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May 27th - The German Battleship Bismarck is sunk
Today is Sunday, May 27, the 148th day of 2012. There are 218 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 27, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., was opened to pedestrian traffic (vehicular traffic began crossing the bridge the next day).
On this date:
In 927, Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: the Croatian army, led by King Tomislav, defeats the Bulgarian Army.
In 1120, Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
In 1153, Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
In 1703, Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
In 1798, The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
In 1799, War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town's location at the junction of seven cross-roads.
In 1812, Bolivian War of Independence: In Bolivia, the Battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fight against the Spanish army.
In 1813, War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
In 1849, The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
In 1860, Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
In 1861, Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting as a federal circuit court judge in Baltimore, ruled that President Abraham Lincoln lacked the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus (Lincoln disregarded the ruling).
In 1863, American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
In 1883, Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
In 1896, The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis and East Saint Louis, Ill., killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 USD).
In 1905, Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
In 1907, Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
In 1912, golf legend Sam Snead was born in Ashwood, Va. Author John Cheever was born in Quincy, Mass.
In 1919, The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
In 1927, The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
In 1929, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. married Anne Morrow in Englewood, N.J.
In 1930, The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
In 1933, New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
In 1933, The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
In 1933, The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1935, New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
In 1936, the Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage to New York.
In 1940, World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops. Two survive.
In 1941, World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
In 1941, World War II: The British Royal Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France, with a loss of some 2,000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood.
In 1942, World War II: Navy Cook 3rd Class Doris "Dorie" Miller became the first African-American to receive the Navy Cross for his "extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety" during Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
In 1942, World War II: SS leader Reinhard Heydrich was seriously wounded in a bomb attack by Czech agents in Prague; he died eight days later. (The Nazis retaliated with mass executions.)
In 1957, Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
In 1958, The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
In 1960, In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
In 1962, a dump fire in Centralia, Pa., ignited a slow-burning blaze in underground coal deposits that continues to smolder to this day.
In 1964, independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died.
In 1965, Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
In 1967, Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
In 1967, The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
In 1968, The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
In 1971, The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
In 1975, Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 33, the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
In 1980, The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
In 1985, in Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997.
In 1986, Dragon Quest, the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, is released in Japan.
In 1993, five people were killed in a bombing at the Uffizi museum of art in Florence, Italy.
In 1995, In Culpeper, Va., actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
In 1996, First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
In 1997, The unusual 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak Jarrell, Texas
In 1997, The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
In 1998, Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
In 1999, The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
In 2001, Members of Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an upscale island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
In 2005, Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.
In 2005, The first year of the Tunisian American Day, which became a yearly event
In 2006, The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 am local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.
Ten years ago: President George W. Bush commemorated Memorial Day at Normandy American Cemetery in France, where he honored the 9,387 men and women buried there.
Five years ago: American forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis in a raid on an al-Qaida hideout north of Baghdad. Dario Franchitti won a rain-abbreviated Indy 500. Broadway actress Gretchen Wyler died in Camarillo, Calif., at age 75.
One year ago: Rich countries and international lenders said at a Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, they were aiming to provide $40 billion in funding for Arab nations trying to establish democracy, starting with Egypt and Tunisia. President Barack Obama, visiting Poland, honored the memories of those slain in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazis. Gil Scott-Heron, 62, widely considered one of the godfathers of rap music, died in New York. Actor Jeff Conaway died at a hospital in Encino, Calif.; he was 60.
