Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of May 27:
1332 Ibn Khaldun Tunis, Arab historian/sociologist (Muqaddimah)
1595 Benedictus Carpzovius [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer
1626 William II prince of Orange/stadholder
1652 Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van de Palts German/French duchess of Orleans
1738 Bonaventura Furlanetto composer
1756 Maximilian I Jozef King of Bavaria
1774 Francis Beaufort Admiral/hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale)
1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt millionaire (B & O railroad)
1799 Jacques-François-Fromental-Elle Halevy [Elie Levy], composer
1806 Charles-Joseph Tolbecque composer
1815 Henry Parkes British journalist/premier of Australia
1818 Amelia Jenks Bloomer suffragette known for her pantaloons
1819 Julia Ward Howe US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic)
1822 Henry Wylde composer
1822 Josef Joachim Raff composer
1823 John Gray Foster Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1836 Edwin Gray Lee Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1870
1836 Jay Gould US railroad executive, financier
1837 "Wild Bill" Hickok [James Butler] cowboy/scout
1837 Robert Frederick Hoke Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
1839 Luigi Capuana Sicilian author/critic (Roccaverdina)
1849 "Blind" Tom Bethune pianist/composer
1852 Billy Barnes cricketer (England all-rounder 1880-90)
1854 Georges Eekhoud Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)
1861 Victoria E Matthews educator
1867 Arnold Bennett England, novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon)
1870 Lionel Palairet cricketer (elegant England bat in the Golden Age)
1871 Georges-Henri Rouault Fr expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre)
1874 Dustin Farnum US, actor (Squaw Man, Virginian) [or 1870]
1874 Richard von Schaukal Austria poet/writer (Eros Thanatos)
1879 Lucile Watson actress (Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine, Let's Dance)
1881 Rudolf Pannwitz German writer
1884 Bax Brod composer
1887 Emiel van der Straeten Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends)
1887 Erich Kuttner German journalist/historian (Vorwärts)
1887 Frank Woolley cricketer (long-running England left-arm all-rounder)
1888 Louis Durey composer
1891 Claude Adonai Champagne composer
1892 Sara Heyblom Dutch actress (Pygmalion, Fietsen naar de Maan)
1894 Dashiell Hammett Maryland, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon)
1894 Louis-Ferdinand Céline France, novelist (Journey to End of Night)
1895 Marij Kogoj composer
1897 John Douglas Cockroft English physicist (Radar, Nobel 1951)
19-- Isabel Lascurain México, singer
1902 Celius Dougherty composer
1906 Robert Shone director-general (NEDC)
1907 Felix de Nobel Dutch orchestra leader
1907 Rachel Louise Carson biologist/ecologist/writer (Silent Spring)
1908 Alex Brown snooker player
1908 Harold Rome composer (Fanny, Pins & Needles)
1908 Melle J Oldeboerrigter [Melle], Dutch painter/cartoonist
1909 Isador Goodman composer
1910 Daniel Greenway CEO (Daniel Greenway & Sons)
1911 Hubert Humphrey (Senator-D-MN) 38th Vice President (1965-69), 1969 Presidential candidate
1911 Torolf Elster Norwegian journalist/writer (Frihet och demokrati)
1911 Vincent Price St Louis MO, actor (House on Haunted Hill, The House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, Scream and Scream Again, The Fly)
1912 John Cheever writer (Wapshot Chronicle)
1912 Sam Snead Hot Springs VA, PGA golfer (Masters 1949, 52, 54/PGA-1963, 65, 67, 70, 72, 73)
1913 Arthur Mervyn Stockwood bishop (Southwark England)
1913 Wolfgang Schulze [Wols] German cartoonist/painter
1914 Hugh Le Caine composer
1914 Lord Erroll of Hale British minister
1914 Rose Stainton CEO (British Airways)
1915 Herman Wouk New York NY, novelist (Caine Mutiny, Winds of War)
1915 Mario del Monaco Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini)
1916 Norman Griggs Vice President (Building Society Association)
1918 Yasuhiro Nakasone Japanese PM (1982-87)
1919 Kam Fong Honolulu HI, actor (Hawaii Five-0)
1920 Michael Webster CEO (DRG)
1920 William Crawshay Lord-Lieutenant of Gwent
1921 Caryl Chessman kidnapper who got the death penalty (1960)
1921 Redd Stewart Ashland City TN, guitarist/pianist (Pee Wee King Show)
1922 Christopher Lee London England, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles)
1922 Sidney Keyes English poet (Iron Laurel)
1923 Henry Kissinger Secretary of State (1973-77)/Nobel Peace Prize (1973)
1923 Lord Freyberg British Colonel of General Staff
1925 John Moberly diplomat
1925 Mai Zetterling Sweden, actress (Only 2 Can Play, Quartet)
1926 Gordon Leggat cricketer (open batsman for New Zealand in 9 Tests 1953-56)
1927 Bryan Cowgill deputy chairman (Mirror Group)
1927 Jan Blokker Dutch writer/journalist (VPRO, People's Newspaper)
1928 Thea Musgrave Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer (Mary Queen of Scots)
1929 Donald Howard Keats composer
1930 Eino Tamberg composer
1930 John Barth novelist (The Sot-Weed Factor)
1930 Simon Barrington-Ward
1930 William S Sessions Arkansas, director of FBI
1931 Florence Sharples director (British YWCA)
1931 John Chapple British chief of General Staff
1931 Kenny Price Florence KY, country singer (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw)
1931 Veroslav Neumann composer
1932 Jeffrey Bernard singer
1934 Harlan [Jay] Ellison US, sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Doomsman, Babylon 5)
1935 Elias Gistelinck Flemish composer
1935 Lee Meriwether Los Angeles CA, Miss America (Time Tunnel, Barnaby Jones)
