Interesting things that happened May 27th:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1818 Amelia Bloomer, advocate for women's rights, proto-sufragette
In 1819 Julia Ward Howe, poet
In 1837 Wild Bill Hickock, U.S. Marshall
In 1894 Da****ell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective
In 1907 Rachel Carson, ecologist
In 1911 Hubert Horatio Humphrey, U.S. Senator from Minnesota, Vice
President
+ Vincent Price, actor, gourmet
In 1912 John Cheever, writer
+ Sam Snead, golfer
In 1923 Henry Kissinger (in Germany), US Secretary of State (1973-77),
Nobel
laureate (Peace, 1973), first-ever honorary Harlem Globetrotter
In 1935 Lee Meriwether, actor, former Miss America
In 1936 Lou Gossett, Jr., actor
In 1943 Cillia Black (in Liverpool, England), singer, actor, TV host
Events worth noting:
In 1854 Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Francisco completed.
In 1896 Bay District Race Track closes.
In 1907 Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco.
In 1931 First full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley
Field,
Va.
In 1933 Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th and beat White Sox
15-11.
In 1937 Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.
In 1941 German battle****p Bismarck is sunk by a British naval force,
lead by
HMS Ark Royal, after several torpedoes from HMS Dorset****re are
fired.
In 1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park opens.
In 1957 Permission granted to the Dodgers and Giants to leave NY.
In 1964 Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, dies.
In 1968 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3.
In 1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus and Mars".
And remember ...
National Bike Month
School Principals' Month
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