History for May 27

History for May 27 - On-This-Day.com:
Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794 - Entrepreneur (shipping and railroads), Julia Ward Howe 1819 - Abolitionist, social activist, poet ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic"), Wild Bill Hickok 1837 - gunfighter, scout, lawman 


Rachel Carson (Rachel Louise Carson) 1907 - Marine biologist, nature writer, Vincent Price 1911 - Actor, Hubert H. Humphrey (Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr.) 1911 - Served as Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson 


Herman Wouk 1915 - Author, Henry Kissinger 1923 - Former U.S. Secretary of State, Ramsey Lewis 1935 - Musician, composer, radio personality 


1647 - Alse Young (Achsah Young or Alice Young), a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a "witch." It was the first recorded American execution of a "witch." 


1933 - Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs" was first released. 
Disney movies, music and books 


1933 - In the U.S., the Federal Securities Act was signed. The act required the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission. 


1941 - The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed. 


1942 - German General Erwin Rommel began a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps. 


1964 - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharla Nehru died. 


1969 - Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida. 


1994 - Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia. He had been in exile for two decades. 


1995 - In Charlottesville, VA, Christopher Reeve was paralyzed after being thrown from his horse during a jumping event. 


1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while President Clinton was in office.