On this day in the Star Trek universe - The Next Generation:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991)
 

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 4. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: The Drumhead.

Released April 27, 1991.

Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

Written by Jeri Taylor, Ronald D. Moore, Joe Menosky, David Carren, J. Larry Carroll, Brannon Braga.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Bruce French, Spencer Garrett, Henry Woronicz, Earl Billings, Jean Simmons, Ann Shea, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Joe Baumann, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, Debbie David, Denise Deuschle, Jeremy Doyle, Elliot Durant III, Randy James, Mark Lentry, Jeri McBride, Tim McCormack, Keith Rayve, Richard Sarstedt, Guy Vardaman, Natalie Wood.

On this day in television history - Justified (2010)

Justified
Season 1. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: Blind Spot.

Released April 27, 2010.

Directed by Michael Watkins.

Written by Graham Yost, Wendy Calhoun and Chris Provenzano.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, M.C. Gainey, Linda Gehringer, James Immekus, Ray McKinnon, David Meunier, Brent Sexton, Walton Goggins, Blake Adams, Jack Nathan Harding, Howard S. Miller, Keith Talley, Kevin ‘Repo’ Thomas.

On this day in television history - Justified (2011)

Justified
Season 2. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Reckoning.

Released April 27, 2011.

Directed by Adam Arkin.

Written by Graham Yost, Dave Andron, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Margo Martindale, Jeremy Davies, Kaitlyn Dever, David Meunier, Peter Murnik, Kevin Rankin, Richard Speight Jr., Joseph Lyle Taylor, Raymond J. Barry, Kacey Camp, Sean Donnellan, Tonja Kahlens, Savannah McReynolds, Abby Miller, Ryan Smith, Nick Warnock, Jeremy Timmins

On this day in music history - The album Diamond Baby Blues, by Lee Aaron (2018)

Baby Blues

by Lee Aaron

was released on April 27, 2018.

Track list:

Diamond Baby Blues; Mistreated; American High; I’m A Woman; Mercy; The Best Thing; Black Cat; Hard Road; In The Bedroom; Cut Way Back; You’re No Good; My Babe.

Daniel J. Boorstin, on books:

 

Books are the main source of our knowledge, our reservoir of first faith, memory, wisdom, morality, poetry, philosophy, history and science.

- Daniel J. Boorstin.

Born on this day – Douglas Sirk:

Douglas Sirk

Director

Writer

April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987

Credits:

A Scandal in Paris (1946); A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958); Accord final (1938); Acting for Douglas Sirk: 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' Remembered (2008); Against All Flags (1952); All I Desire (1953); All That Heaven Allows (1955); April, April! (1935); Battle Hymn (1957); Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk (1979); Boefje (1939); Bourbon Street Blues (1979); Captain Lightfoot (1955); Century of Cinema (1995); Cinéma cinémas / Segment: Douglas Sirk Lugano-Genève avril 1982 (1982); Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense (2010); Das Hofkonzert (1936); Der eingebildete Kranke (1935); Douglas Sirk - Hope as in Despair (2022); Douglas Sirk: Über Stars (1980); Dreimal Ehe (1935); Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002); Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk (1979); Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2005); From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk Remembers (1991); Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952); Hitler's Madman (1943); Im Schatten der Träume (2024); Imagine in Oglinda (2021); Imitation of Life (1959); Interlude (1957); La chanson du souvenir (1937); La Habanera (1937); Liebling der Matrosen (1937); Love Me Not (2019); Lured (1947); Magnificent Obsession (1954); Meet Me at the Fair (1953); Mirage de la vie (1983); My Life for Zarah Leander (1986); Mystery Submarine (1950); Never Say Goodbye (1956); No Room for the Groom (1952); Pillars of Society (1935); Quand la peur dévore l'âme (2007); Quelques jours avec Sirk (2008); Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023); Shockproof (1949); Sign of the Pagan (1954); Silvesternacht - Ein Dialog (1978); Sleep, My Love (1948); Slightly French (1949); Spécial cinéma (1984–1987); Sprich zu mir wie der Regen (1976); Summer Storm (1944); 't was een April (1936); Take Me to Town (1953); Taza, Son of Cochise (1954); The Final Chord (1936); The First Legion (1951); The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935); The Lady Pays Off (1951); The Making of 'Far from Heaven' (2002); The Strange Woman (1946); The Tarnished Angels (1957); There's Always Tomorrow (1956); Thunder on the Hill (1951); To New Shores (1937); Triad (1938); Week-End with Father (1951); Written on the Wind (1956); Zwei Genies (1934).

Born on this day – Hamilton MacFadden:

Hamilton MacFadden

Actor

Writer

Director

April 26, 1901 – January 1, 1977

Credits:

Are You There? (1930); As Husbands Go (1934); Charlie Chan Carries On (1931); Charlie Chan in Paris (1935); Charlie Chan in Reno (1939); Charlie Chan in Rio (1941); Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933); Cheaters at Play (1932); Chicken Wagon Family (1939); Crazy That Way (1930); Crazy That Way (1930); Dressed to Kill (1941); Elinor Norton (1934); Escape by Night (1937); Fighting Youth (1935); Five of a Kind (1938); Harmony at Home (1930); Hold That Girl (1934); Inside the Law (1942); It Can't Last Forever (1937); Keep Smiling (1938); Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940); Oh, for a Man! (1930); Pardon Our Nerve (1939); Pier 13 (1940); Ride, Kelly, Ride (1941); Riders of the Purple Sage (1931); Sea Racketeers (1937); Second Hand Wife (1933); Sharpshooters (1938); She Was a Lady (1934); Shooting High (1940); Sleepers West (1941); Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); Tarnished Angel (1938); The Black Camel (1931); The Fourth Horseman (1932); The Honeymoon's Over (1939); The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939); The Lady in Question (1940); The Legion of Missing Men (1937); The Man Who Dared (1933); The Power of God (1942); The Reluctant Dragon (1941); Their Mad Moment (1931); Three Legionnaires (1937); Time Out for Murder (1938); Touchdown, Army (1938); Trick for Trick (1933); Unmarried (1939); While New York Sleeps (1938); Wilson (1944); Yesterday's Heroes (1940); Young America (1942); Youth for the Kingdom (1945).