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REIGN OF JI-AJING EMPER-OR: THE 11TH EMPEROR OF MING DYNAS-TYThe Jiajing (or Chia-ching) Emperor 16 September 1507–23 January 1567) was Emperor of China from 1521 to 1567, the 11th emperor of the Ming dynasty. Born Zhu Houcong, he was the Zhengde Emperor’s cousin. His era name means “Admirable tranquility”.

GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE IS OPENDED

On May 27, 1937, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge was opened to the public for the first time for “Pe-destrian Day,” marking the start of the weeklong “Golden Gate Bridge Fies-ta” held to celebrate its completion.

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This tornado, which was to be one of the deadliest in US history, touched down about 6 miles west of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis. From the north-west edge of Tower Grove Park, this complex combination of tornado and downburst widened to over a mile and moved due east. It collapsed or swept away portions of houses, factories, saloons, hospitals, mills, rail-road yards, churches, and caused a total of over $10,000,000 in damage.

ST.LOUIS- EAST ST. LOUIS TORNA-DO OF 1896From the northwest edge of Tower Grove Park, this complex combination of tornado and down-burst widened to

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The Third Battle of the Aisne (French: 3e Bataille de L’Aisne) was a battle of the German Spring Offensive during World War I that focused on capturing the Chemin des Dames Ridge before the American Expeditionary Force could arrive completely in France.

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EDGAR ALAN POE JOINS US ARMY

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dgar Allan had no money, no job skills, and had been shunned by John Al-lan. Edgar went to Boston and joined the U.S. Army in 1827. He was 18. He did reasonably well in the Army and attained the rank of sergeant major.

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On May 27, 1896, one of the deadliest tornadoes on record devastated the St. Louis and East St. Louis areas. The 1896 tornado season has the distinction of being the deadliest on record.

ST.LOUIS- EAST ST. LOUIS TORNADO OF 1896

May 1896 had been stormy, warm and humid . The midafternoon of May 27 was a sticky 86 degrees when thick, low clouds began swirling, then turned ominously green.

At the Weather Bureau downtown, the barometer fell sharply. Bursts of wind stirred litter and soot through the city. Fat raindrops smacked the streets. People ran for cover.

A tornado formed near Hampton Ae-nue and roared over the hospitals and asylums on the heights along Arsenal Street. No one died. That stroke of good fortune wouldn’t hold.

Quickly gathering ferocity, the black funnel rolled fat and low along the ground as it churned through Shaw’s Garden. Just north on Fol-som Avenue, where workers were building a tobacco factory, foremen screamed an alarm too late. Scaffold-ing and iron collapsed, killing 13.

They were only the first. In 20 minutes, a super tornado called the Great Cy-clone killed 255 people as it sliced like

a turbine through St. Louis and East St. Louis. Its wide path, running roughly along today’s Interstate 44 and across the Mississippi River at the Gate-way Arch, was a ruin of 7,500 build-ings destroyed or damaged, sheared trees and trains tossed from tracks.

It was St. Louis’ single deadliest day, killing 137 in the city and 118 in East St. Louis. In New Baden, Ill., another tornado killed 13.

Grinding eastward just south of down-town, the Great Cyclone smashed through fashionable Lafayette Square. It heavily damaged City Hospital, ex-ploded St. John Nepomuk Church at Lafayette Avenue and 11th Street and bore downhill into working-class Sou-lard, where the storm did its worst.

At Seventh and Rutger streets, tav-ernkeeper Frederick Mauchenheimer was playing cards when his three-story building collapsed, killing him and 16 others. That night, diggers found the body of 7-year-old Ida Howell, cradled by her dead moth-er. Six more died across the street.

Crossing the river, the cyclone sank almost 20 riverboats and shoved Chi-cago & Alton train No. 7 off the tracks on the east end of the Eads Bridge. It blasted through the crowded rail yards in East St. Louis, killing 15 of the 35 clerks at the Vandalia Line de-pot. Their boss, John P. Smith, was found wandering, “out of his head.”

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Many were extinguished by the del-uge of 2.5 inches of rain that evening.

Into the night, workers dug beneath sna-king flashes of lightning. It was the only light anybody had.

For days, mourners crowded the side-walks outside morgues. “The gong of an approaching dead wagon would cause the crowd to part,” wrote the East St. Louis Journal.

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May 1896 had been stormy, warm and humid . The midafternoon of May 27 was a sticky 86 degrees when thick, low clouds began swirling, then turned ominously green

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They were only the first. In 20 minutes, a super tornado called the Great Cy-clone killed 255 people as it sliced like

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They were only the first. In 20 minutes, a super tornado called the Great Cyclone killed 255 people as it sliced like a turbine through St. Louis and

East St. Louis. Its wide path, running roughly along today’s Interstate 44 and across the Mississippi River at the Gateway Arch, was a ruin of 7,500 build-ings destroyed or damaged, sheared trees and trains tossed from tracks.

