TMN STAFF
May 27, there are 219 days remaining in the year
1647– The first recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged.
1703– St. Petersburg was founded by Czar Peter the Great.
1936– The Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage, arriving in France four hours later.
1937– Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened.
1941– British ships sank the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of France, resulting in the loss of 2,300 lives.
1994– Nobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile.
1996– After a year and a half of bloodshed, Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with the leader of the Chechen rebels and negotiated a cease-fire.
1999– Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague for crimes against humanity.
Birthdays
1794– Cornelius Vanderbilt, industrialist, financier
1819– Julia Ward Howe, author, and social reformer
1837- “Wild Bill” Hickok, frontier marshal
1894– Dashiell Hammett, writer
1907– Rachel Louise Carson, biologist, author
1912– John Cheever, novelist
1923– Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State