May 27, 2023
QUOTE
It’s hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.
--Gregg Allman
BIRTHDAYS
1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, Peace officer
1915 – Herman Wouk, Novelist
1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor
1923 – Henry Kissinger, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate
1936 – Louis Gossett, Jr., Actor and producer
1968 – Frank Thomas, Baseball player and sportscaster
IN MEMORY
1992 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, Fiddler
2006 – Paul Gleason, Actor
2007 – Gretchen Wyler, Actress and dancer
2007 – Ed Yost, Inventor, considered the main creative force of the hot air balloon
2017 – Gregg Allman, Musician, singer and songwriter
IN ON THIS DAY
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1930 – The 1,046 feet Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic.
1958 – First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.