It was St. Louis’ single deadliest day, killing 137 in the city and 118 in East St. Louis. In New Baden,

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The Battle of Chelsea Creek was the second military engagement of the Boston campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It is also known as the Battle of Noddle’s Island, Battle of Hog Island and the Battle of the Chel-sea Estuary. This battle was fought on May 27 and 28, 1775, on Chelsea Creek and on salt marshes, mudflats, and islands of Boston Harbor, north-east of the Boston peninsula. Most of these areas have since been united with the mainland by land reclama-tion and are now part of East Bos-ton, Chelsea, Winthrop, and Revere.

The British colonists met their goal of strengthening the siege of Boston by removing livestock and hay on those islands from the reach of the British regulars. The British armed schooner Diana was also destroyed and its weap-onry was appropriated by the Colonial side. This was the first naval capture of the war, and it was a significant boost to the morale of the Colonial forces. The British first took notice when they spotted the smoke from the burning hay. Vice-Admiral Graves on his flagship, HMS Preston saw smoke from the burning hay at about 2 pm, and signaled for the guard marines to land on Noddle’s island, which they did, engaging Stark’s scat-tered forces. Graves also ordered the schooner Diana, under the command of his nephew Lieutenant Thomas Graves, to sail up Chelsea Creek to support the operation and cut off the colonists’ escape. Eventually, a com-bined force of roughly 400 marines was landed, formed ranks and began to syshe burning hay at about 2 pm, and signaled for the guard marines to land on Noddle’s island, which they did, engaging Stark’s scattered forces. Graves also ordered the schooner Di 2 pm, and signaled for the guard marines to land on Noddle’s island, which they did, engaging Stark’s scattered forces. Graves also or-dered the schooner Diana, under the command of his nephew Lieu-tenant Thomas Graves, to sail up Chelsea Creek to support the opera-tion and cut off the colonists’ escape. oughly 400 marines was landed, formed ranks and began to system-atically drive Stark’s men back to the east. The colonists fled without fight-ing until they reached Crooked Creek. There they dropped into marshy ditches and fired on their pursuers from strong defensive positions. A pitched battle followed, in which the colonists “Squat[t]ed down in a Ditch on the ma[r]sh” and engaged in “a hot fiar untill the Regulars retreeted”.

BATTLE OF CLESEA CREEK

1982 NBA FINALS - LAKERS DE-FEAT 76ERS

Lakers 4, 76ers 2 GAME 1 Thu., May 27 (at Philadelphia): Lakers 124, 76ers 117 GAME 2 Sun., May 30 (at Philadelphia): 76ers 110, Lakers 94 GAME 3 Tue., June 1 (at Los Angeles): Lakers 129, 76ers 108 GAME 4 Thu., June 3 (at Los Angeles): Lakers 111, 76ers 101 GAME 5 Sun., June 6 (at Philadelphia): 76ers 135, Lakers 102 GAME 6 Tue., June 8 (at Los Angeles): Lakers 114, 76ers 104

The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Philadelphia 76ers four games to two in the best-of-seven NBA Finals series to conclude the 1981-82 NBA season. The victory gave the Lakers their second NBA championship in three seasons, and their eighth in franchise history.

The 76ers were making their seventh Fi-nals appearance (including their years as the Syracuse Nationals) and their second in three seasons, having lost to the Lak-ers in 1980. This was the fourth meeting between the two franchises in the NBA Finals. The Lakers had won the previous three meetings (1980, 1954, 1950).

Magic Johnson won NBA Finals MVP honors, becoming just the second player to win the award multiple times (Willis Reed was the first). Johnson would go on to win one more Finals MVP award in his career.

The 76ers had home-court advantage for the Finals, which were played under the 2-2-1-1-1 format. The two teams split their regular-season meetings in 1981-82, with each team winning on its home court.

The 1982 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the 1981-82 NBA season, the top level of competition in men’s profes-sional basketball in North Ameri-ca. The series saw the Los Angeles Lakers face the Philadelphia 76ers. The 1982 NBA Finals documen-

tary “Something To Prove” recaps all the action of this series. It was the last NBA video documentary to exclusively use film in all on-court action. Dick Stockton narrated the documentary, with the short-ened version narrated by Al Albert.

The Battle of Chelsea Creek was the second military engage-ment of the Boston campaign of the American Revolution-ary War. It is also known as the Battle of Noddle’s land for it.

JAMES BUTLER “WILD BILL” HICKOK BORN

GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE IS OPENED

On May 27, 1937, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge was opened to the public for the first time for “Pedestrian Day,” mark-ing the start of the weeklong “Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta” held to celebrate its completion. More than 200,000 people paid twenty-five cents each to walk the bridge. The following day at noon Presi-dent Franklin Roosevelt, from across the continent at the White House, pressed a telegraph key and the Golden Gate Bridge was officially opened for vehicu-lar use. A compilation of raw film foot-age of both day’s events is available as part of the Prelinger Archive, acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002.

Completed just six months after its neighbor, the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge is paint-ed a striking hue known as international orange, a reddish color that was chosen to compliment the bridge’s natural sur-roundings. Like the George Washing-ton, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg bridges in New York City, the Golden Gate is a suspension bridge, held up by massive steel cables strung between towers. Its central span, at 4,200 feet, remained the longest in the world until 1964 when the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, also in New York, was completed. (As of 2007, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in Japan, at 1,991 meters—about 6,532 feet—has the long-est single span of any suspension bridge.)

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