May 27

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the Bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco, California.

Today is the anniversary of the jukeobox (so I am told).

And today is my birthday.

Gratulerer med dagen!

Grattis pŒ fšdelsedagen

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag

Events on May 27th

1120 – Richard III of Capua anointed as prince a fortnight before his untimely death.
1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1812 – South American Wars of Independence: In Bolivia, the battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fought against the Spanish army.
1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1849 – The Great Hall of Euston station, London opened.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1895 – Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy.
1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and incurring $2.9 billion in damages (1997USD).
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1907 – A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model A’s.
1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
1933 – The Century of Progress World’s Fair opens in Chicago.
1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
1939 – DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
1940 – World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knoechlein, is eventually hanged for war crimes.
1941 – World War II: U.S. President Roosevelt proclaims an “unlimited national emergency”.
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300 men.
1942 – World War II: Operation Anthropoid – assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.
1957 – Toronto’s 1050 CHUM AM becomes Canada’s first radio station to only broadcast top 40 Rock n’ Roll music format.
1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removed President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1963 – Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan album, which features “Blowin’ in the Wind” and several other of his best-known songs.
1964 – Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.
1965 – Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombardments of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.
1967 – Australians vote in favour 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.
1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is christened by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1968 – the meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (national Union of the students of France), most outstanding of the events of May 1968, proceeds and gathers 30.000 to 50.000 people in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1977 – An Aeroflot plane crashes, killing 69 people.
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.
1994 – The Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to his native Russia after 20 years of exile in the United States.
1995 – In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1996 – First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.
1997 – The F5-strength Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sex harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
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.
1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
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.

Births

1332 – Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (d. 1406)
1519 – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594)
1576 – Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649)
1601 – Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1648)
1623 – William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
1626 – William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
1651 – Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)
1652 РLiselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orl̩ans (d. 1722)
1738 – Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)
1756 – King Maximilian I of Bavaria (d. 1825)
1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
1818 – Amelia Bloomer, American suffragette (d. 1894)
1819 – Julia Ward Howe, American composer (d. 1910)
1827 – Samuel F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892)
1836 – Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
1837 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
1864 – Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (d. 1938)
1867 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
1871 – Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
1876 – Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (d. 1945)
1879 – Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962)
1884 – Max Brod, Austrian author (d. 1968)
1888 – Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
1891 – Claude Champagne, French Canadian composer (d. 1965)
1893 РHermann D̦rnemann German WW1 veteran and supercenetarian (d. 2005)
1894 РLouis-Ferdinand C̩line, French writer (d. 1961)
1894 – Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961)
1897 – John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1900 – UÅ‚adzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
1904 – Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
1907 – Rachel Carson, American biologist and science writer (d. 1964)
1911 – Hubert H. Humphrey, Vice President of the United States (d. 1978)
1911 – Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (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, baseball player (d. 1995)
1913 – Wols, German painter (d. 1951)
1915 – Herman Wouk, American writer
1918 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, Prime Minister of Japan
1921 – Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (d. 1960)
1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor
1923 – Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1923 – Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
1925 – Tony Hillerman, American writer
1930 – John Barth, American novelist
1930 – William S. Sessions, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1933 – Ted Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur
1934 – Harlan Ellison, American author
1935 – Lee Meriwether, Miss America and actress
1935 – Ramsey Lewis, American pianist
1935 – Mal Evans, British Beatles assistant (d. 1976)
1936 – Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
1936 – Marcel Masse, Canadian politician
1937 – Allan Carr, American film producer and writer (d. 1999)
1939 – Socratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman, owner of Olympiacos
1943 – Cilla Black, English singer and presenter
1943 – Bruce Weitz, American actor
1944 – Alain Souchon, French singer and songwriter
1945 – Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
1946 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish musician (d. 2005)
1947 – Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
1948 – Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
1951 РAna Bel̩n, Spanish singer and actress
1955 – Richard Schiff, American actor
1955 – Eric Bischoff, American professional wrestling promoter
1957 – Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees )
1958 – Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
1958 – Linnea Quigley, American actress
1961 – Peri Gilpin, American actress
1962 – Ray Borner, Australian basketball player
1964 – Adam Carolla, American comedian, radio and television personality
1967 – Paul Gascoigne, British footballer
1968 – Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
1968 – Frank Thomas, American baseball player
1970 – Tim Farron, British politician
1970 – Joseph Fiennes, English actor
1970 – Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
1971 – Paul Bettany, English actor
1971 – Kaur Kender, Estonian author
1971 – Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes, American singer (d. 2002)
1971 – Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman
1971 – Monika Schnarre, Canadian model
1972 – Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer
1974 – Derek Webb, American singer and songwriter (Caedmon’s Call)
1974 – Danny Wuerffel, American football player
1975 РAndr̩ 3000, American musician (OutKast)
1975 – Jadakiss, American rapper (The Lox)
1975 – Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality
1975 – Michael Hussey, Australian cricket player
1977 – Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete
1977 – Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
1979 – Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
1981 – Marcos Miloy, Angolan footballer
1981 – Özgür Çevik, Turkish singer and actor
1983 – Bobby Convey, American soccer player
1984 – Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player
1985 – Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player

Deaths

366 – Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
735 – Bede, English historian and theologian (b. 672 or 673)
866 РOrdo̱o I of Asturias, King of Asturias (b. 831)
927 – Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria (b. 864 or 865)
1039 – Dirk III, Count of Holland
1444 – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
1508 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)
1525 – Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader
1541 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473)
1564 – John Calvin, French religious reformer (b. 1509)
1610 РFran̤ois Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
1615 – Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
1661 – Archibald Campbell, Scottish religious dissident (b. 1607)
1675 – Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
1690 – Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b. 1626)
1702 – Dominique Bouhours, French critic (b. 1628)
1707 – Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1641)
1781 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716)
1797 – François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary and early socialist (b. 1760)
1831 – Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
1840 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
1896 – Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
1910 – Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1843)
1919 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam Social Reformer of Andhra Pradesh, India (b. 1848)
1926 – Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
1947 – Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1949 – Robert Ripley, American cartoonist (Ripley’s Believe It or Not!) (b. 1890)
1953 – Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (b. 1868)
1960 – James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (b. 1877)
1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (b. 1889)
1963 – Gregoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)
1967 – Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
1969 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926)
1986 – Isma’il Raji’ al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher and scholar (b. 1921)
1987 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1989 – Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
1990 – Robert B. Meyner, American politician (b. 1908)
1991 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
1992 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
1993 – Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)
1993 – Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
2000 – Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)
2000 – Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
2001 – Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929)
2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
2006 – Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
2006 – Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
2006 – Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
2006 – Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949)

Holidays and Observances

Lag Ba’omer in Judaism (2005)
Feast day of the following saints in the Christian Church:
o Augustine of Canterbury
o Venerable Bede
o Saint Julius the Veteran
o Pope John I
o Hildebert
o Bruno, Bishop of Würzburg
o Eutropius
Mother’s Day in Bolivia (Día de la Madre) and Sweden (Mors Dag)
Children’s Day in Nigeria

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