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1823 - American Eclipse won two out of three heats to beat Henry at Union Course in New York. The race was called the most famous horse race of the 19th century.1873 - Survivor won the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico race track in Baltimore, MD. It was the first ‘Run for the Black-Eyed Susans’. The race continues as the second jewel in horse racing’s Triple Crown. It comes two weeks after the Kentucky Derby and prior to the Belmont Stakes in New York.
1919 - The first transatlantic air flight was completed by the Navy-Curtiss NC-4 Flying Boat. The total trip time was 11 days and was completed by just one of three flying boats that attempted the trek.
1926 - The people of Hannibal, MO erected the first statue of literary characters. The bronze figures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were hoisted above a red granite base.
1936 - The maiden voyage of the ship RMS Queen Mary began. The huge vessel set sail from Southampton, England headed for the New York Harbor in the U.S.
1937 - Ceremonies marking the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge were held in San Francisco, CA. The bridge has been called one of the greatest engineering marvels in the world.
1941 - The German battleship Bismarck sank off the coast of France with the loss of 2,300 lives.
1942 - The Mercedes in which Nazi German official Reinhard Heydrich was riding was ambushed by two Czech patriots who had parachuted from England into Prague (Czechoslovakia). Heydrich’s death on June 4th triggered savage reprisals against the residents of the Austrian provinces of Moravia and Bohemia.
1944 - An American amphibious force landed on Biak Island -- in the southwest Pacific about 900 miles southeast of the Philippines. Japanese defenders on Biak fought desperately to retain the island, and General Walter Krueger, the U.S. Sixth Army Commander, did not declare Biak captured until August 20, 1944.
1950 - Frank Sinatra made his TV debut as he appeared on NBC’s Star-Spangled Review with show biz legend, Bob Hope.
1957 - Senator Theodore F. Green of Rhode Island became the oldest person to serve in the U.S. Congress. At the time, Sen. Green was 89 years, 7 months and 26 days young.
1957 - That’ll Be the Day, by The Crickets and featuring Buddy Holly, was released by Brunswick Records. On September 14th, the tune became the most popular record in the U.S. It was the first hit for Holly and his group after two previous releases went nowhere on Decca Records in 1956.
1961 - Singer, Johnny Cash turned TV actor. He appeared on the NBC drama, The Deputy.
1964 - The James Bond thriller From Russia with Love premiered in the U.S.
1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first prime minister, died.
1968 - George Halas retired as head coach of the Chicago Bears. Halas spent 48 years as coach of the Bears and led them to six National Football League titles.
1968 - The next time Iron Butterfly comes up in conversation, you can impress your friends with the following nugget: Iron Butterfly recorded their classic In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida on this day at Ultrasonic Studios in Hempstead, Long Island, New York. The psychedelic rock band released the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida album on June 14th. The song itself, which takes up one whole side of the LP, was released -- in edited form, as a single, for playing by top-40 radio stations -- a week later, on June 21, 1968.
1970 - A British expedition climbed the South Face of Annapurna I. The ascent by Chris Bonington’s team was a landmark in the history of mountaineering.
1974 - French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing took office, naming Jacques Chirac as the new prime minister.
1977 - The City of New York fined ‘human fly’ George H. Willig $1.10, one penny for each of the 110 stories of the World Trade Center’s south tower that he had scaled the day before.
1980 - South Korean police ended a people’s uprising as 2,000 people were killed.
1985 - Spend-A-Buck won the Jersey Derby by a neck and earned a record $2.6 million. The thoroughbred won an extra $2 million dollars for sweeping the Jersey Derby, the Garden State Stakes, the Cherry Hill Mile and the Kentucky Derby. Career earnings for the horse were $3,009,509.
1985 - The Boston Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers, 148-114, in the first game of the NBA championship series, setting a new record for total points by a team.
1988 - The U.S. Senate voted 93-5 to ratify the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles.
