April 27th in US History
Part VI
On April 27th in 1998 A Pentagon panel said remains of the Vietnam veteran in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery should be exhumed to determine whether they belonged to Air Force 1st Lt. Michael J. Blassie, as his family believed. The remains were later positively identified as Blassie's.
On April 27th in 1999 A week after the Columbine High School massacre, President Clinton called for new gun control measures, saying, "People's lives are at stake here."
On April 27th in 1999 The US Pentagon announced a call for 33,102 reservists for active duty in Kosovo.
On April 27th in 1999 A federal grand jury indicted ten top political figures in Arkansas for corruption. Nick Wilson, the senior state senator, was indicted as the ring leader of a group that diverted state money.
On April 27th in 1999 In Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and the Legislature agreed on a plan to allow children in the lowest-rated schools to use state vouchers for private schools.
On April 27th in 2000 New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani disclosed that he had prostate cancer. He later bowed out of the US Senate race against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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