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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Commercials: The Classics Vol. 8 DVD, MP4 Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, May 27, 2026

May 27: National Grape Day: -- Encourages everyone enjoy one of nature's most delicious foods. Grapes are one of the most popular fruits from around the world. National Grape Day on May 27 celebrates the juicy and flavorful varieties available for snacking, sharing, and even drinking. Archeologists say grapes have been around for 130 million years. In fact, they are one of the oldest plants on earth. Early records indicate grapes were originally cultivated 6,000 to 7,000 years ago for trading in western Asia, including Egypt, Iran, Israel and Cyprus. Interestingly, grapes were also found in tombs during the pre-Christ era. Today, there are nearly 10,000 known varieties of grapes from around the world, with about 1,300 specific varieties found in vineyards for making wine. Concord grapes are a purple grape with a sugary taste. They have large seeds and are best when used in candy, pies, jellies, and juice. Crimson Seedless is a reddish-green grape most commonly found in grocery stores. This grape is firm and has a subtle sweetness with a hint of tartness. Sultana grapes, or Thompson Seedless grapes, are possibly the oldest grape available today. This greenish/white grape is a smaller table grape with a sweet, juicy flavor. Niagara grapes, or white Concord grapes, are a light green grape that has a sweet, lemony flavor. Niagara grapes are great for making white grape juice. Flame Seedless grapes is a popular table grape and purchased often because of availability. The grape is a purple-reddish color and is a hybrid of a Thompson Seedless and the Cardinal grape. According to archeological finds, the art of winemaking goes back about 6,000 to 7,000 BCE after discovering wine production in the Georgia region. However, many archeologists believe wine was made long before this time. Interestingly, the winemaking discovery has allowed scientists to analyze the grapes discovered by archeologists to determine the evolution and histories of grapes. It is important to understand wine grapes are smaller and sweeter than grapes we buy in the grocery store. Though table grapes and wine grapes are very similar, wine grapes require specialized care when growing because of their use. Wine grapes grow all over the world. In fact, specific regions produce the best grapes for wine. However, some people are unaware the name of wine actually reflects the name of the grape. Common wine grapes include Merlot, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Riesling and Pinot Gris. The flavor of wine is depends on the region the grapes grow. Vine management during the growing season requires skill and dedication to ensure the harvest season is a successful one. Picking grapes at the exact ripeness is important to deliver a delicious wine product. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-classics-vol-8-dv8.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Jean Shepherd Radio Shows All Known To Exist DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, May 27, 2026

May 27: Old-Time Player Piano Day: -- Taking place in the United States, this day shows appreciation for the fun musical instrument, the old-time player piano, an unusual type of piano that plays by itself. Player pianos are also known as pianolas. Old-time player pianos read notes from tiny perforations on rolls of paper. The rolls are changed to allow the piano to play different songs. Suction powers the pianos as two-foot pedals are pumped by a pianist. The pianist can also use levers to affect the sound. This special holiday is observed to show appreciation for the musical instrument, also known as the pianola. A prototype for the instrument was created in 1895 by Edwin Votey. His version set the template for most player pianos that followed. In 1897, the Aeolian Company, the largest musical instrument producing firm at the time, acquired the rights to Votey's piano design. They made the decision to market it as the pianola. The early player pianos were also known as push-up players or external players. They had a separate component that could be rolled up to a piano to make it into a player piano. Player pianos were big business in the early 1900s and were widely popular for about 30 years. The instrument started to lose popularity in 1929 after the Wall Street crash. By the 1930s, there were only a few companies still making the instrument. Sadly, there aren't many player pianos that play music rolls available on the market today. There are, however, electronic players like the Yamaha Disklavier available that are capable of reproducing 'high-resolution' piano performances. Old-Time Player Piano Day is known to have been celebrated at least since 2011. The day occurs around the same time as the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest and Festival that occurs around the same time as the holiday. The festival is mainly about piano playing and attracts a lot of talented players from around the world. #OldTimePlayerPianoDay! #OldTimePlayerPianolaDay #PlayerPianolasDay #PlayerPianosDay #Pianolas #Pianos #MusicalInstruments #Music #MP3 #AudioDownload #DVD #MP3DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/complete-jean-shepherd-radio-and-lp-collection-mp3-dvds-2-dis32.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Legacy With Michael Wood World History TV Series DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1332: #BOTD: #HBD! Ibn Khaldun (Arabic: Abu Zayd 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun al-Hadrami), Muslim Tunisian Arab sociologist, historian, and scholar (d. March 17, 1406) is #born Abu Zayd 'Abd Ar-Rahman Ibn Muhammad Ibn Khaldun Al-Hadrami in Tunis, Hafsid Sultanate, Ifriqiya (today's western Libya, Tunisia, and eastern Algeria). Ibn Khaldun was a leading Arab Muslim historiographer whose work is widely considered a forerunner of the modern disciplines of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography. He is best known for his book, the Muqaddimah or Prolegomena ("Introduction"), which records an early view of universal history, which some modern thinkers view as the first work dealing with the social sciences of sociology, demography,and cultural history. The Muqaddimah also deals with Islamic theology, historiography, the philosophy of history, economics, political theory, and ecology. It has also been described as an early representative of social Darwinism, and Darwinism. The book influenced 17th-century Ottoman historians like Katip Celebi, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha and Mustafa Naima, who used its theories to analyze the growth and decline of the Ottoman Empire. 19th-century European scholars acknowledged the significance of the book and considered Ibn Khaldun to be one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages. His work as a historiographer dealt with the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches. Ibn Khaldun died in Cairo in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. He was buried at the Sufi cemetery in what became known as Old Cairo. The location of his grave had been a subject of debate; it had been believed to be located near the former gate of the cemetery near his friend, the philologist Ibn Hisham Al-Ansari. This cemetery was demolished along with many others in order to allow housing development accoding to the policiies of the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi presidential administration. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/legacy-with-michael-wood-world-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1794: #BOTD: #HBD! Cornelius Vanderbilt, also known informally as "Commodore Vanderbilt", American business magnate and philanthropist (d. January 4, 1877) is #born on Staten Island, New York. He built his wealth in railroads and shipping. Born poor and having only a mediocre education, Vanderbilt used perseverance, intelligence, and luck to work his way into leadership positions in the inland water trade and invest in the rapidly growing railroad industry. He is known for owning the New York Central Railroad. As one of the richest Americans in history and wealthiest figures overall, Vanderbilt was the patriarch of a wealthy, influential family. He provided the initial gift to found Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Contemporaries hated or feared Vanderbilt, considering him an unmannered brute; while he could be a rascal, combative and cunning, he was more a builder than a wrecker, being honorable, shrewd, and hard-working. Cornelius Vanderbilt died at his residence, No. 10 Washington Place, Manhattan, New York, after having been confined to his rooms for about eight months. The immediate cause of his death was exhaustion, brought on by long suffering from a complication of chronic disorders. At the time of his death, aged 82, Vanderbilt had an estimated worth of 105M USD million. He is buried at the Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum, Staten Island, New York. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/american-lifestyle-famous-americans-tv-series-2-dual-layer-dvd2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Old Time Radio Western MegaSet MP3 Collection DVD, Download, USB
Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1837: #BOTD: #HBD: Wild Bill Hickok, legendary redhead American Old West folk hero, frontiersman, police officer, marksman, gunfighter, soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, who earned a great deal of notoriety in his own time, much of it bolstered by several notable shootouts during the course of his life and the many outlandish and often fabricated tales he told about himself (d. August 2, 1876) is #born and raised James Butler Hickok on a farm in Homer, Illinois, (present-day Troy Grove, Illinois) into a family of English ancestry to William Alonzo Hickok, a farmer and abolitionist, and his wife, Polly Butler, at a time when lawlessness and vigilante activity were rampant because of the influence of the "Banditti of the Prairie". William Hickok was said to have used the family house, now demolished, as a station on the Underground Railroad. Hickok was a good shot from a young age, and was recognized locally as an outstanding marksman with a pistol. Drawn to this ruffian lifestyle, he headed west at age 18 as a fugitive from justice, working as a stagecoach driver and later as a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Some contemporaneous reports of his exploits are known to be fictitious, but they remain the basis of much of his fame and reputation. He fought and spied for the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was shot dead aged 39 during a poker game by a drunk unsuccessful gambler Jack McCall in the Number Ten saloon in Deadwood, in the Dakota territory (present-day South Dakota). The hand of cards which he supposedly held at the time of his death has become known as the dead man's hand: two pairs; black aces and eights. He is buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota. Hickok remains a popular figure of frontier history. Many historic sites and monuments commemorate his life, and he has been depicted numerous times in literature, film, and television. He is chiefly portrayed as a protagonist, although historical accounts of his actions are often controversial, and much of his career is known to have been exaggerated both by himself and by contemporary mythmakers. While Hickok claimed to have killed numerous named and unnamed gunmen in his lifetime, his career as a gunfighter only lasted from 1861 to 1871. According to Joseph G. Rosa, Hickok's biographer and the foremost authority on Wild Bill, Hickok killed only six or seven men in gunfights. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-old-time-radio-western-megaset-dual-layer-mp3-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Siege Of Vicksburg American Civil War DVD MP4 Download USB Drive
Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1863: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Western Theater Of The American Civil War: The Battles Of The Lower Seaboard Theater And Gulf Approach Of The American Civil War: The Siege Of Port Hudson: -- The first assault is made upon the Confederate siege works of Port Hudson in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. When th assault failed, Union General Nathaniel Banks settled into a 48-day siege, the longest in US military history up to that point. It was the final engagement in the Union campaign to recapture the Mississippi in the American Civil War. While Union General Ulysses Grant was besieging Vicksburg upriver, General Nathaniel Banks was ordered to capture the Confederate stronghold of Port Hudson, in order to go to Grant's aid. When his assault failed, Banks settled into a 48-day siege. A second attack also failed, and it was only after the fall of Vicksburg that the Confederate commander, General Franklin Gardner surrendered the port. The Union gained control of the river and navigation from the Gulf of Mexico through the Deep South and to the river's upper reaches. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-siege-of-vicksburg-american-civil-war-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Civil War: A Video Image History JPG Set + MPG DVD, Download, USB
Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1863: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Western Theater Of The American Civil War: The Battles Of The Lower Seaboard Theater And Gulf Approach Of The American Civil War: The Siege Of Port Hudson: -- The New Orleans based 1st Louisiana Native Guard (also known as the Corps d'Afrique) and the 3rd Louisiana Native Guard Infantry Regiment (later renamed The 75th United States Colored Troops), among the first all-black regiments in the Union Army, prominently participate in the first assault at Milliken's Bend in the Siege Of Port Hudson. Its members included a minority of free men of color from New Orleans; most were African American former slaves who had escaped to join the Union cause and gain freedom. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-civil-war-a-video-image-history-photo-cd-mpg-video-cdrom.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The African-American Civil War 54th Massachusetts Infantry DVD MP4 USB
Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1863: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Western Theater Of The American Civil War: The Battles Of The Lower Seaboard Theater And Gulf Approach Of The American Civil War: The Siege Of Port Hudson: -- #DOTD: #RIP: Andre Cailloux (1825 - May 27, 1863), one of the first black officers in the Union Army and one of the first to die in combat during the American Civil War, fights heroically during the unsuccessful first attack on the Confederate fortifications during the Siege Of Port Hudson, resulting in his death the following day. Accounts of his heroism were widely reported in the press, and became a rallying cry for the recruitment of African Americans into the Union Army. On May 27, 1863, Union General Nathaniel P. Banks launched a poorly coordinated attack on the well-defended, well-fortified Confederate positions at Port Hudson. As part of the attack the first day, Captain Cailloux was ordered to lead his company of 100 men of the 1st Louisiana Native Guard (also known as the Corps d'Afrique) of black soldiers in an almost suicidal assault against a high redoubt manned by two regiments of Confederate troops with heavy artillery support. Despite his company suffering heavy casualties, Cailloux, shouting encouragement to his men in French and English, led the charge of his entire regiment, a Minie ball (a type of hollow-based bullet designed for muzzleloader rifled muskets) tore through his arm, leaving it hanging useless at his side. Severely wounded, Cailloux continued to lead the charge until a Confederate artillery shell struck him, nearly tearing him in two and killing him. In the words of Rodolphe Desdunes, whose brother Aristide Desdunes served under Cailloux, "The eyes of the world were indeed on this American Spartacus. The hero of ancient Rome displayed no braver heroism than did this officer who ran forward to his death with a smile on his lips and