As we speak is Tuesday, Might 27, the 147th day of 2025. There are 218 days left within the yr.
As we speak in historical past:
On Might 27, 1937, the newly accomplished Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened to pedestrian site visitors (autos started crossing the subsequent day).
Additionally on this date:
In 1896, 255 folks had been killed when a devastating F4 twister struck St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois.
In 1930, New York’s Chrysler Constructing, on the time the world’s tallest constructing, opened to the general public.
In 1941, the British Royal Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France, killing over 2,000 German sailors.
In 1942, Doris “Dorie” Miller, a cook dinner aboard the usWest Virginia, turned the primary African-American to obtain the Navy Cross for displaying “extraordinary braveness and disrespect for his personal private security” throughout Japan’s assault on Pearl Harbor.
In 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court docket, in United States v. O’Brien, upheld the conviction of David O’Brien for destroying his draft card exterior a Boston courthouse, ruling that the act was not protected by freedom of speech.
In 1993, a bomb set by the Sicilian mafia exploded exterior the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy; 5 folks had been killed and 48 wounded, and dozens of centuries-old work had been destroyed or broken.
In 1994, Nobel Prize-winning creator Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia to the emotional cheers of 1000’s after spending 20 years in exile.
In 1998, Michael Fortier, the federal government’s star witness within the Oklahoma Metropolis bombing case, was sentenced to 12 years in jail after apologizing for not warning anybody in regards to the lethal plot. (Fortier was freed in January 2006.)
In 2006, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Java close to the town of Yogyakarta, killing greater than 5,700 folks.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- Actor Lee Meriwether is 90.
- Actor Bruce Weitz is 82.
- Musician Bruce Cockburn is 80.
- Singer Dee Dee Bridgewater is 75.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Jackie Slater is 71.
- Actor Richard Schiff is 70.
- Singer Siouxsie Sioux is 68.
- Musician Neil Finn (Cut up Enz, Crowded Home) is 67.
- Actor Peri Gilpin is 64.
- Comic Adam Carolla is 61.
- Actor Todd Bridges is 60.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Jeff Bagwell is 57.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Frank Thomas is 57.
- Actor Paul Bettany is 54.
- Actor Jack McBrayer is 52.
- Rapper-musician Andre 3000 (Outkast) is 50.
- Rapper Jadakiss is 50.
- Movie star chef Jamie Oliver is 50.
- Actor Ben Feldman is 45.
- Actor-singer Chris Colfer is 35.
- Actor Lily-Rose Depp is 26.
- Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Jade Carey is 25.