1993 - The Canadian House of Commons approved the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1994 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia and an emotional welcome after 20 years in exile. Solzhenitsyn was greeted with the traditional bread and salt in Vladivostok. The first action of the former dissident writer after reaching Russian soil was to salute the millions who had died in Soviet prison camps.
1995 - Cracked Rear View, by Hootie and the Blowfish, hit #1 on U.S. album charts for the first of eight, count ’em, eight, big weeks. The tracks were: Hannah Jane, Hold My Hand, Let Her Cry, Only Wanna Be with You, Running From an Angel, I’m Going Home, Drowning, Time, Look Away, Not Even the Trees and Goodbye.
1995 - Actor Christopher Reeve was thrown head first while riding his horse in Virginia. Reeve was paralyzed, unable to walk or breathe on his own. Reeve, whose chiseled good looks mirrored those of the comic book character, Superman, and who starred as the mythical character on the big screen, literally brought the role of Superman to life as he made valiant efforts to recover from his injury and fight for other victms of paralyzing injuries. (Reeve died Oct 10, 2004.)
1997 - Arie Luyendyk won the Indianapolis 500 for the second time. His first victory came in 1990.
1997 - An F5 tornado hit Jarrell Texas, and left 27 people dead. The killer twister cut a swath from Austin to Waco.
1998 - Michael Fortier, the government’s key witness in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and also ordered to pay $200,000 in fines. This for not warning anyone about the plot to bomb the building and for lying to the FBI. Fortier could have been sentenced to 17+ years, but was given less time because his testimony helped convict Timothy McVeigh and co-conspirator Terry Nichols at their trials in 1997.
1999 - The restoration of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci went on display in Milan, Italy. The restoration, in the refectory of the Milanese Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, took 22 years to complete.
1999 - Exxon and Mobil shareholders approved an $81.2-billion merger to create the world’s largest oil company.
2000 - The Declaration of Reconciliation was presented by Australia Prime Minister John Howard to help heal the history of government racism toward the native aborigines.
2001 - Indy rookie Helio Castroneves led teammate and fellow Brazilian Gil de Ferran in a 1-2 Roger Penske (owner of both cars) finish in the Indianapolis 500.
2002 - U.S. President George Bush (II) commemorated Memorial Day at Normandy American Cemetery in France. He honored the 9,387 men and women buried there.
2003 - Officials reported a heat wave in southern India (Hyderabad area) had killed at least 430 people during the previous two weeks; while in Tamil Nadu state (also in southern India) strong winds and pounding rain toppled a Ferris wheel on this day at a temple festival, killing twelve people and injuring more than twenty others.
2004 - Umberto Agnelli, chairman of the Italian industrial giant Fiat Group, died from cancer at his home in Turin, Italy. Agnelli was 69 years old.
2005 - These films opened in U.S. theatres: A League of Ordinary Gentlemen, with Wayne Webb, Pete Weber, Walter Ray Williams, Steve Miller and Chris Barnes; The Longest Yard, starring Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, James Cromwell, Cloris Leachman, Nelly, Brian Bosworth, Bill Romanowski, Michael Irvin, Bill Goldberg, Steve Austin, Kevin Nash, David Patrick Kelly, Terry Crews, William Fichtner and Nicholas Turturro; and the animated Madagascar, with the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith, David Schwimmer and Adam Del Rio.
2005 - From our Talk About Harsh Punishment Dept.: Junior Allen (65) walked out of a North Carolina prison after serving 35 years for stealing a black-and-white TV set.
2006 - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake flattened homes and hotels on Java Island in central Indonesia. Some 5,800 people were killed when the quake hit early in the morning.
2006 - Actor Paul Gleason died of mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer linked to asbestos. His film and TV appearances include The Breakfast Club, Trading Places, All My Children, Die Hard, Miami Blues, Boiling Point, Van Wilder, Hill Street Blues, Dawson’s Creek and Friends. Gleason is thought to have come in contact with asbestos as a teenager while working for his father on building sites.