crying, "Let us go forward, O comrades!" Six times he threw himself against the murderous batteries of Port Hudson, and in each assault he repeated his urgent call, "Let us go forward, for one more time!" Finally, falling under the mortal blow, he gave his last order to his attending officer, "Bacchus, take charge!" Cailloux's decomposing body lay on the ground for 47 days until Port Hudson finally surrendered to Banks on July 9, 1863. Few of the dead were identified, but Cailloux's body was identified by a ring he wore which was recognized by surviving members of his regiment. Though most of the Union dead were buried in the area, a site later established as Port Hudson National Cemetery and designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1974, News of Cailloux's heroism had reached New Orleans, and he received a hero's funeral in the city with a large procession and thousands of attendees along the route on July 29. Andre Cailloux's reputation as a patriot and martyr long outlived him. In an 1890 collection of interviews, Civil War veteran Colonel Douglass Wilson said, "If ever patriotic heroism deserved to be honored in stately marble or in brass that of Captain Caillioux deserves to be, and the American people will have never redeemed their gratitude to genuine patriotism until that debt is paid." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-africanamerican-civil-war-54th-massachusetts-infantry-dvd-mp4-544.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Western Tradition TV Series DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Drive
Today, May 27, 2026

May 27-28, 1871: The Unification Of Germany (German: Deutsche Einigung): The Franco-Prussian War (The Franco-German War, The War Of 1870, 70/71): The Siege Of Paris (The Siege Of Paris 1870-1871): The Paris Commune (March 18 - May 28, 1871: Bloody Week (French: Semaine Sanglante): The Fall Of The Paris Commune: -- The Fall Of The Paris Commune begins, ultimately resulting in some 20,000 communards killed and 38,000 arrested by French troops who invaded the Paris Commune and engaged its residents in street fighting that had been going on since May 21. On the morning of May 27 , the regular army soldiers of Generals Grenier, Paul de Ladmirault and Jean-Baptiste Montaudon launched an attack on the National Guard artillery on the heights of the Buttes-Chaumont. The heights were captured at the end of the afternoon by the first regiment of the French Foreign Legion. One of the last remaining strongpoints of the National Guard was the Pere Lachaise Cemetery, defended by about 200 men. At 6:00 in the evening, the army used cannon to demolish the gates and the First Regiment of naval infantry stormed the cemetery. Savage fighting followed around the tombs until nightfall, when the last Communards were taken prisoner. The captured guardsmen were taken to the wall of the cemetery and shot. Another group of prisoners, consisting of officers of the National guard, was collected at Mazas Prison and La Roquette prison. They were given brief trials before the military tribunal, sentenced to death, and then delivered to Pere Lachaise. There they were lined up in front of the same wall and executed in groups, and then buried with them in a common grave. This group include one woman, the only recorded execution of a woman by the army during the Bloody Week. The wall is now called the Communards' Wall, and is the site of annual commemorations of the Commune. On May 28, the regular army captured the remaining positions of the Commune, which offered little resistance. In the morning, the regular army captured La Roquette prison and freed the remaining 170 hostages. The army took 1,500 prisoners at the National Guard position on Rue Haxo, and 2,000 more at Derroja, near Pere Lachaise. A handful of barricades at rue Ramponneau and Avenue de Tourville held out into the middle of the afternoon, when all resistance ceased. The Paris Commune (French: Commune de Pari) was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the French National Guard had defended Paris, and working-class radicalism grew among its soldiers. Following the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870 (under French chief executive Adolphe Thiers from February 1871) and the complete defeat of the French Army by the Germans by March 1871, soldiers of the National Guard seized control of the city on March 18. They killed two French army generals and refused to accept the authority of the Third Republic, instead attempting to establish an independent government. The Commune governed Paris for two months, establishing policies that tended toward a progressive, anti-religious system of social democracy, including the separation of church and state, self-policing, the remission of rent, the abolition of child labor, and the right of employees to take over an enterprise deserted by its owner. All the Roman Catholic churches and schools were closed. Feminist, socialist, communist and anarchist currents played important roles in the Commune. However, the various Communards had little more than two months to achieve their respective goals. The national French Army suppressed the Commune at the end of May during La semaine sanglante ("The Bloody Week") beginning on 21 May 1871. The national forces killed in battle or quickly executed between 10,000 and 15,000 Communards, though one unconfirmed estimate from 1876 put the toll as high as 20,000. In its final days, the Commune executed the Archbishop of Paris, Georges Darboy, and about one hundred hostages, mostly gendarmes and priests. 43,522 Communards were taken prisoner, including 1,054 women. More than half were quickly released. Fifteen thousand were tried, 13,500 of whom were found guilty. Ninety-five were sentenced to death, 251 to forced labor, and 1,169 to deportation (mostly to New Caledonia). Thousands of other Commune members, including several of the leaders, fled abroad, mostly to England, Belgium and Switzerland. All the prisoners and exiles received pardons in 1880 and could return home, where some resumed political careers. Debates over the policies and outcome of the Commune had significant influence on the ideas of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), who described it as the first example of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Engels wrote: "Of late, the Social-Democratic philistine has once more been filled with wholesome terror at the words: Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Well and good, gentlemen, do you want to know what this dictatorship looks like? Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-western-tradition-dvd-set-all-52-shows-13-d5213.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1886: #BOTD: #HBD! Frank Moser, American artist, illustrator and film director, co-founder of the animation studio Terrytoons (d. October 1, 1964) is #born in Oketo, Kansas, where he studied art at the Art Students League and National Academy of Design. He was a cartoonist for the Des Moines Register and Leader, where he drew editorial cartoons, and a regular feature called "In the Short Pants League", before going to New York City in 1916. In 1929, he and Paul Terry established 'Moser & Terry' to create Terrytoons. Moser was Terrytoons' most prolific animator, often responsible for nearly half of footage on each cartoon. He was also the only person beside Terry and musical director Philip A. Scheib to receive the on-screen credit in the earlier Terrytoons. Between 1916 and 1937, he directed 202 films. Moser also painted landscapes and exhibited in galleries in New York City and Westchester County. He was a member of the Allied Artists of America, the American Water Color Society and the Salmagundi Club. He was one of the founding members and the first treasurer of the Hudson Valley Art Association and he was its historian until his death in Dobbs Ferry Hospital in Dobbs Ferry, New York at the age of 78. He is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/mighty-mouse-cartoons-dvd-all-65-terrytoons-2-archive-grade-d652.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1894: #BOTD: #HBD! Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist, short stories writer, screenwriter and political activist (d. January 10, 1961) is #born Samuel Dashiell Hammett near Great Mills on the "Hopewell and Aim" farm in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, to Richard Thomas Hammett and his wife Anne Bond Dashiell. His mother belonged to an old Maryland family, whose name in French was De Chiel. Among the enduring characters Dashiell Hammett created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9. Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time". Time included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. In 1990, the Crime Writers' Association picked three of his five novels for their list of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. Five years later, four out of five of his novels made The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time as selected by the Mystery Writers of America. His novels and stories also had a significant influence on films, including the genres of private eye/detective fiction, mystery thrillers, and film noir. Dashiell Hammett died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York City of lung cancer, diagnosed just two months before. In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." A veteran of both world wars, Hammett is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/old-time-radio-crime-and-detective-megaset-3-dual-layer-mp3-dv33.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27-28, 1905: The Russo-Japanese War (Russian: Russko-Yaponskaya Voyna, "The Russian-Japanese War"; Japanese: Nichiro Senso, "The Japanese-Russian War"): The Battle Of Tsushima (The Battle Of Tsushima Strait, The Naval Battle Of The Sea Of Japan) (Russian: Tsusimskoye Srazheniye, "The Battle Of Tsushima"; Japanese: Nihonkai Kaisen, "The Battle Of Tsushima"): -- In naval history's only decisive sea battle fought by modern steel battleship fleets, the first naval battle in which wireless telegraphy (radio) played a critically important role, and the last naval battle in which the ships of the line of a beaten fleet surrendered on the high seas, the final naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War is fought when the Russian Second Pacific Squadron under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, which had been the Russian Baltic Fleet until it sailed for over seven months and some 18,000 nautical miles from the Baltic Sea to engage the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet commanded by Marshal-Admiral Togo Heihachiro, begin The Battle Of Tsushima, resulting in a devastating defeat for the Imperial Russian Navy described by contemporary Sir George Clarke as "by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar". The Russians hoped to reach Vladivostok and establish naval control of the Far East in order to relieve the Imperial Russian Army in Manchuria. The Russian fleet had a large advantage in the number of battleships, but was overall older and slower than the Japanese fleet. The Russians were sighted by the Japanese in the early morning on May 27, and the battle began in the afternoon. Rozhestvensky was wounded and knocked unconscious in the initial action, and four of his battleships were sunk by sunset. At night, Japanese destroyers and torpedo boats attacked the remaining ships, and Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov surrendered in the morning of May 28. All 11 Russian battleships were lost, out of which seven were sunk and four captured. Only a few warships escaped, with one cruiser and two destroyers reaching Vladivostok, and two auxiliary cruisers as well as one transport escaping back to Madagascar. Three cruisers were interned at Manila by the United States until the war was over. Eight auxiliaries and one destroyer were disarmed and remanded at Shanghai by China. Russian casualties were high, with more than 5,000 dead and 6,000 captured. The Japanese, which had lost no heavy ships, had 117 dead. The loss of almost every heavy warship of the Baltic Fleet forced Russia to sue for peace, and the Treaty of Portsmouth was signed in September 1905. In Japan, the battle was hailed as one of the greatest naval victories in Japanese history, and Admiral Togo was revered as a national hero. His flagship Mikasa has been preserved as a museum ship in Yokosuka Harbour. Isoroku Yamamoto, a recent graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and future Grand Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Pacific War of World War II, served on the armored cruiser Nisshin when he was wounded during the battle, losing two fingers (the index and middle fingers) on his left hand, as the cruiser was hit repeatedly by the Russian battle line. Had he lost one more finger, he would have had to leave the Imperial Japanese Navy, according to their rules of physical fitness of its men. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/combat-at-sea-dvd-set-all-12-naval-warfare-tv-shows-6-di126.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1907: #BOTD: #HBD! Jesse Marcel, Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force who helped administer Operation Crossroads, the 1946 atom bomb tests at the Bikini Atoll, best known as the first military officer tasked with investigating the 1947 Roswell Incident and its associate "flying disc" debris, which continued research supports the findings that the Roswell debris he investigated was of (E)xtraterrestrial (B)iological (En)tity (USAF classifiction: "EBen") origin (d. June 24, 1986) is #born Jesse Antoine Marcel Sr. in Bayou Blue, Louisiana. Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity in July 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on warships. There were only seven nuclear bombs in existence in July 1946. The tests, called Able and Baker, both used Fat Man plutonium implosion-type nuclear weapons of the kind dropped on Nagasaki. The Able bomb was stenciled with the name "Gilda" and decorated with an Esquire magazine photograph of Rita Hayworth, star of the 1946 movie, Gilda. The Baker bomb was nicknamed "Helen of Bikini". In mid-1946, Marcel was attached to the 509th Composite Group to prepare for and participate in Operation Crossroads. On July 26, 1946, Brigadier General Roger M. Ramey authored a letter of commendation complimenting Marcel's performance during Operation Crossroads. The following month, Marcel received an additional letter of commendation from Major General W. E. Kepner for his performance in the operation. Marcel was the first military officer tasked with investigating a balloon crash near Roswell, New Mexico-an event that occurred amid the flying saucer craze of 1947, and which would subsequently become known as The Roswell incident. On June 26, media nationwide had reported civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold's story of seeing what became known as "flying saucers". Historians would later chronicle over 800 similar sightings reported after the Arnold story. On Monday, July 7, Roswell Army Air Field was contacted by Sheriff George Wilcox, who reported that a local rancher had recovered a crashed "flying disc". Marcel and Lieutenant Colonel Sheridan Cavitt met with rancher Mac Brazel and followed him back to the ranch outside Corona. With Marcel in a jeep while Brazel and Cavitt rode horses, the trio visited the debris field where they loaded debris into the vehicle. Upon his return to base, Marcel reported the recovery to base commander William H. Blanchard. Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release announcing the recovery of a 'flying disc' and naming Marcel as the responsible officer. The debris was loaded onto a plane, and Marcel accompanied it from Roswell to Fort Worth. After his arrival, Marcel participated in a press conference in Texas. There, debris that Marcel and others admitted was not in any way part of the wreckage they recovered, was identified as pieces of a weather balloon kite. Marcel was quoted as saying at that time, under extreme pressue from his superiors, "[We] spent a couple of hours Monday afternoon [July 7] looking for any more parts of the weather device, [and] we found a few more patches of tinfoil and rubber." The event at Roswell was largely forgotten until 1978. That year, the National Enquirer reprinted the original article from July 8, 1947. In February 1978, Marcel, then a retired lieutenant colonel, was interviewed by ufologist Stanton Friedman. In that interview, Marcel said he believed the Roswell debris was extraterrestrial. On December 19, 1979, Marcel was interviewed by Bob Pratt of the National Enquirer, and on February 28, 1980, the tabloid brought large-scale attention to the Marcel story. On September 20, 1980, the TV series In Search of... aired an interview where Marcel described his participation in the 1947 press conference: "They wanted some comments from me, but I wasn't at liberty to do that. So, all I could do is keep my mouth shut. And General Ramey is the one who discussed - told the newspapers, I mean the newsmen, what it was, and to forget about it. It is nothing more than a weather observation balloon. Of course, we both knew differently." Marcel's son, Jesse A. Marcel Jr., spent 35 years stating that in 1947, when he was 10 years old, his father had shown him alien debris recovered from the Roswell crash site, including "a small beam with purple-hued hieroglyphics on it". A 1994 Air Force report, produced in response to a Congressional inquiry into the Roswell Incident, continued to cover-up the facts by stating that the material recovered by Marcel was likely debris from Project Mogul, a "then-sensitive, classified project, whose purpose was to determine the state of Soviet nuclear weapons research" using high-altitude balloons. During June and July 1947, Mogul balloons had been test-launched at Alamogordo Army Air Field (now Holloman AFB) and White Sands Missile Range. In late 1947, Marcel received a promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel - a promotion that would have been impossible if his involvement in The Roswell Incident was found to have been flawed by his superiors. Marcel remained with the 509th at Walker AFB until August 16, 1948, when he was transferred to Strategic Air Command at Andrews AFB. When SAC HQ transferred to Offutt AFB in Nebraska on November 9, 1948, Marcel transferred with it. After requesting a hardship discharge to care for his elderly mother, in July 1950, Marcel returned to Houma, Louisiana. In September 1950, Marcel was released from active duty and transferred to the Air Force reserves. He received his final discharge in 1958. In his final years, Marcel was a self-employed television repairman. He died on June 23, 1986, in Houma, Louisiana, at the age of 79. He is buried at Matherne Cemetery in Houma. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-roswell-incident-the-roswell-ufo-incident-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1907: #BOTD: #HBD! Rachel Carson, American marine biologist, environmentalist, conservationists, and author whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement (d. April 14, 1964) is #born Rachel Louise Carson on a family farm near Springdale, Pennsylvania, located by the Allegheny River near Pittsburgh. Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. This sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the depths. Late in the 1950s, Carson turned her attention to conservation, especially some problems that she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was the book Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented share of the American people. Although Silent Spring was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, which led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides. It also inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom by Jimmy Carter. Rachel Carson died of a heart attack in her home in Silver Spring, Maryland, aged 56. Her body was cremated and Carson's ashes were divided for burial beside her mother at Parklawn Memorial Gardens, Rockville, Maryland, and the rest scattered along the coast of Squirrel Island, near the Sheepscot River in Maine. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/rachel-carson-silent-spring-documentary-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1911: #BOTD: #HBD! Vincent Price, American actor of radio, stage, film and television, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films, art historian, art collector, and gourmet cook (d. October 25, 1993) is born Vincent Leonard Price Jr. in St. Louis, Missouri. Vincent Price's career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, science fiction, horror and comedy. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures, and one for television. Born and raised near St. Louis, Missouri, Price also has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Price was an art collector and consultant, with a degree in art history, lecturing and writing books on the subject. Additionally, he was the founder of the eponymous Vincent Price Art Museum in California. Vincent Price died of lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles, California, aged 82. His remains were cremated and his ashes scattered off Nicholas Canyon Beach, near Point Dume in Malibu, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/son-of-sinbad-1955-dvd-dale-robertson-vincent-p1955.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1911: #BOTD: #HBD! Hubert Humphrey, American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States from 1965 to 1969, and twice served in the United States Senate representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978 (d. January 13, 1978) is #born Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. in Wallace, South Dakota. Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1968 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Richard Nixon. Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota and helped run his father's pharmacy before returning to academia. He earned a master's degree from Louisiana State University and worked for the Works Progress Administration, the Minnesota war service program, and the War Manpower Commission. In 1943, he became a professor of political science at Macalester College and ran a failed campaign for mayor of Minneapolis. He helped found the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) in 1944. In 1945, he won election as mayor of Minneapolis, serving until 1948 and co-founding the liberal anti-communist group Americans for Democratic Action in 1947. In 1948, he was elected to the U. S. Senate and successfully advocated for the inclusion of a proposal to end racial segregation in the 1948 Democratic National Convention's party platform. Humphrey served three terms in the Senate, from 1949 to 1964, and was the Democratic Majority Whip from 1961 to 1964. During his tenure, he was the lead author of the Civil Rights Act Of 1964, introduced the first initiative to create the Peace Corps, sponsored the clause of the McCarran Act that threatened concentration camps for "subversives", proposed making Communist Party membership a felony, and chaired the Select Committee on Disarmament. He unsuccessfully sought his party's presidential nomination in 1952 and 1960. After Lyndon B. Johnson acceded to the presidency, he chose Humphrey as his running mate, and the Democratic ticket was elected in the landslide 1964 election. In March 1968 Johnson made his surprise announcement that he would not seek reelection, and Humphrey launched his campaign for the presidency. Loyal to the Johnson administration's policies on the Vietnam War, he saw opposition from many within his own party and avoided the primaries to focus on winning the delegates of non-primary states at the Democratic Convention. His delegate strategy succeeded in clinching the nomination, and he chose Senator Edmund Muskie as his running mate. In the general election, he nearly matched Nixon's tally in the popular vote but lost the electoral vote by a wide margin. After the defeat, he returned to the Senate until his death in 1978. Humphrey was a mainstay of liberal Democratic politics, championed civil rights, and was considered by political friends and foes alike to be a truly decent man. Hubert Humphrey died of bladder cancer at his home in Waverly, Minnesota at the age of 66. He is buried in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-seasons-change-dvd-plus-chiefs-1968-police-convention-1968.