Today In History
Today is Saturday, May 27, the 147th day of 2017. There are 218 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1937: The newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened to pedestrian traffic (vehicles began crossing the next day).
ON THIS DATE
› 1933: The Chicago World’s Fair, celebrating “A Century of Progress,” officially opened. Walt Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated short “The Three Little Pigs” was first released.
› 1936: The Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage to New York.
› 1942: Doris “Dorie” Miller, a cook aboard the USS West Virginia, became the first African-American to receive the Navy Cross for displaying “extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety” during Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
› 1957: The single “That’ll Be the Day” by Buddy Holly’s group The Crickets was released by Brunswick Records.
› 1985: In Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification for an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk is 102. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is
94. Former FBI Director William Sessions is 87. Author John Barth is 87. Actress Lee Meriwether is 82. Musician Ramsey Lewis is 82. Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is 81. Rhythm and blues singer Raymond Sanders (The Persuasions) is 78. Country singer Don Williams is
78. Actor Bruce Weitz is
74. Actor Richard Schiff is
62. Singer Siouxsie Sioux (The Creatures, Siouxsie and the Banshees) is 60. Rock singer-musician Neil Finn (The Finn Brothers) is 59. Actress Peri Gilpin is 56. Actress Cathy Silvers is 56. Comedian Adam Carolla is 53. Actor Todd Bridges is
52. Rock musician Sean Kinney (Alice In Chains) is 51. Actor Dondre Whitfield is 48. Actor Jack McBrayer is 44. Rapper Andre 3000 (Outkast) is 42. Rapper Jadakiss is
42. TV chef Jamie Oliver is 42. Alt-country singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson is 41. Actor Ben Feldman is 37. Actor Michael Steger is 37. Actor Darin Brooks is 33. Actor-singer Chris Colfer is 27. Actor Ethan Dampf is 23.