2007 - Veteran Broadway actress Gretchen Wyler (Where’s Charley?, Guys and Dolls, Silk Stockings, Damn Yankees, Bye Bye Birdie) died at 75 years of age. Wyler also enjoyed a career in film (The Devil’s Brigade, Private Benjamin) and TV (Sergeant Bilko) and was a leading activist (founded a shelter for animals in upstate NY and was on the boards of several humane and wildlife organizations.
2007 - Romanian director Christian Mungiu won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or for his 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (abortion during the communist era); Michael Moore’s Sicko (America’s health system), was also featured.
2009 - Toys R Us Inc. reported that it had acquired toy retailer FAO Schwarz, which had been struggling for years.
2009 - A Russian space capsule, carrying Canadian Bob Thirsk, Russian Roman Romanenko and Belgian Frank De Winne, blasted off from Kazakhstan, Eurasia for a 2 day journey to the International Space Station.
2010 - Sex and the City 2 opened in the U.S. The romantic comedy drama stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Chris Noth.
2010 - Jerome Feldman, a former psychiatrist, was sentenced in Utica, New York to 16 years in jail for duping seriously ill people out of $400,000 with false promises of organ transplants in the Philippines.
2010 - Thousands of workers staged strikes across France to protest government plans to raise the retirement age from 60 (one of the lowest in Europe) to 62.
2011 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Tied to a Chair, with Bonnie Loren, Mario Van Peebles and Robert Gossett; and The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Fiona Shaw and Joanna Going.
2011 - Japan’s Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, used the G8 summit in France to reassure Tokyo’s most powerful allies that his country would learn lessons from its nuclear disaster and would recover fully.
2012 - U.S. singing star Lady Gaga canceled her sold-out June 3 show in Indonesia after conservative Islamists threatened violence, claiming her sexy clothes and provocative dance moves would corrupt young people.
2012 - Gay Russian activists tried to stage two demonstrations in Moscow to demand the right to hold a gay pride parade, but were blocked first by Orthodox Christian opponents and then by police, who detained some 40 people from both sides.
2013 - A U.S. report said Chinese hackers had gained access to designs of more than two dozen major U.S. weapons systems. More than two dozen major military weapons systems were compromised by the surreptitious Chinese hackers.
2013 - A fire aboard the Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas did enough damage to the ship that its cruise was canceled and the more than 2,200 passengers were flown from the Bahamas back to Baltimore where the trip began. No official explanation for the cause of the fire has been released.
2014 - A Chinese court, convened in a stadium filled with 7,000 spectators, announced guilty verdicts for 55 people on charges of terrorism, separatism and murder. The public event was a show of force in northwest China’s Xinjiang after 43 people were killed the previous week in an attack at a vegetable market in the regional capital, Urumqi.
2015 - Nebraska became the 19th U.S. state to repeal the death penalty as state lawmakers voted 30-19 to override a veto by Governor Ricketts.
2015 - The Sendai Nuclear Power Station in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan was issued a permit to restart its reactors. The Sendai Station was restarted Aug 11, 2015 -- the first to go back online under new safety standards introduced after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
2016 - POTUS Barack Obama became the first incumbent U.S. leader to visit Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bombing. Obama paid tribute to the “silent cry” of the 140,000 victims of the atomic bomb dropped 71 years ago on Hiroshima, and called on the world to abandon “the logic of fear” that encourages the stockpiling of nuclear weapons.
2016 - The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration detailed recalls by Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota, Mazda, Nissan, Subaru, Ferrari and Mitsubishi. More than 12 million vehicles in the U.S. were recalled to replace dangerous Takata air bag inflators.
