Associated Press

On April 27, 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.

In 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote one of his most famous piano compositions, the Bagatelle in A-minor.

In 1941, German forces occupied Athens during World War II.

In 1992, Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

In 1994, former President Richard M. Nixon was remembered at an outdoor funeral service attended by all five of his successors at the Nixon presidential library in Yorba Linda, California.

In 2019, a gunman opened fire inside a synagogue near San Diego as worshippers celebrated the last day of Passover. (John Earnest, a white supremacist, has been sentenced to federal and state life prison terms.)