Today in History
Listings for Saturday, May 27, 2023.
Birthdays:
- 1818 Amelia Bloomer, suffragist known for her pantaloons
- 1837 Wild Bill Hickock
- 1862 J.E. Campbell --1924
- 1878 Isadora Duncan
- 1894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective
- 1907 Rachel Carson, ecologist
- 1911 Hubert H. Humphrey
- 1911 Vincent Price
- 1922 Christopher Lee
- 1923 Henry Kissinger
- 1936 Louis Gossett, Jr.
- 1957 Janet Susan Ballion, later to be known as Siouxsie Sioux
- 1965 Todd Bridges
- 1969 Jeremy Mayfield
Events:
- 1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
- 1937 Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.
That's all for today.
