On This Day for May 27 - Founding of St. Petersburg, Vincent Price is featured, and more

Created: 2020-05-27 10:03 Updated: 2020-05-27 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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May 27

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Vincent Price

FEATURED EVENT

1703

Founding of St. Petersburg

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2000: Canadian ice hockey player Maurice (“Rocket”) Richard, who helped the Montreal Canadiens win eight Stanley Cups while becoming the first NHL player to score 500 goals, died at age 78. [ See where Maurice Richard ranks on our list of the 10 greatest hockey players of all time.]

1912: American short-story writer and novelist John Cheever, known as “the Chekhov of the suburbs,” was born. [Take our quiz about famous novels.]

1911: American politician Hubert Humphrey—who was the 38th U.S. vice president (1965–69), a presidential candidate (1968), and a liberal Senate leader (1949–65; 1971–78)—was born in Wallace, South Dakota.

1907: American biologist Rachel Carson, who was known for her writings on environmental pollution and the natural history of the sea, was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania. [ Test your knowledge of pollution.]

1819: American author and lecturer Julia Ward Howe, who was best known for Battle Hymn of the Republic, was born.

1994: Exiled from the Soviet Union since February 13, 1974, for writing The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature, returned to his Russian homeland. [Take our quiz about literary Nobelists.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1922

Christopher Lee
English actor

1923

Henry A. Kissinger
United States statesman

1975

Jamie Oliver
British chef

1794

Cornelius Vanderbilt
American industrialist and philanthropist [1794–1877]

1912

Sam Snead
American golfer