Stunden konnten 800 Leichen verbrannt werden https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/27-04-1940-heinrich-himmler-ordnet-den-bau-des-kz-auschwitz-an-100.html (@wikinaut)

#OnThisDay, 27 Apr 1992, Betty Boothroyd was elected Speaker of the UK House of Commons. She was the first - and to date only - woman to hold the role.

A working class woman, Betty had been a dancer before working for JFK and becoming an MP. She went on to sit in the House of Lords.

Watch: https://buff.ly/38djBcP

Johannes Männer ist heute vor 150 Jahren am 27. April 1875 geboren.
https://geneee.org/johannes/manner/4

#OTD vor 92 Jahren: Der Schlosser Willy Gruhl aus Struppen wird aus dem KZ Hohnstein entlassen https://www.gedenkplaetze.info/biografien/ehemaliges-wohnhaus-von-arthur-mueller-und-willy-gruhl

27 Apr 1404: d. John Colton at Drogheda #otd, very shortly after he had resigned as Archbishop of #Armagh. He had been consecrated for that diocese in St. Paul's #London on 8 Mar 1383 (BM) His 1397 account of his ten-day visitation of #Derry diocese has survived.