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On This Day:
Wednesday May 27, 2009
This is the 147th day of the year, with 218 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: Stratosphere
In 1931, Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer made the first manned balloon
flight into the stratosphere. They were launched in a balloon, designed by
Piccard, from Augsburg, Germany and in a pressurized cabin they rose almost 10
miles (51,775 feet) during the flight. During the flight, Piccard gathered
valuable information regarding the intensity of cosmic rays in the stratosphere
and also recorded a wide range of stratospheric temperatures.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Julius the Veteran, St. Eutropius of Orange, St.
Restituta of Sora, and St. Melangel.
Events
1647 - Achsah Young became the first woman known to be executed as a
witch in Massachusetts.
1703 - After winning access to the Baltic Sea through his victories in
the Great Northern War, Czar Peter I founded the city of St. Petersburg as the
new Russian capital.
1929 - Colonel Charles Lindbergh married Anne Spencer Murrow.
1930 - Richard Gurley Drew received a patent for adhesive tape, later
made by 3M as Scotch tape.
1931 - In a balloon launched from Germany, Paul Kipfer and Auguste
Piccard became the first to reach the stratosphere, rising almost 10 miles
during their flight.
1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Marin County,
California, was opened.
1941 - The British navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France,
with the German death toll over 2,000.
1994 - Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to
Russia after two decades of exile.
Births
1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American shipping and railroad magnate,
established ferry service between Manhattan, Staten Islands.
1818 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, American reformer.
1819 - Julia Ward Howe, American author, reformer; wrote "Battle Hymn of
the Republic".
1837 - Wild Bill Hickok (James Butler Hickok), American marshall,
frontiersman.
1878 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer and choreographer.
1894 - Dashiell Hammett, American author.
1907 - Rachel Carson, American biologist, writer.
1911 - Hubert Humphrey, American politician.
1911 - Vincent Price, American film actor.
1915 - Herman Wouk, American writer.
1922 - Christopher Lee (born Christopher Frank Carandini Lee), English
actor.
1923 - Henry Kissinger, American statesman and political scientist.
1945 - Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician.
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, English musician.
Deaths
1564 - John Calvin, French religious reformer.
1931 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist.
1949 - Robert Ripley (born LeRoy Ripley), American cartoonist who created
the Ripley's Believe It or Not! series.
1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian statesman and prime minister.
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