1935 Ramsey Lewis Chicago IL, pop jazz artist (Hang on Sloopy)
1936 Benjamin Bathurst vice chief of British Defense Staff
1936 Eric Anderson headmaster (Eton)
1936 Lord Holme president British Liberal Party
1936 Louis Gossett Jr Brooklyn NY, actor (An Officer & a Gentleman, The Deep)
1939 Don Williams Floydada TX, country singer (I Believe in You)
1939 Earl Cairns CEO (S G Warburg & Co)
1939 Jerry Mercer Montréal Canada, rock drummer (April Wine-Just Between You and Me)
1940 Rene Koering composer
1941 Adriaan Venema Dutch journalist/author (Mussert)
1941 Allan Carr Chicago IL, director (Grease, Happiest Millionaire)
1941 Davina Phillips actress
1942 Kent Bede Bernard Trinidad, 4X400 runner (Olympics-bronze-1964)
1942 Priscilla Anne McLean composer
1942 Roger Freeman British minister of transport
1943 Bruce Weitz Norwalk CT, actor (Hill St Blues, Death of a Centerfold)
1943 Cilla Black Liverpool England, rock vocalist (You're My World)
1944 Christopher J Dodd (Governor/Senator-D-CT, 1981- )
1945 Bruce Cockburn Ottawa Canada, folk rock vocalist (Waterwalker)
1947 Liana Alexandra composer
1947 Peter DeFazio (Representative-D-OR)
1947 Robert Reinacher Jr horse trainer
1948 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-8, T-14, TM-7)
1948 Anna E "Annelies" Balhan Dutch revue-artist/actress (Sweet Chairty)
1948 Pete Sears bassist (Jefferson Starship)
1951 Beau Kazer Toronto Ontario Canada, actor (Brock-Young and Restless)
1951 John Conteh boxer
1951 Norma Jean Almodovar Binghampton, auto-biographer (Cop to Call Girl)
1954 Catherine Carr US breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1972)
1955 Bill Malley Oakland CA, Nike golfer (1991 El Paso Open-30th)
1955 Graeme "Jock" Edwards cricketer (beefy New Zealand lefty batsman late 70's)
1956 Lisa Niemi Houston TX, actress (Dirty Dancing, Will Rodgers Follies)
1956 Nick Lowery NFL kicker (New York Jets)
1956 Steve Pagano horse trainer
1957 Bruce Furniss US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1976)
1957 Duncan Goodhew swimmer
1957 Siouxsie Sioux [Janet Susan Dallion] Kent England, punk rock vocalist (Siouxsie & the Bandshee-Wild Thing)
1958 Linnea Quigley Davenport IA, actress (Night of the Demons, Virgin High)
1958 Neil Finn rocker (Split Enz-I Got You, Crowded House)
1960 Ray Armsetad Kirksville MO, 4X400 runner (Olympics-gold-1984)
1960 Vinodhan John cricket pace bowler (Sri Lankan in 6 Tests 1983-84)
1961 Cathy Silvers New York NY, actress (Jenny-Happy Days, Foley Square)
1961 Jill Sterkel US swimmer (Olympics-bronze-1976, 84, 88)
1961 John Lugbill Wauseon OH, US canoist/kayaker (Olympics-92)
1961 Peri Gilpin Waco TX, actor (Roz Doyle-Frasier)
1962 Mariangela D'Abbraccio Naples Italy, TV actress (Passioni)
1962 Meg Parsont personality (David Letterman Show)
1962 Ravi Shastri cricketer (Indian SLA all-rounder 1981-92)
1962 Ray Borner Australian basketball center (Olympics-1984, 88, 92, 96)
1965 Jacob Brumfield Bogalusa LA, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1965 Pat Cash Australia, tennis player (Wimbledon 1987)
1965 Todd Bridges San Fransisco CA, actor (Diff'rent Strokes, Fish)
1966 Eric Leckner NBA center (Detroit Pistons)
1966 John Jaha Portland OR, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1966 Ray Sheppard Pembroke, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
1966 Sean Kinney US rock drummer (Alice in Chains-We Die Young)
1967 Chin Yang jockey
1967 Doug West NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1967 George McCloud NBA forward/guard (Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns)
1967 Paul Gascoigne soccer player
1967 Ruthie Bolton Holifield WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs/Olympics-gold-96)
1968 Cedric Smith NFL running back (Washington Redskins, Arizona Cardinals)
1968 Frank Thomas "Big Hurt", 1st baseman (Chicago White Sox, 1993 MVP)
1968 Jeff Bagwell Boston MA, infielder (Houston Astros)
1968 John Connelly Toledo OH, Nike golfer (1991 New Hampshire Open)
1969 Chip Beake WLAF administrative assistant (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 Dondré T Whitfield Brooklyn NY, actor (Another World, All My Children)
1969 François Letourneau St Jerome Québec, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1969 Lesley Tashlin Toronto Ontario, 100 meter hurdler (Olympics-96)
1969 Todd Hundley Martinsville VA, catcher (New York Mets)
1969 Travis Williams NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets)
1970 Liz Earley St Catharines Ontario, LPGA golfer (1995 Thailand Open)
1970 Michael Blackburn Australian laser yachter (Olympics-96)
1970 Todd Collins linebacker (New England Patriots)
1971 Corey Beck NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets)
1971 Ferdino Hernandez soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1971 Monika Schnarre Toronto Ontario Canada, actress (Ivana-Bold & Beautiful)
1971 Scott Szeredy NFL/WLAF kicker/punter (Chiefs, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Antonio Freeman NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 Karen Hecox US 1500 meter runner
1972 Troy Sienkiewicz NFL tackle/guard (San Diego Chargers)
1974 Danny Wuerffel NFL quarterback (New Orleans Saints)
1976 Darrell Russell defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1976 Richard Park Seoul Kor, NHL center (Pittsburgh Penguins)
1980 Jessica Deglau Vancouver British Columbia, 200 meter butterfly (Olympics-96)
Deaths which occurred on May 27:
0866 Ordoño I King of Asturia (850-66), dies
0927 Symeon czar of Bulgaria ( -927)
1039 Dirk III Hierosolymita Count of Holland, dies
