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.
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 – SreÄko 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 (DÃa de la Madre) and Sweden (Mors Dag)
Children’s Day in Nigeria
 This was posted on one of my forums by a 15 year old. I started reading it expecting some horrible self indulgent drivel. What I read instead is very beautiful I think. Not telling anyone what to do, just sharing it as food for thought.
TIPS FOR PARENTS FROM A 15 YEAR OLD
Lesson One – When your child asks you to explain something, please explain it. If you don’t, their friends will. *This was edited because it contained many four letter words, which were examples of things you should explain if asked*
Lesson Two– No matter how many Blockers, firewalls, programs, or even if you do not have a computer in your home, you kids will see porn before they are 15 years old. Most times it will be earlier. My first experience was with a pop up I clicked. I was 9. Yay. You can do nothing about it. Face that reality. It would be nice if you had talked to them about sex before they are exposed to that.
Lesson Three– Your kids will have secrets. You were akid. You know that. It may kill you as a parent, but they will not tell you everything, no matter how close you are.
Lesson Four– In that magical moment when you kid actually comes to you and wants to talk, listen. Please. Communication is key. Don’t interrupt them, nomatter how horrified you are at what they may be telling you. They are alive and talking to you, so they obviously survived whatever it was. LISTEN. Do not judge.
Lesson Five– Do whatever is necessary to have your kids trust you. Would you rather them get in a car drunk after a party because they’re terrified of what you’ll do to them, or would you rather them call you to come pick them up? You kids will probably do some stupid stuff. Teach them their lesson once everything is calm.
Lesson Six– I think this one is hard for parents to accept. Your kids are NOT you. They have their own minds, opinions, ideas about the world. You may teach them, live a certain way, do certain things, but in the end, what if they turn out to not follow those beliefs? What if they believe in the exact opposite of what you believe? Are you gonna disown them? Hopefully not. If they come to you and say something outrageous, let them explain everything, and them put in your two cents. Hopefully you can all learn to love each other for Who You Really Are. (I got that one from Conversations with God.)
Lesson Seven– Your kids will learn as much or even maybe more about things from their friends than from you. You can’t change that. You may hate their friends, but making them stop associating with them will only make things worse, most of the time. You can’t control you kids. Well, you can try, but they’ll hate you for it. In my experience with people in my school, anyway….you don’t want your kids to rebel.
Lesson Eight– You do not have all the answers. Kids need to figure a lot of things out on their own. Teach them about the world, about drugs, about sex. Give them the information they need for life. Tell them to stand up for what they believe in, and to never give up. We may hate you for all you do, we may be furious and not talk to you for a week, but we all secretly know that almost all you do is because you love us and want to see us succeed.
Above all, love your children with all your heart.
