May 27

But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Psalm   59:16

MAY is:

Revise Your Work Schedule Month - Encourages the exploration of non- traditional work schedules that might better suit working individuals. Sponsor: Center for Worktime.

Social Science Books Month Read a book on politics, law, sociology, history, anthropology, psychology, or other social science. Sponsor: Book Marketing Update.

Touring Theatre Month - Praises theatre companies bringing plays to the people. Formerly sponsored by Richard Falk, who died in 1994.

Women's Health Care Month

TODAY IS:

• Modern Dance Day - Celebrated on the birthday of the founder of modern dance, Isadora Duncan. She was born in 1878 in San Francisco, California.
  
  No Pesticides Day - On the birthday of Rachel Carson, don't use any pesticides in your garden. The author of "Silent Spring' and other environmental books was born in Pennsylvania on this day in 1907.
  
  Chestertown Tea Party - In 1774, a few months after the Boston Tea Party, the residents of Chestertown, Maryland, held their own tea party by throwing tea on-board the Glees into the Chester River. Chestertown, celebrates the event on the Saturday before Memorial Day. Sponsor: Chestertown Tea Party Festival

Born on this Day

• 1794: Financier Cornelius Vanderbilt
  

• 1818: American social reformer Amelia Jenks Bloomer, who popularized the ``bloomers'' garment that bears her name, born in Homer, N.Y.
  

• 1819: Poet Julia Ward Howe, writer of  the lyrics for ``The Battle Hymn of the Republic''
  

• 1836: Financier and railroad developer Jay Gould
  

• 1837: Frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok
  

• 1878: Dancer Isadora Duncan
  

• 1888: Louis Durey, one of the lesser known members of "Les Six", was born.
  

• 1894: Detective novelist Dashiell Hammett
  

• 19??: Pete Stewart (Grammatrain)
  

• 19??: Bruce Cockburn
  

• 19??: Lee-Jane (Rhythmsaints)
  

• 1911: Vice President Hubert Humphrey
  

• 1911: Actor Vincent Price
  

• 1912: Golfer Sam Snead
  

• 1915: Novelist Herman Wouk
  

• 1922: Actor Christopher Lee
  

• 1923: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger .
  

• 1935: Actress Lee Meriwether
  

• 1935: Jazz musician Ramsey Lewis
  

• 1936: Actor Louis Gossett Junior
  

• 1939: Country singer Don Williams.
  

• 1943: Actor Bruce Weitz (Hill Street Blues)
  

• 1943: Singer Cilla Black
  

• 1945: Singer Bruce Cockburn
  

• 1957: Singer Siouxsie Sioux (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
  

• 1957: Rock musician Eddie Harsch (The Black Crowes)
  

• 1958: Rock singer-musician Neil Finn (The Finn Brothers)
  

• 1961: Actress Cathy Silvers
  

• 1965: Actor Todd Bridges
  

• 1966: Rock musician Sean Kinney (Alice Chains)
  

• 1969: Actor Dondre Whitfield
  

• 1971: Rhythm-and-blues singer Left Eye (TLC)
  

• 1974: Rapper Andre (Outkast)                 
      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 1647: The first recorded American execution of a "witch" took place in Massachusetts.
  

• 1703: Czar Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg as the new capital of Russia.
  

• 1896: 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois.
  

• 1933: Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning animated short "The Three Little Pigs" was first released.
  

• 1935: The Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act.
  

• 1936: The Cunard liner "Queen Mary" left England on its maiden voyage.
  

• 1937: The newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened to the public.
  

• 1941: Amid rising world tensions, President Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency."
  

• 1941: The British Navy sunk the German battleship "Bismarck" off France, with a loss of 2300 lives.
  

• 1964: Independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died.
  

• 1968: The U.S. nuclear submarine Scorpion disappeared in the Atlantic with 99 men aboard.
  

• 1977: New York City fined "human fly" George H. Willig $1.10 -- one penny for each of the 110 stories of the World Trade Center he'd scaled the day before.
  

• 1985: In a brief ceremony in Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997.
  

• 1987: The Reverend Jerry Falwell, responding to comments by Jim Bakker, denied hoodwinking Bakker into giving up control of the PTL ministry.
  

• 1988: The Senate voted 98-5 in favor of the U.S.-Soviet treaty to abolish intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
  

• 1989: Leaders of the Chinese student protest movement proposed that demonstrators hold one more rally, then end their occupation of Tiananmen Square, an idea that was later abandoned.
  

• 1990: Cesar Gaviria, 34, was elected president of Colombia after a campaign in which three candidates were killed. He vowed to make no deals with the cocaine cartels.
  

• 1990: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev tried to calm his nation's economic nerves with a hastily scheduled television address.
  

• 1991: Ethiopia ordered its troops to lay down their arms in the face of a rebel advance.
  

• 1991: In a commencement speech at Yale University, President Bush announced he would ask Congress to extend most-favored-nation trade benefits to China for another year. 
  

• 1990: he political opposition of Burma (Myanmar) won the country's first free, multiparty elections in three decades.
  

• 1992: The 12-nation European Community imposed trade sanctions on Serbia to stop its interference in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
  

• 1993: The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra wound up its European tour when it performed at Germany's "Bodensee Festival." Hugh Wolff led America's only full-time professional chamber orchestra in Ravel's "Tombeau de Couperin," and Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto.
  

• 1993: The New York Philharmonic gave the world premiere of Karel Husa's Violin Concerto. Glenn Dicterow soloed and Kurt Masur conducted.
  

• 1993: Five people were killed when a car bomb exploded near an art gallery in Florence, Italy. A few paintings by relatively minor artists were destroyed but masterpieces by Botticelli and Michaelangelo survived.
  

• 1993: U.S. sailor Terry Helvey was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murder in the October 1992 death of gay shipmate Allen Schindler in Sasebo, Japan.
  

• 1994: Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia to the emotional cheers of thousands after spending two decades in exile.
  

• 1995: Actor Christopher Reeve was paralyzed when thrown from his horse during a jumping event in Charlottesville, Va.
  

• 1996: Russian President Boris Yeltsin negotiated a cease-fire to the war in Chechnya in his first meeting with the rebels' leader.
  

• 1997: The Supreme Court ruled Paula Jones could pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against
  President Clinton while he is in office.
  

• 1997: Twenty-seven people were killed when a tornado struck Jarrell, Texas.
  

• 1997 In Paris, Russian President Boris Yeltsin joined 16 NATO leaders, including President Clinton, to sign a historic agreement giving Moscow a voice in NATO affairs.
  

• 1997: Arie Luyendyk won the Indianapolis 500 for the second time.
  

• 1998: Michael Fortier, the government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after apologizing for not warning anyone about the deadly plot.  
  

• 1999: In Milan, Italy, the latest restoration of "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci, an effort that took 22 years, went on display during a VIP-only showing.
  

• 1999: A U.N. tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity, holding the Yugoslav president personally responsible for the horrors in Kosovo and brutal purge of ethnic Albanians.
  

• 1999: The space shuttle Discovery blasted off on a mission to carry supplies to the new international space station.
  

• 2000: Freight cars loaded with hazardous chemicals crashed and exploded in Eunice, Louisiana, forcing the evacuation of thousands. 
  
  
  

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