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Re: May 27th
Today's Birthdays: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk (wohk) is 97. Actor Christopher Lee is 90. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is 89. Author John Barth is 82. Actress Lee Meriwether is 77. Musician Ramsey Lewis is 77. Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is 76. Rhythm-and-blues singer Raymond Sanders (The Persuasions) is 73. Country singer Don Williams is 73. Actor Bruce Weitz is 69. Singer Cilla Black is 69. Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Christopher Dodd is 68. Singer Bruce Cockburn is 67. Singer-actress Dee Dee Bridgewater is 62. Actor Richard Schiff is 57. Singer Siouxsie Sioux (The Creatures, Siouxsie and the Banshees) is 55. Rock singer-musician Neil Finn (The Finn Brothers) is 54. Actress Peri Gilpin is 51. Actress Cathy Silvers is 51. Comedian Adam Carolla is 48. Actor Todd Bridges is 47. Rock musician Sean Kinney (Alice In Chains) is 46. Actor Dondre Whitfield is 43. Actor Paul Bettany is 41. Rock singer-musician Brian Desveaux (Nine Days) is 41. Country singer Jace Everett is 40. Actor Jack McBrayer is 39. Rapper Andre 3000 (Outkast) is 37. Rapper Jadakiss is 37. TV chef Jamie Oliver is 37. Alt-country singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson is 36. Actor Michael Steger is 32. Actor-singer Chris Colfer (TV: "Glee") is 22. Actor Ethan Dampf is 18.
Other notable birthdays, May 27:
1923, Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
1930, William S. Sessions, 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1934, Harlan Ellison, American author
1947, Marty Kristian, German-born musician (The New Seekers)
1948, Pete Sears, English rock musician (Jefferson Starship)
1954, Jackie Slater, American football player
1955, Eric Bischoff, American professional wrestling promoter
1956, Cynthia McFadden, American television anchor
1957, Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
1957, Duncan Goodhew, English Olympic swimmer, 1980 gold medalist
1958, Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter (Split Enz, Crowded House)
1958, Linnea Quigley, American actress
1962, Steven Brill, American film writer and director
1965, Pat Cash, Australian tennis player
1968, Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
1968, Frank E. Thomas, American baseball player
1968, Rebekah Brooks, English journalist and newspaper editor
1969, Todd Hundley, American baseball player
1969, Jeremy Mayfield, American race car driver
1970, Joseph Fiennes, English actor
1974, Danny Wuerffel, American football player
1984, Blake Ahearn, American basketball player
1984, Darin Brooks, American actor
1997, Danny McKinnon, Canadian actor
Born on this day, May 27, passed away:
1738, Nathaniel Gorham, 8th President of the United States in Congress Assembled (d. 1796)
1794, Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
1818, Amelia Bloomer, American suffragette (d. 1894)
1819, Julia Ward Howe, American poet (The Battle Hymn of the Republic) (d. 1910)
1820, Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
1827, Samuel F. Miller, New York representative to the U.S. House of Representatives (d. 1892)
1836, Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
1837, Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
1884, Max Brod, Czech-born writer, literary executor of Franz Kafka (d. 1968)
1894, Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961)
1907, Rachel Carson, American biologist and science writer (d. 1964)
1909, Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist (d. 2011)
1911, Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States and Senator from Minnesota (d. 1978)
1911, Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician (d. 2007)
1911, Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
1912, John Cheever, American author (d. 1982)
1912, Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)
1912, Terry Moore, American baseball player (d. 1995)
1921, Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (d. 1960)
1935, Mal Evans, British road manager of The Beatles (d. 1976)
1971, Lisa Lopes, American singer (TLC) (d. 2002)
Notable deaths, May 27:
1564, John Calvin, French religious reformer (b. 1509)
1831, Jedediah Strong Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
1840, Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
1941, Ernst Lindemann, German captain, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (b. 1894)
1941, Gunther Lutjens, German admiral, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (b. 1889)
1949, Robert Ripley, American cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) (b. 1890)
1953, Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (b. 1868)
1964, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (b. 1889)
1969, Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926)
1993, Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)
2000, Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
2001, Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929)
2006, Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
2006, Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
2006, Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
2007, Howard Porter, American basketball player (b. 1948)
2007, Gretchen Wyler, American actress (b. 1932)
2007, Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
2008, Franz Künstler, last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (b. 1900)
2009, Carol Anne O'Marie, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist (b. 1933)
2009, Paul Sharratt, British-born American television producer (b. 1933)
2011, Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950)
2011, Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)
2011, Gil Scott-Heron, American poet, musician and author (b. 1949)
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Today is Monday, May 27, the 147th day of 2013. There are 218 days left in the year. This is the Memorial Day observance.