2017 - Deaths on this day included Gregg Allman (age 69, liver cancer), Southern Rock singer and organist of the Allman Brothers Band -- died at his home in Savannah, GA; and Jim Bunning (age 85, stroke), Hall of Fame baseball pitcher and former U.S. Senator -- died in Fort Thomas, KY.
2017 - British Airways canceled all flights from London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports after it suffered a “major IT systems failure” that caused severe disruption for travelers on a busy U.K. holiday weekend.
2018 - South Korean 7-member boy band phenomenon BTS became the first K-Pop group to rise to the top of the U.S. album charts as "Love Yourself: Tear" debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Originally Bangtan Sonyeondan, which translates loosely in English to “bulletproof boy scouts”, the group switched to the name “Beyond the Scene,” in 2017. While their Korean moniker remained the same, the English one took on an entirely different meaning for the group around the world.
2019 - An unidentified North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson (we’re guessing Kim Kim Jong-un, because no one else is allowed to make public statements in that country) called U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton a “war monger” and “human defect” after he described its recent tests of short-range missiles as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
2019 - A tornado outbreak ravaged Ohio leaving tens of thousands without power or water. One person was killed and more than 140 injured.
2020 - POTUS Trump issued an executive order aimed at curtailing the power of social media platforms. This, after Twitter called Trump out for his phony-balony tweets about the dangers of mail-in voter ballots. Legal experts immediately raised serious doubts about whether the executive order could/would survive judicial scrutiny.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)The pandemic had killed more than 355,000 people worldwide and some 100,411 people in the United States as of this date.
2)Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet approved a new $1.1 trillion stimulus package that included significant direct spending. The package was designed to stop the coronavirus pandemic from pushing the world’s third-largest economy deeper into recession.
3)Flags were lowered to half-mast across Spain as the country began 10 days of official mourning for the victims of the coronavirus pandemic. Spain had suffered more than 236,000 diagnosed cases with 27,117 deaths.
4)The United Nations World Food Program warned that at least 14 million people could go hungry in Latin America as the pandemic raged on, shuttering people in their homes, drying up work and crippling the economy.2020 - Anger and grief over the death of George Floyd erupted for a second night a police station in Minneapolis. One person died after being shot by a store owner amid looting. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey appealed for an end to the violence and called for the public’s help to restore peace. “Please, Minneapolis, we cannot let tragedy beget more tragedy,” Frey tweeted.
2021 - Microsoft reported that hackers linked to Russia’s main intelligence agency had sneaked into and seized an email system used by the State Department’s international aid agency. This, to burrow into (and do malicious stuff) to the computer networks of human rights groups and other organizations that had been critical of strongman Vladimir Putin.
2021 - President Emmanuel Macron of France began a 2-day visit to Rwanda saying his country had “a duty to confront history and to recognize its part of the suffering it inflicted on the Rwandan people.”
2022 - Movies scheduled to open in the U.S. included: the animated The Bob’s Burgers Movie, featuring characters voiced by Stephanie Beatriz, Kristen Schaal, Gary Cole, Aziz Ansari, Kevin Kline and Zach Galifianakis; and Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly and Miles Teller (some 36 years after the original movie).
2022 - Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw acknowledged that law enforcement made the “wrong decision” by waiting to enter an Uvalde, Texas classroom as a mass shooting unfolded. “Obviously, based on the information we have, there were children in that classroom that were still at risk,” McCraw said during the high-stress and emotional news conference. “It was the wrong decision. Period.”