1178 Godfried van Rhenen bishop of Utrecht, dies
1508 Ludovico Sforza [il Moro] Italian duke of Milan, dies at 55
1525 Thomas Münzer German vicar/boer leader, executed
1541 Margaretha duchess of Salisbury, beheaded
1549 Lijsbeth Dirksdr Fries antabaptist, drowns
1564 Jean Caulvin [John Calvin] priest/church reformer, dies at 54
1569 François de Coligny French general (Jarnac), dies
1576 Louis de Boisot Dutch Admiral, drowns at about 44
1580 Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum dies
1596 Tibaldi II Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies
1627 Everhardus van Bronchorst lawyer, dies at 73
1638 Nicolas Forme composer, dies at 71
1647 Achsah Young becomes 1st woman known to be executed as a witch (Massachusetts)
1652 Jacques Huyn composer, dies at 39
1661 Archibald Campbell Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53
1690 Giovanni Legrenzi Italian composer, dies at 63
1708 Jacques Danican Philidor composer, dies at 51
1768 Johann M Fleischmann German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies
1790 Jeremiah Carlton laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed & stayed there for next 70 years, dies at 89
1797 François-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf French utopian socialist, dies at 36
1840 Niccolò Paganini composer/violinist, dies at 57
1855 Nikolaj A Bestoezjev Russian writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies
1863 Edward Payson Chapin Union Brigadier General, dies at 31
1876 Joseph Bosworth lexicographer/scholar, dies
1878 Carlo Marsili composer, dies at 49
1887 Coenraad J van Houten Dutch cocoa manufacturer, dies at 86
1896 Allard Pierson theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies
1902 Jan van Droogenbroeck Flemish poet, dies
1910 Robert Koch German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies
1914 Joseph Wilson Swan physicist/chemist, dies
1916 Joseph S Galliéni General/Military Governor of Paris, dies
1918 Henry Adams US literature historian (Esther), dies at 80
1925 Ed McKeever president (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies of pneumonia
1934 Meijer Linnewiel [Professor Kokadorus] Amsterdam street hawker, dies
1939 Joseph Roth Austria, journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies at 44
1941 AH Borgesius tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76
1941 Günther Lütjens German Admiral (Bismarck), dies
1949 Ropert L Ripley cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in New York
1951 Thomas Blamey soldier, dies
1954 Herzmanovsky-Orlando writer, dies
1958 Ainslie Pryor actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46
1958 Samuel Stritch US cardinal/archbishop (Chicago), dies
1960 Edward Brophy actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy), dies at 65
1960 George Zucco actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Desire Me), dies at 74
1963 Lambrakis Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered
1964 Jawaharial Nehru Independent India's 1st PM, dies at 74
1968 Little Willie John rocker, dies at 30
1969 Jeffrey Hunter actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage), dies at 43
1970 Emmy van Lokhorst author, dies at 78
1971 Chips Rafferty actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at 62
1975 Ezzard Charles heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), dies in Chicago at 53
1976 Ruth McDevitt actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80
1982 Jo Lagrillière [Joke] Flemish cartoon character, dies at 47
1983 Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk composer, dies at 67
1985 Kay Campbell actress (All My Children), dies at 80
1986 Gaston Duribreux Flemish writer (Sour Dove), dies at 82
1988 Florida Friebus actress (Bob Newhart Show), dies of a stroke at 79
1988 Melvin J "Cy" Oliver US jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies at 77
1988 Renato Salvatori actor (Burn, Luna, 2 Women), dies
1989 Jack Starrett director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies
1991 Ed Dodd cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88
1992 Daniël Robberechts Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55
1992 Glen White dancer/actor (Graft, Camille), dies of AIDS at 42
1992 John Myhers director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at 70
1992 Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo mobster (St Valentines Day), dies at 86
1993 Jan Wiley actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies
1993 Willem P G Assmann Dutch MP, dies at 85
1994 Norman Cook British museum curator, dies at 87
1994 Red Rodney [Albino Red/The Red Arrow] bebop-trumpeter, dies at 66
1994 Theo Swagemakers portrait painter, dies at 95
1995 C W Stubblefield music Promoter, dies at 64
1995 Ulyses Simpson Kay composer, dies at 78
1996 Albert "Pud" Brown clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 79
1996 Ivan Sutton concert Promotoer, dies at 82
1996 Jack Massey groundsman, dies at 85
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
AA HIT CRASH TARGET AREA NO PARA 1966 MONAHAN ROBERT W. 01/01/67 RELEASED 1966 SCALES THOMAS R. 01/01/67 RELEASED REFNO 0347 DECEASED 1967 BLACKWOOD GORDON B. PALO VERDE CA PROB DEAD---REMAINS RETURNED ID 11/20/89 1970 LEE GLEN H. HONOLULU HI REMAINS ID'D 8/23/94 DPMO SP GLENN 1971 KNUCKEY THOMAS W. WHARTON NJ REMAINS IDENTIFIED 02 AUG 93 1971 TAYLOR PHILLIP C. GRAND ISLAND NY REMAINS IDENTIFIED 02 AUG 93 1972 LATENDRESSE THOMAS B. YAKIMA WA 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1281 Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge
1328 French king Philip VI Valois crowned