Today's Highlights in History:
On May 27, 1933, the Chicago World's Fair, celebrating "A Century of Progress," officially opened. Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning animated short "The Three Little Pigs" was first released.
One year ago: Syria strongly denied allegations that its forces had killed scores of people — including women and children — in Houla, but the U.N. Security Council condemned government forces for shelling residential areas. At the Cannes Film Festival, Austrian director Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film, "Amour." Dario Franchitti won the Indianapolis 500 for the third time. Johnny Tapia, the five-time boxing champion whose turbulent career was marked by cocaine addiction, alcohol, depression and run-ins with the law, was found dead at his Albuquerque, N.M., home; he was 45.
Today's Birthdays: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk (wohk) is 98. Actor Christopher Lee is 91. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is 90. Author John Barth is 83. Actress Lee Meriwether is 78. Musician Ramsey Lewis is 78. Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is 77. Rhythm-and-blues singer Raymond Sanders (The Persuasions) is 74. Country singer Don Williams is 74. Actor Bruce Weitz is 70. Singer Cilla Black is 70. Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Christopher Dodd is 69. Singer Bruce Cockburn (KOH'-burn) is 68. Singer-actress Dee Dee Bridgewater is 63. Actor Richard Schiff is 58. Singer Siouxsie Sioux (The Creatures, Siouxsie and the Banshees) is 56. Rock singer-musician Neil Finn (The Finn Brothers) is 55. Actress Peri Gilpin is 52. Actress Cathy Silvers is 52. Comedian Adam Carolla is 49. Actor Todd Bridges is 48. Rock musician Sean Kinney (Alice In Chains) is 47. Actor Dondre Whitfield is 44. Actor Paul Bettany is 42. Rock singer-musician Brian Desveaux (Nine Days) is 42. Country singer Jace Everett is 41. Actor Jack McBrayer is 40. Rapper Andre 3000 (Outkast) is 38. Rapper Jadakiss is 38. TV chef Jamie Oliver is 38. Alt-country singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson is 37. Actor Michael Steger is 33. Actor-singer Chris Colfer is 23. Actor Ethan Dampf is 19.
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Today is Tuesday, May 27, the 147th day of 2014. There are 218 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 27, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened to pedestrian traffic (vehicles began crossing the next day).
Ten years ago: Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, a Muslim cleric, was arrested in London and accused of trying to build a terrorist training camp in Oregon. (Mustafa, also known as Abu Hamza al-Masri, was extradited to the United States in the fall of 2012; his trial began in New York in April 2014.)
Five years ago: President Barack Obama announced more spending for renewable energy after touring a large field of solar panels at Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas. Gunmen detonated a car bomb in Lahore, Pakistan, killing about 30 people and wounding at least 250.
One year ago: The European Union decided to lift an arms embargo on the Syrian opposition while maintaining all other sanctions against President Bashar Assad's regime after June 1, 2013. U.S. Sen. John McCain, a proponent of arming Syrian rebels, quietly slipped into Syria for a meeting with anti-government fighters. A coordinated wave of car bombings tore through mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad, killing dozens.
