bransonglobe.com HISTORY May 27-28, 2020 • 15 Today in History: Sports, movies and more • 1679 Habeaus Corpus Act (strengthening person’s right to challenge unlawful arrest & imprisonment) passes in England • 1703 Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great • 1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois, destroyed by tornado • 1873 Heinrich Schliemann discovers “Priam’s Treasure” a cache of gold and other objects in Hisarlik (Troy) in Anatolia • 1896 Tornado hit St Louis, killing 255, leaving thousands homeless • 1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco • 1905 Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history • 1916 President Woodrow Wilson addresses the League to Enforce Peace, founded in 1915, and gives public support to the idea of a league of nations • 1930 The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest manmade structure at the time, opens to the public • 1935 Supreme Court declares FDR’s National Recovery Act unconstitutional • 1940 British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII • 1958 Ernest Green becomes the 1st African-American to graduate from Little Rock’s Central High School • 1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st Prime Minister of Kenya • 1969 Walt Disney World construction begins at Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida • 1995 Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition in Culpeper, Virginia • 1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reach the North Pole • 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 indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo • 2006 Earthquake strikes Java, Indonesia 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 Music • 1975 Paul McCartney releases “Venus & Mars” • 1977 The Sex Pistols release “God Save the Queen”, sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC Movies & TV • 1933 Walt Disney’s short film “3 Little Pigs” released (Academy Award Best Animated film 1934) • 1987 Christian evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker appear on “Nightline” after PTL scandal • 2005 DreamWorks computer-animated film “Madagascar” with voices by Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith is released. Sports • 1904 NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants) • 1968 George Halas retires from coaching, finishing with 318 regular-season wins and 6 NFL titles Birthdays • 1818 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, American reformer who campaigned for temperance and women’s rights, born in Homer, New York (d. 1894) • 1819 Julia Ward Howe, American poet and author (Battle Hymn of the Republic), born in NYC, New York (d. 1910) • 1837 “Wild Bill” Hickok [James Butler], American cowboy and scout, born in Troy Grove, Illinois (d. 1876) • 1911 Hubert Humphrey, American politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (1965-69), and 1968 Presidential candidate, born in Wallace, South Dakota (d. 1978) • 1912 Sam Snead, American golfer (7 PGA Tour major titles; US Masters 1949, 52, 54), born in Ashwood, Virginia (d. 2002) • 1923 Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State (197377) and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, born in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany • 1936 Louis Gossett Jr, American actor (Officer & Gentleman, Deep), born in Brooklyn, New York • 1939 Donald “Don” Williams, American country singer (I Believe in You), born in Floydada Texas (d. 2017) David • 1961 Peri Gilpin, actor (Roz Doyle-Frasier), born in Waco, Texas • 1965 Todd Bridges, actor (Diff’rent Strokes, Fish), born in San Francisco, California 1970 Joseph Fiennes, English • EXP 5/31/20 actor (Enemy at the Gates, Shakespeare in Love), born in Salisbury, Wiltshire • 1973 Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian
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