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Birthdays on This Day May 27
1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt
capitalist: established ferry service between Manhattan & Staten Islands; turned a NY railroad into $$$; died Jan 4, 18771818 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer
women’s rights advocate; newspaper publisher: The Lily; social reformer; led cause for more sensible dress for women: bloomer panties named after her; died Dec 30, 1894
1819 - Julia Ward Howe
abolitionist, social activist, poet, author: wrote the lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic; died Oct 17, 19101837 - Wild Bill (James Butler) Hickok
U.S. Marshall, frontiersman, army scout, gambler, legendary marksman; shot [from behind] and killed Aug 2, 1876 while playing poker holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights [known since as the ‘dead man’s hand’]1867 - Arnold Bennett
novelist: The Old Wives’ Tale, How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day; died Mar 27, 19311894 - Dashiell Hammett
author: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, The Glass Key, Red Harvest, The Dain Curse; died Jan 10, 19611907 - Rachel Carson
author: Silent Spring, The Sea Around Us; died Apr 14, 19641911 - Hubert Horatio Humphrey
38th vice president of the U.S.; died Jan 13, 19781911 - Vincent (Leonard) Price
actor: Edward Scissorhands, House of Wax, The Raven, Laura, The Three Musketeers, Twice-told Tales; recording: Thriller [w/Michael Jackson]; author: cookbooks; artist; died Oct 25, 19931912 - ‘Slammin’ Sammy Snead (Samuel Jackson Snead)
golf champ: Masters [1949, 1952, 1954; British Open [1946]; PGA [1942, 1949, 1951]; died May 23, 20021915 - Herman Wouk
writer: The Winds of War, Marjorie Morningstar; died May 17, 20191917 - Yasuhiro Nakasone
Prime Minister of Japan [1982-1987]: “Politics can’t be changed by a dog howling in the distance. Politics means getting within a sword’s reach.”; died Nov 29, 20191922 - Christopher (Frank Carandini) Lee
actor: Dracula, The Mummy, The Far Pavilions; died Jun 7, 20151923 - Henry (Alfred) Kissinger
Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1973]; U.S. Secretary of State: Nixon Administration; political consultant: NBC News1923 - Sumner Redstone
U.S. business mogul, media magnate: National Amusements theater chain, ViacomCBS; died Aug 11, 20201930 - John Barth
author: Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, Letters1935 - Ramsey Lewis
musician: piano: group: Ramsey Lewis Trio: The In Crowd, Hang on Sloopy, Wade in the Water; died Sep 12, 20221935 - Lee Ann Meriwether
Miss America [1955]; actress: Barnaby Jones, Batman1936 - Lou Gossett Jr.
Academy Award-winning actor: An Officer and a Gentleman [1982]; Emmy Award winner: Roots-Part Two [1977]; Sadat, Enemy Mine, Iron Eagle series1939 - Don Williams
country singer: I Believe in You; leader of Pozo- seco Singers; actor: Smokey and the Bandit II; died Sep 8, 20171943 - Cilla Black (Priscilla Maria Veronica White)
singer: You’re My World; died Aug 1, 20151943 - Bruce Weitz
actor: Hill Street Blues, Death of a Centerfold, The Liar’s Club, The O.J. Simpson Story, Molly and Gina1944 - Christopher J. Dodd
Democratic U.S. Senator from Connecticut [1981-2011]; his father was U.S. Senator Thomas J. Dodd1948 - Gary (Lynn) Nolan
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976/all-star: 1972], California Angels1948 - Peter Sears
musician: bass, keyboards: played with Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry, Copperhead, Jefferson Starship, Hot Tuna1949 - Terry Collins
baseball manager: Houston Astros [1994–1996]; Anaheim Angels [1997–1999]; New York Mets [2011–2017]: 2015 World Series1954 - Catherine Carr
Olympic Gold-medalist: U.S. swimmer: women’s 100-meter breaststroke, women’s 4-by-100 and 4-by-200 meter medley relays w/Melissa Belote, Deena Dearduff, Sandra Neilson [1972 Munich Olympics]1955 - Richard Schiff
