12 History Lessons + 2 Births & 6 Deaths for May 27, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 1813 – War of 1812: American forces capture Fort George in Ontario, Canada.
- 1905 – The Battle of Tsushima begins during the Russo-Japanese War, resulting in a decisive Japanese naval victory.
- 1923 – The Ku Klux Klan is granted a charter to operate as a nonprofit organization in Georgia.
- 1930 – The Chrysler Building opens in New York City as the world’s tallest building at the time.
- 1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases The Three Little Pigs, featuring the hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
- 1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic; it would open to vehicles the next day.
- 1941 – WWII: British Royal Navy sinks the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic.
- 1967 – Australians vote in a referendum to include Indigenous people in the national census.
- 1995 – Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed in a horse-riding accident.
- 1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević for war crimes.
- 2016 – Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, Japan.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1965 – Todd Bridges, American actor (Diff’rent Strokes) (60)
- 1971 – Paul Bettany, British actor (WandaVision, A Beautiful Mind) (54)
Today’s Deaths:
- 1564 – John Calvin, French theologian and Protestant Reformation leader (Age 54)
- 1960 – James Montgomery Flagg, American artist, creator of the “Uncle Sam Wants You” poster (Age 82)
- 1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of independent India (Age 74)
- 1987 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist and Nobel laureate (Age 96)
- 2009 – Clive Granger, British economist and Nobel Prize winner (Age 74)
- 2011 – Gil Scott-Heron, American poet and musician (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) (Age 62)
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