Today's Birthdays: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk (wohk) is 99. Actor Christopher Lee is 92. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is 91. Former FBI Director William Sessions is 84. Author John Barth is 84. Actress Lee Meriwether is 79. Musician Ramsey Lewis is 79. Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is 78. Rhythm-and-blues singer Raymond Sanders (The Persuasions) is 75. Country singer Don Williams is 75. Actor Bruce Weitz is 71. Singer Cilla Black is 71. Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Christopher Dodd is 70. Singer Bruce Cockburn (KOH'-burn) is 69. Singer-actress Dee Dee Bridgewater is 64. Actor Richard Schiff is 59. Singer Siouxsie Sioux (The Creatures, Siouxsie and the Banshees) is 57. Rock singer-musician Neil Finn (The Finn Brothers) is 56. Actress Peri Gilpin is 53. Actress Cathy Silvers is 53. Comedian Adam Carolla is 50. Actor Todd Bridges is 49. Rock musician Sean Kinney (Alice In Chains) is 48. Actor Dondre Whitfield is 45. Actor Paul Bettany is 43. Rock singer-musician Brian Desveaux (Nine Days) is 43. Country singer Jace Everett is 42. Actor Jack McBrayer is 41. Rapper Andre 3000 (Outkast) is 39. Rapper Jadakiss is 39. TV chef Jamie Oliver is 39. Alt-country singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson is 38. Actor Ben Feldman is 34. Actor Michael Steger is 34. Actor-singer Chris Colfer is 24. Actor Ethan Dampf is 20.
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Today is Wednesday, May 27, the 147th day of 2015. There are 218 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 27, 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, unanimously struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act, a key component of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" legislative program.
Ten years ago: Speaking out for the first time in favor of controversial base closings, President George W. Bush told the Naval Academy commencement the nation was wasting billions of dollars on unnecessary military facilities and needed the money for the war on terrorism.
Five years ago: On the defensive more than five weeks into the nation's worst-ever oil spill, President Barack Obama insisted his administration, not oil giant BP, was calling the shots in the still-unsuccessful response. The Senate Armed Services Committee and the full House approved measures to repeal the 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" law that allowed gay people to serve in the armed services provided they hid their sexual orientation. Activist Lori Berenson walked out of a prison in Peru after serving three-quarters of a 20-year term for aiding leftist rebels. (Under her parole, Berenson cannot leave Peru until her sentence ends in 2015, or her sentence is commuted.)
One year ago: Charting an end to America's longest war, President Barack Obama announced plans for keeping nearly 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014 but then withdrawing virtually all by the close of 2016 and the conclusion of his presidency. Michelle Obama struck back at House Republicans trying to weaken healthier school meal standards as she met with school nutrition officials who said the guidelines were working at their schools; the first lady called any effort to roll back the guidelines "unacceptable."
Today's Birthdays: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk (wohk) is 100. Actor Christopher Lee is 93. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is 92. Former FBI Director William Sessions is 85. Author John Barth is 85. Actress Lee Meriwether is 80. Musician Ramsey Lewis is 80. Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is 79. Rhythm-and-blues singer Raymond Sanders (The Persuasions) is 76. Country singer Don Williams is 76. Actor Bruce Weitz is 72. Singer Cilla Black is 72. Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Christopher Dodd is 71. Singer Bruce Cockburn (KOH'-burn) is 70. Singer-actress Dee Dee Bridgewater is 65. Actor Richard Schiff is 60. Singer Siouxsie Sioux (The Creatures, Siouxsie and the Banshees) is 58. Rock singer-musician Neil Finn (The Finn Brothers) is 57. Actress Peri Gilpin is 54. Actress Cathy Silvers is 54. Comedian Adam Carolla is 51. Actor Todd Bridges is 50. Rock musician Sean Kinney (Alice In Chains) is 49. Actor Dondre Whitfield is 46. Actor Paul Bettany is 44. Rock singer-musician Brian Desveaux (Nine Days) is 44. Country singer Jace Everett is 43. Actor Jack McBrayer is 42. Rapper Andre 3000 (Outkast) is 40. Rapper Jadakiss is 40. TV chef Jamie Oliver is 40. Alt-country singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson is 39. Actor Ben Feldman is 35. Actor Michael Steger is 35. Actor Darin Brooks is 31. Actor-singer Chris Colfer is 25. Actor Ethan Dampf is 21.
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Today is Friday, May 27, the 148th day of 2016. There are 218 days left in the year.
Today's Highlights in History:
On May 27, 1941, the British Royal Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of some 2,000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood with the loss of more than 1,400 lives. Amid rising world tensions, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency" during a radio address from the White House.
