Today is Wednesday, April 27, the 118th day of 2016. There are 248 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actress Anouk Aimee is 84. Rhythm-and-blues singer Cuba Gooding is 72. Rock singer Kate Pierson (The B-52’s) is 68. Rock musician Ace Frehley is 65. Pop singer Sheena Easton is 57. Actress Sally Hawkins is 40.

In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.

In 1791, the inventor of the telegraph, Samuel Morse, was born in Charlestown, Mass.

In 1865, the steamer Sultana, carrying freed Union prisoners of war, exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis; death toll estimates vary from 1,500 to 2,000.

In 1973, acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray resigned after it was revealed that he’d destroyed files removed from the safe of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt.

In 1982, the trial of John W. Hinckley Jr., who had shot four people, including President Reagan, began in Washington. (The trial ended in acquittal by reason of insanity.)

In 1992, the new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in Belgrade by the republic of Serbia and its lone ally, Montenegro.

In 2006, construction began on the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.

Last year, rioters plunged part of Baltimore into chaos, setting police cars ablaze and throwing bricks at officers hours after thousands attended a funeral for Freddie Gray, who died from a severe spinal injury he’d suffered in police custody.