The Korean War technically lasted from  Jun 25, 1950  until the Jul 27, 1953 armistice, but the US never really quit or gave up its war against North Korea, which continued to commit the sin of being an unaligned nation, it merely conducted it by other means.  GWB even started a consent building narrative operation for a return to armed conflict against North Korea, but got distracted and started a war of aggression with Iraq first, allowing Korea time to build a nuclear deterrent. (GWB was, of course, that US President known as Bush the Lesser, or Bush the Dweeb, prior to the current massive bipartisan push to rehabilitate his reputation and validate his criminality) That, of course led to something of a stalemate, and so the US went after Libya instead. 

Manwhile, the 2 Koreas were really tired of all the sturm und drang and on April 27, 2018, entered into the Panmunjom Declaration, officially declaring their intentions to end of the conflict.  It hasn't really been their war for a while, and it still isn't, and the odds that the US will let it come to an end  are pretty negligible.

Unusable headline image (all rights reserved) but LOL here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ephesus/125728012/in/photolist-c7oym-9Z8B3...

On this day in history:

0711 – Moorish troops landed at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines to no avail.
1565 – Cebu was established, the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1667 – John Milton sold the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
1861 – Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
1865 – The New York State Senate created Cornell University
1936 – The UAW gained autonomy from the AFL
1981 – Xerox PARC introduced the computer mouse. **
1986 – The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas were evacuated due to Chernobyl 
1992 – Betty Boothroyd became the first woman elected Speaker of the British House of Commons 
1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics foolishly became members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Ah well.
1994 – The first democratic general election in South Africa, was held
2018 – The Panmunjom Declaration was was signed by the two Koreas, officially declaring their intentions to end of the Korean conflict.  The US, of course, neither accepted nor acquiesced to any such scheme and certainly isn't about to let it happen.

** For many years the computer revolution was dominated by Apple and Microsoft exploiting, fighting over and suing each other over XEROX's ideas and technology.

Born this day in:

1564 – Henry Percy, check his bio in da wiki
1593 – Mumtaz Mahal, the answer to "Who's buried in the Taj Mahal?"
1755 – Marc-Antoine Parseval,  mathematician and theorist
1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft, philosopher, historian, and novelist
1791 – Samuel Morse, painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code
1820 – Herbert Spencer, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher
1853 – Jules Lemaître,  playwright and critic
1891 – Sergei Prokofiev, pianist, composer, and conductor
1896 – Wallace Carothers, chemist and inventor of nylon
1899 – Walter Lantz, animator, producer, screenwriter, and actor known for his Woody
1913 – Irving Adler, mathematician, author, and academic
1923 – Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, Seminole chief
1927 – Coretta Scott King, activist and author
1932 – Casey Kasem, disc jockey, music historian, radio celebrity, and voice actor; co-created American Top 40
1942 – Ruth Glick,  author
1944 – Cuba Gooding Sr.,  singer
1944 – Herb Pedersen, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1947 – Pete Ham, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1947 – Ann Peebles, singer and songwriter
1948 – Frank Abagnale Jr., CEO of Abagnale & Associates and criminal
1948 – Kate Pierson, singer, songwriter, and bass player
1951 – Ace Frehley, guitarist and songwriter
1956 – Bryan Harvey, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1959 – Sheena Easton, singer, songwriter, actress, and producer
1967 – Tommy Smith, saxophonist, composer, and educator
1973 – Sharlee D'Angelo,  bass player and songwriter

Died this day in:

1521 – Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese sailor and explorer
1813 – Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer
1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher
1915 – John Labatt, brewer
1915 – Alexander Scriabin, pianist and composer
1932 – Hart Crane, poet
1936 – Karl Pearson, mathematician and academic
1937 – Antonio Gramsci, no good dirty commie sociologist, linguist, and politician
1938 – Edmund Husserl, mathematician and philosopher
1952 – Guido Castelnuovo, mathematician and statistician
1965 – Edward R. Murrow, journalist
1967 – William Douglas Cook, farmer, founder of the Eastwoodhill Arboretum
1998 – Carlos Castaneda, anthropologist and author
1998 – Anne Desclos, French journalist and author
1999 – Al Hirt, trumpet player and bandleader

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Freedom Day (South Africa)
UnFreedom Day (South Africa, unofficial)

Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies

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