May 27th
Today in America's Present Past
1738 | Politician Nathaniel Gorham was born.
1794 | Entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt was born.
1813 | War of 1812: Americans capture Fort George, Canada.
1818 | Activist Amelia Jenks Bloomer was born.
1819 | Poet Julia Ward Howe was born.
1836 | Entrepreneur Jay Gould was born.
1837 | Frontiersman Wild Bill Hickok was born.
1862 | Civil War: Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia.
1863 | Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana.
1867 | Mythologist Thomas Bulfinch died.
1907 | Activist Rachel Carson was born.
1911 | POTUS: Vice President Hubert Humphrey was born.
1911 | Actor Vincent Price was born.
1912 | Golfer Sam Snead was born.
1915 | Novelist Herman Wouk was born.
1918 | Historian Henry Adams died.
1919 | Civil Rights: “Red Summer race riots” in Putnam County, Georgia.
1923 | Diplomat Henry Kissinger was born.
1930 | Entrepreneur Richard Drew invents masking tape.
1935 | SCOTUS: The National Recovery Act is ruled unconstitutional.
1941 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt declares a state of emergency after Germany sinks an American merchant ship.
1958 | Civil Rights: Earnest Green becomes the first African-American to graduate from Little Rock’s Central High School.
1968 | Civil Rights: Louisville, Kentucky, race riots.