Ten years ago: A 6.3-magnitude earthquake in central Indonesia killed some 5,800 people. Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, was born in Namibia, where the family had traveled for privacy.
Five years ago: Astronauts Mike Fincke and Gregory Chamitoff made history as the final spacewalkers of NASA's 30-year shuttle program, completing construction of the International Space Station with the smooth addition of an extension pole. Rich countries and international lenders said at a Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, they were aiming to provide $40 billion in funding for Arab nations trying to establish democracy, starting with Egypt and Tunisia. President Barack Obama, visiting Poland, honored the memories of those slain in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazis. Gil Scott-Heron, 62, widely considered one of the godfathers of rap music, died in New York. Actor Jeff Conaway died at a hospital in Encino, Calif.; he was 60.
One year ago: The U.S. government launched an attack on what it called deep-seated and brazen corruption in soccer's global governing body, FIFA, indicting 14 influential figures on charges of racketeering and taking bribes. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, an aggressive advocate for conservative family values, launched a 2016 Republican White House bid. Nebraska's Legislature abolished the death penalty over the objections of Gov. Pete Ricketts, a Republican supporter of capital punishment.
Today's Birthdays: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk (wohk) is 101. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is 93. Former FBI Director William Sessions is 86. Author John Barth is 86. Actress Lee Meriwether is 81. Musician Ramsey Lewis is 81. Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is 80. Rhythm-and-blues singer Raymond Sanders (The Persuasions) is 77. Country singer Don Williams is 77. Actor Bruce Weitz is 73. Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Christopher Dodd is 72. Singer Bruce Cockburn (KOH'-burn) is 71. Singer-actress Dee Dee Bridgewater is 66. Actor Richard Schiff is 61. Singer Siouxsie Sioux (The Creatures, Siouxsie and the Banshees) is 59. Rock singer-musician Neil Finn (The Finn Brothers) is 58. Actress Peri Gilpin is 55. Actress Cathy Silvers is 55. Comedian Adam Carolla is 52. Actor Todd Bridges is 51. Rock musician Sean Kinney (Alice In Chains) is 50. Actor Dondre Whitfield is 47. Actor Paul Bettany is 45. Rock singer-musician Brian Desveaux (Nine Days) is 45. Country singer Jace Everett is 44. Actor Jack McBrayer is 43. Rapper Andre 3000 (Outkast) is 41. Rapper Jadakiss is 41. TV chef Jamie Oliver is 41. Alt-country singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson is 40. Actor Ben Feldman is 36. Actor Michael Steger is 36. Actor Darin Brooks is 32. Actor-singer Chris Colfer is 26. Actor Ethan Dampf is 22.
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Today is Saturday, May 27, the 147th day of 2017. There are 218 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 27, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., was opened to pedestrian traffic (vehicles began crossing the next day).
Ten years ago: American forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis in a raid on an al-Qaida hideout north of Baghdad. Dario Franchitti (DA'-ree-oh fran-KEE'-tee) won a rain-abbreviated Indy 500. Broadway actress Gretchen Wyler died in Camarillo, Calif., at age 75.
Five years ago: Syria strongly denied allegations that its forces had killed scores of people — including women and children — in Houla, but the U.N. Security Council condemned government forces for shelling residential areas. At the Cannes Film Festival, Austrian director Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film, "Amour." Dario Franchitti won the Indianapolis 500 for the third time. Johnny Tapia, the five-time boxing champion whose turbulent career was marked by cocaine addiction, alcohol, depression and run-ins with the law, was found dead at his Albuquerque, N.M., home; he was 45.
One year ago: President Barack Obama became the first American chief executive to visit Hiroshima, the city where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb during World War II, declaring it a fitting place to summon people everywhere to embrace the vision of a world without nuclear weapons. SpaceX pulled off another rocket landing, the third in just under two months, as the first-stage booster of the unmanned Falcon rocket settled vertically onto a barge 400 miles off Florida's east coast, eight minutes after the late afternoon liftoff.