1529 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
1660 Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire
1679 Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in UK
1689 Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland
1703 St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
1738 Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov
1796 James S McLean patents his piano
1813 Americans capture Fort George, Canada
1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo IL destroyed by tornado
1854 Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed
1856 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning
1862 Battle of Hanover Court House VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die
1863 Siege of Port Hudson LA
1864 Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop) VA
1873 1st Preakness Stakes won by Survivor (2:43)
1878 6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75
1878 Australia Cricket 41 & 12-1 defeat MCC 33 & 19
1881 9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40½
1882 10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44½
1883 Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow
1893 Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland
1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
1896 1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis MO); killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless
1896 Bay District Race Track closes
1898 Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the 'Wells'" premieres in London
1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa
1902 27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8
1903 37th Belmont Stakes: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75
1903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam
1904 National League record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, New York Giants)
1905 30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8
1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
1906 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Fransisco
1916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in the Bronx
1917 Race riot in East St Louis IL, 1 black killed
1918 Battle of Aisne
1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster
1920 Tatar ASSR is established in Russian SFSR
1921 After 84 years of British control, Afghánistán achieves sovereignty
1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1927 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakian president
1929 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England
1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape
1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field VA
1931 Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon; 1st use of pressurized cabin in a balloon
1933 Austrian communist party banned
1933 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
1933 Federal Securities Act signed
1933 Trailing 11-3, Yankees score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11
1933 Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional
1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for New York on maiden voyage
1937 Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936)
1937 Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, dedicated
1938 Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of England season, earliest to do so
1940 British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta
1941 FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
1942 Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered
1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
1942 Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot & mortally wounded in Prague
1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris
1943 US forbids racial discrimination in war industry
1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
1944 Jean-Paul Sartre's "Huis Clos" premieres in Paris France
1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid
1948 Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians
1949 Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day"
1949 Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane
1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin
1950 "Arms & the Girl" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 134 performances
1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Fransisco opens
1952 European Defense Community forms
1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
1955 Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0
1955 Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1956 French raid in Algiers
1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1958 Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1960 Baltimore manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt (used by Clint Courtney)
1960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
1961 1st black light is sold
1961 Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup II in Florence
1961 President Kennedy announces US goal to reach the Moon
1961 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 27' ½"
1962 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1963 3 New Jersey businessmen purchase the NHL Colorado Rockies, & get approval to move them to the New Jersey Meadowlands (Devils)
1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya
1964 "From Russia With Love" premieres in US
1964 Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
1965 Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan
1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes
1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain
1967 "Sherry!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 65 performances
1968 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 4-3
1968 National League awards Montréal & San Diego major league franchises
1968 Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost
1969 Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV
1969 Walt Disney World construction begins
1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 23rd Walker Cup: Great Britain/Ireland 13-United States 11
1971 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
1972 "Applause" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 900 performances
1972 "Jimmy Castor Bunch's Troglodyte" (Cave Man) hits #6
1973 Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6
1974 Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning
1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
1975 Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2
1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges from Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
1976 "Something's Afoot" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 61 performances
1977 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
1977 NYC fines George Willig 1¢ for each of 110 stories of the World Trade Center he climbed
1979 Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop
1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
1981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
1981 Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but the umpire says no
1981 Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris France
1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" opens at Alvin NYC for 5 performances
1982 John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies & gets approval to move to New Jersey
1983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress
1984 Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker Contest" premieres in NYC
1984 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1984 Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day
1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1985 Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan
1986 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking
1986 President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
1987 Jim & Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal
1987 Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
1987 Yankee Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young & Sutton)
1988 Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles
1990 74th Indianapolis 500 runs; Arie Luyendyk wins with an average speed of 185.981 mph
1990 César Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia
1990 Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game
1990 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1990 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
1993 Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 homeruns
1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
1994 Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile
1994 Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show
1994 Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters
1994 Larry King ended his radio show
1994 Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35)
1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
1997 Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract
1997 Major league revenue sharing begins, New York Yankees pay out most $28 million
1997 Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault
1997 Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Afghánistán : Independence Day (1921)
Nicaragua : Army Day
Nigeria : Children's Day
Turkey : Freedom & Constitution Day (1960, 1961)
US : Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
- - - - - ( Monday ) Virginia : Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
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Religious Observances
old Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St John I, pope, martyr
old Roman Catholic : Feast of St Bede the Venerable, doctor, writer
Lutheran : Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the church
Anglican : Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer
Religious History
1664 Colonial theologian Increase Mather, 24, was installed as minister of Boston's Second (Congregational) Church. He remained there until his death in 1723.
1799 Birth of George Washington Doane, American Episcopal clergyman. One of the foremost promoters of Episcopal missions in his day, Doane also authored many hymns, including "Fling Out the Banner! Let It Float" and "Softly Now the Light of Day."
1917 Benedict XV promulgated the "Codex iuris canonici." Divided into five books and 2,414 regulations, the CIC was the first revision of canon law in the Catholic church in modern times, and went into effect at Pentecost the following year.
1924 The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting at Springfield, Maryland, repealed its ban on dancing and theater attendance.
1927 Birth of Ralph Carmichael, a popular sacred composer whose works flourished most during the 1960s-1970s. Among his oftªsung arrangements are "The Savior is Waiting" and "He's Everything to Me."
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987. Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)
Thought for the day :
" When forced to choose between two evils, try the new one. "