actor: The West Wing, The Bodyguard, Hoffa, Ghost in the Machine, The Hudsucker Proxy, Volcano, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Pentagon Wars, Deep Impact, Crazy in Alabama, Forces of Nature
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux (Janet Susan Ballion)
singer: group: Siouxsie and the Banshees: Helter Skelter, Israel, Lord’s Prayer, Christine, Happy House1961 - Peri Gilpin
actress: Frasier, Spring Forward, Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story, The Lionhearts, Hercules1961 - Cathy Silvers
actress: Happy Days; Phil Silvers’ daughter1964 - Adam Carolla
actor: Drawn Together, Family Guy, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Farewell Bender, Frank McKlusky, C.I., Down to You, Splendor, Art House1965 - Todd Bridges
actor: Diff’rent Strokes, Fish, Home Boys, Twice Dead1966 - Sean Kinney
musician: drums: group: Alice in Chains: Man in the Box, Them Bones, Rooster, Angry Chair, No Excuses, I Stay Away, Grind, Heaven Beside You, Again1966 - Ray Sheppard
hockey [right wing]: NHL: Buffalo Sabres, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, San Jose Sharks, Florida Panthers, Carolina Hurricanes1967 - Eddie McClintock
actor: Warehouse 13, Stark Raving Mad, A.U.S.A., Crumbs, Desperate Housewives, Bones, Confessions of an American Bride, Mumford, The Sweetest Thing, Moving August, Full Frontal, Shooter [TV]1968 - Jeff Bagwell
baseball: Univ of Hartford, Houston Astros1969 - Todd Hundley
baseball [catcher, outfield]: William Rainey Harper College; NY Mets, LA Dodgers, Chicago Cubs1969 - Dondre Whitfield
actor: All My Children, Ghost Whisperer, CSI: Miami, Make It or Break It, Eureka, Between Brothers, Secret Agent Man, Girlfriends, Hidden Hills, Cold Case, Middle of Nowhere1970 - Joseph Fiennes
actor: Running With Scissors, The Great Raid, Luther, Dust, Enemy at the Gates, Shakespeare in Love, Martha, Meet Frank, Killing Me Softly1971 - Paul Bettany
actor: The Da Vinci Code, Iron Man, Wimbledon, The Reckoning, A Beautiful Mind, A Knight’s Tale, The Suicide Club1971 - Lisa Lopes
‘Left Eye’: singer: group: TLC: Creep, Red Light Special, Waterfalls, Baby-Baby-Baby, Diggin’ on You; killed in Honduras car crash Apr 25, 20021972 - Antonio Freeman
football [wide receiver]: Virgina Tech Univ; NFL: Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins1973 - Jack McBrayer
actor: 30 Rock, Phineas and Ferb, Bob’s Burgers, The Middle, Movie 43, Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, Wreck-It Ralph, A Thousand Words1974 - Denise van Outen
actress: The Big Breakfast, Chicago, Strictly Come Dancing, EastEnders1975 - André 3000 (André Lauren Benjamin)
rapper: group: Outkast: Way You Move, Hey Ya, Jazzy Bell, Whole World, Ghetto Musick, Roses, So Fresh So Clean, Land of a Million Drums1975 - Jose Cortez
football [kicker]: Oregon State Univ; NFL: NY Giants, SF 49ers, Minnesota Vikings1975 - Jadakiss (Jason Phillips) rapper: LPs: Kiss tha Game Goodbye, Kiss of Death, The Last Kiss, Top 5, Dead Or Alive
1975 - Jamie Oliver
chef: TV host: Pukka Tukka, The Naked Chef; author: The Naked Chef; food editor: British GQ magazine; columnist: Saturday Times Magazine1975 - Andre Savage
hockey [center]: NHL: Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers1979 - Marissa Tait
actress: The Rain Makers, Berkeley, The Biggest Fan, Totem, Witchouse1980 - Ben Feldman
actor: Mad Men, Drop Dead Diva, Las Vegas, The New Adventures of Old Christine, See Kate Run, Medium1990 - Chris Colfer
actor: Glee, 8, Struck by Lightning, The Cleveland Show, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta?
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Hit Music on This Day May 27
1946The Gypsy (facts) - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day (facts) - Perry Como
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