Today's Birthdays — May 27: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk (wohk) is 102. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is 94. Former FBI Director William Sessions is 87. Author John Barth is 87. Actress Lee Meriwether is 82. Musician Ramsey Lewis is 82. Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is 81. Rhythm-and-blues singer Raymond Sanders (The Persuasions) is 78. Country singer Don Williams is 78. Actor Bruce Weitz is 74. Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Christopher Dodd is 73. Singer Bruce Cockburn (KOH'-burn) is 72. Singer-actress Dee Dee Bridgewater is 67. Actor Richard Schiff is 62. Singer Siouxsie Sioux (The Creatures, Siouxsie and the Banshees) is 60. Rock singer-musician Neil Finn (The Finn Brothers) is 59. Actress Peri Gilpin is 56. Actress Cathy Silvers is 56. Comedian Adam Carolla is 53. Actor Todd Bridges is 52. Rock musician Sean Kinney (Alice In Chains) is 51. Actor Dondre Whitfield is 48. Actor Paul Bettany is 46. Rock singer-musician Brian Desveaux (Nine Days) is 46. Country singer Jace Everett is 45. Actor Jack McBrayer is 44. Rapper Andre 3000 (Outkast) is 42. Rapper Jadakiss is 42. TV chef Jamie Oliver is 42. Alt-country singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson is 41. Actor Ben Feldman is 37. Actor Michael Steger is 37. Actor Darin Brooks is 33. Actor-singer Chris Colfer is 27. Actor Ethan Dampf is 23.
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Re: May 27th - The German Battleship Bismarck is sunk
Today is Tuesday, May 28, the 148th day of 2013. There are 217 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 28, 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, made up of freed blacks, left Boston to fight for the Union in the Civil War.
Ten years ago: President George W. Bush signed a 10-year, $350 billion package of tax cuts, saying they already were "adding fuel to an economic recovery." Amnesty International released a report saying the U.S.-led war on terror had made the world a more dangerous and repressive place, a finding dismissed by Washington as "without merit." Actress Martha Scott died in Van Nuys, Calif., at age 90.
Five years ago: The White House reacted angrily to a highly critical memoir by President George W. Bush's former press secretary, Scott McClellan, who wrote that Bush had relied on an aggressive "political propaganda campaign" instead of the truth to sell the Iraq war. Nepal's lawmakers abolished the monarchy and declared the country a republic, ending 239 years of royal rule.
One year ago: President Barack Obama paid tribute on Memorial Day to the men and women who died defending America, pointing to Vietnam veterans as an under-appreciated and sometimes maligned group of war heroes. Nineteen people, including 13 children, were killed in a mall fire in Qatar.
Today's Birthdays: Rockabilly singer-musician Sonny Burgess is 84. Actress Carroll Baker is 82. Producer-director Irwin Winkler is 82. Actor John Karlen is 80. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Jerry West is 75. Actress Beth Howland is 72. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is 69. Singer Gladys Knight is 69. Actress-director Sondra Locke is 69. Singer Billy Vera is 69. Singer John Fogerty is 68. Country musician Jerry Douglas (Alison Krauss and Union Station) is 57. Actor Louis Mustillo is 55. U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C.., is 53. Actor Brandon Cruz (TV: "The Courtship of Eddie's Father") is 51. Country singer Phil Vassar is 49. Actress Christa Miller is 49. Singer-musician Chris Ballew (Presidents of the USA) is 48. Rapper Chubb Rock is 45. Singer Kylie Minogue (KY'-lee mihn-OHG') is 45. Actor Justin Kirk is 44. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is 42. Television personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck ("The View") is 36. Actor Jesse Bradford is 34. Actress Monica Keena is 34. Pop singer Colbie Caillat (kal-LAY') is 28. Actress Carey Mulligan is 28. Actor Joseph Cross is 27.
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1905, Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history
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Re: May 27th - The German Battleship Bismarck is sunk
In 2016 - The Monkees album "Good Times!" was released. The album was recorded to commemorate the band's 50th anniversary.
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