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1919: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Transcontinental Flight: The History Of Transatlantic Flight: The Transatlantic Flight Of Albert Cushing Read: -- An NC-4 aircraft, a Navy Curtiss flying boat designed and manufactured by Glenn Curtiss and his team, completed the first transatlantic flight as the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, starting in New York State and making the crossing as far as Lisbon, Portugal, in 19 days. Thus, the NC-4 become the first aircraft of any kind to fly across the Atlantic Ocean - or any of the other oceans. By flying from Massachusetts and Halifax to Lisbon, the NC-4 also flew from mainland-to-mainland of North America and Europe. (Note: the seaplanes were hauled ashore for maintenance work on their engines.). The aircraft was designed by Glenn Curtiss and his team, and manufactured by Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, with the hull built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Corporation in Bristol, Rhode Island. The enterprise began when three aircraft left from Naval Air Station Rockaway, with intermediate stops at the Chatham Naval Air Station, Massachusetts, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, before flying on to Trepassey, Newfoundland, on 15 May. Eight U.S. Navy warships were stationed along the northern East Coast of the United States and Atlantic Canada to help the Curtiss NCs in navigation and to rescue their crewmen in case of any emergency. The crewmen of the NC-4 were Albert Cushing Read, the commander and navigator; Walter Hinton and Elmer Fowler Stone (Coast Guard Aviator #1), the two pilots; James L. Breese and Eugene Rhodes, the two flight engineers; and Herbert C. Rodd, the radio operator. Earlier, E.H. Howard had been chosen to go as one of the flight engineers, but on 2 May, Howard lost a hand in misjudging his distance from a whirling propeller. Consequently, he was replaced by Rhodes in the crew. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/frontiers-of-flight-aviation-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-download-us4.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! Christopher Lee, English character actor, singer, and author (d. June 7, 2015) is #born Christopher Frank Carandini Lee in Belgravia, London, the son of Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee (1879-1941) of the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps, and his wife, Countess Estelle Marie (nee Carandini di Sarzano; 1889-1981).Lee's father fought in the Boer War and First World War, and his mother was an Edwardian beauty who was painted by Sir John Lavery, Oswald Birley, and Olive Snell, and sculpted by Clare Sheridan. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012-2014), and Count Dooku in the second and third films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002 and 2005). Christopher Lee died of respiratory problems and heart failure at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London shortly after celebrating his 93rd birthday. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were scattered in Surrey Hills, England. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/in-search-of-dracula-1975-documentary-starring-christopher1975.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1923: #BOTD: Henry Kissinger, German-Jewish American political scientist, politician, diplomat and geopolitical consultant, Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, 56th United States Secretary Of State and 8th National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Nobel Prize laureate (d. November 29, 2023) is #born Heinz Alfred Kissinger, in Furth, Bavaria, Germany. For his actions negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam, Henry Alfred Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances, with two members of the committee resigning in protest. Kissinger later sought, unsuccessfully, to return the prize after the ceasefire failed. A practitioner of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a prominent role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this period, he pioneered the policy of detente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated the opening of relations with the People's Republic Of China, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, ending American involvement in the Vietnam War. Kissinger has also been associated with such controversial policies as U.S. involvement in a military coup in Chile and U.S. support for Pakistan during the Bangladesh War despite a genocide. After leaving government, he formed Kissinger Associates, an international geopolitical consulting firm. Kissinger has been a prolific author of books on diplomatic history and international relations with over one dozen books authored. Some journalists, activists, and human rights lawyers have condemned Kissinger as a war criminal. He remains a controversial figure in recent American history. However, in a 2014 survey by ForeignPolicy.com, many scholars and foreign policy experts ranked Henry Kissinger as the most effective U.S. Secretary Of State since 1965. Henry Kissinger died of heart failure at his home in Kent, Connecticut at the age of 100. At the time of his death, he was last living former U.S. Cabinet member who served in the Richard Nixon administration.He was survived by his wife, Nancy Maginnes Kissinger; two children, David and Elizabeth; and five grandchildren. His death was announced by Kissinger Associates, his consulting firm. Kissinger Associates announced that the funeral would be private; he is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/world-war-ii-revisited-an-analysis-by-henry-kissinger-dvd.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1935: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Presidency Of Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Fireside Chats: The Great Depression: The Great Depression In The United States: The New Deal: The Second New Deal (1935-1936): The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA): A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States ("The Sick Chicken Case"): -- The Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS), in a a unanimous decision, declares significant parts of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), a main component of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, to be unconstitutional. The ruling invalidated regulations of the poultry industry according to the nondelegation doctrine and as an invalid use of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause. Also encompassed in the decision were NIRA provisions regarding maximum work hours and a right of unions to organize. The ruling was one of a series which overturned elements of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal legislation between January 1935 and January 1936, until the Court's intolerance of economic regulations shifted with West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, a SCOTUS decision upholding the constitutionality of state minimum wage legislation, a decision which ended the Supreme Court's tendency to invalidate legislation aimed at regulating business. The regulations at issue in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States included price and wage fixing, as well as requirements regarding the sale of whole chickens, including unhealthy ones. The government claimed the Schechter brothers sold sick poultry, which has led to the case becoming known as "the sick chicken case". The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) allowed local codes for trade to be written by private trade and industrial groups. The President could choose to give some codes the force of law. The Supreme Court's opposition to an active federal interference in the local economy caused Roosevelt to attempt to pack the Court with judges who were in favor of the New Deal. There were originally 60 charges against Schechter Poultry, which were reduced to 18 charges plus charges of conspiracy by the time the case was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. Among the 18 charges against Schechter Poultry were "the sale to a butcher of an unfit chicken" and the sale of two uninspected chickens. Ten charges were for violating codes requiring "straight killing". Straight killing prohibited customers from selecting the chickens they wanted; instead a customer had to place his hand in the coop and select the first chicken that came to hand. There was laughter during oral arguments when Justice George Sutherland asked, "Well suppose however that all the chickens have gone over to one end of the coop?" The Schechter brothers were Jewish (the surname Schechter means "slaughter" in Yiddish, and specifically refers to a ritual slaughterer. According to the trial record, at least some of their customers preferred to select individual chickens, believing that this made it easier to have their rabbi certify the chicken as kosher, though this may not have been a universal belief. The Supreme Court decision did not address any issue of religious liberty, however. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/grde7padosem.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1935: #BOTD: #HBD! Mal Evans, British road manager and record producer, English road manager, personal assistant and musician employed by the Beatles from 1963 until their break-up in 1970 (d. January 4, 1976) is #born Malcolm Frederick Evans in Liverpool, England. In the early 1960s Evans was employed as a telephone engineer, and he also worked part-time as a bouncer at the Cavern Club when The Beatles performed there. Their manager, Brian Epstein, later hired Evans as the group's assistant roadie, in tandem with Neil Aspinall. Over time, Evans became a constant companion to the group, being present on all of their tours, and after the Beatles stopped touring in 1966, at nearly all of their recording sessions. As a constant presence, the Beatles occasionally used Evans as an extra musician; he has (often uncredited) contributions on most Beatles albums from Rubber Soul (1965) onwards. On Rubber Soul, Mal Evans plays Hammond organ on "You Won't See Me". On Revolver, he played bass drum and sang background vocals on "Yellow Submarine". On Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Mal Evans is heard on harmonica in "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" and the counting, harmonica, alarm clock and the iconic final piano E chord of "A Day In The Life", the longest note ever played on a popular recording, providing the climax of the entire album. On Magical Mystery Tour, he provided percussion on the title song and on "Strawberry Fields Forever". On The White Album, he sang and performed handclaps on "Dear Prudence", handclaps on "Birthday" and trumpet on "Helter Skelter". On Abbey Road, he played played the anvil in "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". During the final years of the group, and continuing after their break-up in 1970, Evans worked as a record producer and continued to work with the individual Beatles on their solo projects. As a producer, his biggest hit was with Badfinger's top 10 hit "No Matter What". Evans also discovered the group Splinter and brought them to the Apple label, although they would subsequently move to George Harrison's Dark Horse Records. Evans' other production credits include Jackie Lomax's 1969 single "New Day" (on Apple) and some of the tracks on Keith Moon's only solo album Two Sides of the Moon (1975). Evans separated from his wife in 1973 and moved to Los Angeles where Lennon had moved to live with May Pang after his own separation from Yoko Ono. Evans performed chimes, handclaps, and backing vocals on John Lennon's first post-Beatles single, "Instant Karma!". Evans is credited on Harrison's All Things Must Pass and the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album as providing "tea and sympathy". Evans cowrote "You and Me (Babe)" with Harrison. The track appeared on Starr's 1973 solo album Ringo. He also cowrote the Splinter song "Lonely Man", the musical centrepiece of Little Malcolm, an Apple feature film produced by Harrison. A rare interview appearance by Evans was included in the 1975 ABC television special David Frost Salutes the Beatles, where he explained that he appeared to Paul McCartney in a dream saying "let it be", inspiring him to write the song by the same name and the title of the last album they released. Evans was asked to produce the group Natural Gas, and was working on a book of memoirs called Living the Beatles' Legend which he was due to deliver to his publishers, Grosset & Dunlap, on January 12, 1976. Evans was depressed about the separation from his wife (who had asked for a divorce before Christmas) even though he was then living with his new girlfriend, Fran Hughes, in a rented motel apartment at 8122 West 4th Street in Los Angeles. On January 4, 1976, Evans was so despondent that Hughes phoned John Hoernie, Evans' co-writer for his biography, and asked him to visit them. Hoernie saw Evans "really doped-up and groggy" but Evans told Hoernie to make sure he finished Living the Beatles' Legend. Hoernie helped Evans up to an upstairs bedroom, but during an incoherent conversation, Evans picked up an air rifle. Hoernie struggled with Evans, but Evans, being much stronger, held onto the weapon. Hughes then phoned the police and told them that Evans was confused, had a rifle, and was on Valium. Four police officers arrived and three of them, David D. Krempa, Robert E. Brannon and Lieutenant Charles Higbie, went up to the bedroom. They later reported that as soon as Evans saw the three police officers he pointed the rifle at them. The officers repeatedly told Evans to put down the weapon but Evans refused. The police fired six shots, four hitting Evans and killing him. Evans previously had been awarded the badge of "Honorary Sheriff of Los Angeles County", but in the Los Angeles Times he was referred to as a "jobless former road manager for the Beatles". Evans' biographer Kenneth Womack argued that the death was a suicide by cop, as Evans had written a will the night before. Evans was cremated on January 7, 1976, in Los Angeles, and his ashes were spread by unspecified family members at South West Middlesex Crematorium (aka Hanworth Crematorium) in Hanworth, Greater London, England. None of the former Beatles attended his funeral, but Harry Nilsson, George Martin, Neil Aspinall and other friends did. George Harrison arranged for Evans' family to receive 5K PS, as Evans had not maintained his life insurance premiums, and was not entitled to a pension. A decade after his death, his collection of diaries, notebooks and other handwritten documents was discovered, many of which provided key insights into Beatles recording sessions and internal band dynamics, though the disposition of these writings has been a source of some legal controversy in the intervening decades. #MalEvans. #RoadManagers #Roadies #RecordProducers #TheBeatles #Beatles #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/alternative-sgt-pepper39s-lonely-hearts-club-band-mp3-cd-download-393.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1937: Grand Openings: Bridge Openings: -- 200,000 people in San Francisco celebrate the grand opening of the Golden Gate Bridge by strolling across it. Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began in San Francisco Bay on January 5, 1933; it would be completed on April 19, 1937. It is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6_km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean, after which the bridge is named. The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, California, the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. It also carries pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and is designated as part of U.S. Bicycle Route 95. Being declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco and California. It was initially designed by engineer Joseph Strauss in 1917. The Frommer's travel guide describes the Golden Gate Bridge as "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world." At the time of its opening in 1937, it was both the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world, with a main span of 4,200 feet (1,280 m) and a total height of 746 feet (227 m). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/world39s-fair-and-exposition-films-d39.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1940: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The German Invasion Of Western Europe (World War II) (Sieg Im Westen [German: "Victory In The West"}) (The Manstein Plan, Fall Gelb [German: "Case Yellow", Unternehmen Sichelschnitt, "Operation Sickle Cut"): The Battle Of France (The Western Campaign [German: Westfeldzug], The French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug; French: Campagne De France], The Fall Of France): The Battle Of Dunkirk (French: Bataille De Dunkerque): The Le Paradis Massacre: -- #DOTD: #RIP: Ninety-nine soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops of the 14th Company, SS Division Totenkopf, under the command of Hauptsturmfuehrer Fritz Knoechlein; two survive. Similar massacres occured at the same general time and place; Private Bert Evans, one of the few survivors of massacre of over 80 soldiers from his Royal Warwickshire Regiment who were under the same orders as the Royal Norfolk Regiment, i.e. to slow down the German advance during the Battle Of France so as to allow a British evacuation of Dunkirk, gives an exclusive account of the atrocity in the 1990 Time Watch documentary "Dunkirk 1940: The Great Escape"; he himself was shot and left for dead. It took place at a time when the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was attempting to retreat through the Pas-de-Calais region during the Battle of Dunkirk. Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Norfolk Regiment, had become isolated from their regiment. They occupied and defended a farmhouse against an attack by Waffen-SS forces in the village of Le Paradis. After running out of ammunition, the defenders surrendered to the German troops. The Germans led them across the road to a wall where they were executed by machine gun fire. Ninety-seven British troops died. Two survived, with injuries, and hid until they were captured by German forces several days later. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/dunkirk-1940-the-great-escape1940.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1941: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Battle Of The Atlantic: -- Operation Rheinubung (German: "Exercise Rhine"): The Last Battle Of The German Battleship Bismarck (The Last battle Of Bismarck, The Sinking Of The Bismarck): -- The German pocket battleshp battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men. During the Battle Of The Denmark Strait two days prior, the iconic battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince Of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the ensuing battle Hood was destroyed by the combined fire of Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, who then damaged Prince Of Wales and forced her retreat. Bismarck suffered sufficient damage from three hits to force an end to the raiding mission. The destruction of Hood spurred a relentless pursuit by the Royal Navy involving dozens of warships. Two days later, heading for occupied France to effect repairs, Bismarck was attacked by 16 obsolescent Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal; one scored a hit that rendered the battleship's steering gear inoperable. In her final battle the following morning, the already-crippled Bismarck was severely damaged during a sustained engagement with two British battleships and two heavy cruisers, was scuttled by her crew, and sank with heavy loss of life. Most experts agree that the battle damage would have caused her to sink eventually. The wreck was located in June 1989 by Robert Ballard, and has since been further surveyed by several other expeditions. Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was laid down at the Blohm and Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched in February 1939. Work was completed in August 1940, when she was commissioned into the German fleet. Bismarck and her sister ship Tirpitz were the largest battleships ever built by Germany, and two of the largest built by any European power. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/search-for-battleship-bismarck-robert-ballard-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

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May 27, 1942: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Assassination Of Reinhard Heydrich (Operation Anthropoid): -- German SS officer and politician Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later. He was ambushed by a team of Czech and Slovak agents who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill the Reich-Protector; the team was trained by the British Special Operations Executive. On December 28, 1941, Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate SS Obergruppenfuehrer and General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich, commenced. Heydrich was head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office, RSHA), the combined security services of Nazi Germany, and acting Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Operation Anthropoid was carried out in Prague, Czechoslovakia on 27 May 1942 after having been prepared by the British Special Operations Executive with the approval of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile. Wounded in the attack, Heydrich died of his injuries on 4 June 1942. His death led to a wave of merciless reprisals by German SS troops, including the destruction of the Czechoslovakian villages of Lidice and Lezaky and the mass execution or imprisonment of civilians in those and other villages. Anthropoid was the only successful assassination of a senior Nazi leader during World War II. Heydrich was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and an important figure in the rise of Adolf Hitler; as a Nazi potentate, he was given overall charge of the so-called Final Solution (Holocaust) of the Jews in Europe. Despite the risks, the Czechoslovaks decided to undertake the operation to help confer legitimacy on the Edvard Benes government-in-exile in London, as well as for retribution against Heydrich's harsh rule. Nazi intelligence falsely linked the assassins to the villages of Lidice and Lezaky. The Nazis in Czechoslovakia killed over 1,800 people in the Czech villages of Lidice and Lezaky. Both villages were razed and completely leveled until not a trace remained; all men and boys over the age of 16 were shot, and all but a handful of the women and children were deported and killed in Nazi concentration camps. The women of Lidice were deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp where most died. Ninety Lidice young children were sent to the concentration camp at Gneisenau, with some later taken to Nazi orphanages if they were German looking. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/ss-19231945-dvd-schutzstaffel-history-doc19231945.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1942: Awards And Decorations: Awards And Decorations Of The United States Armed Forces: The Navy Cross: -- Doris "Dorie" Miller (October 12, 1919 - November 24, 1943), African American cook third class who was killed in action during World War II, becomes the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the highest decoration for valor in combat after the Medal Of Honor. Miller served aboard the battleship West Virginia, which was sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. During the attack, he helped several sailors who were wounded, and while manning an anti-aircraft machine gun for which he had no training, he shot down several Japanese planes. Miller's actions earned him the medal, and the resulting publicity for Miller in the black press made him an iconic emblem of the fight for civil rights for black Americans. In November 1943, Miller was killed while serving aboard the escort carrier Liscome Bay when it was sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Battle of Makin in the Gilbert Islands. The destroyer escort/Knox-class frigate USS Miller (reclassified as a frigate in June 1975), in service from 1973 to 1991, was named after him. On January 19, 2020, the Navy announced that a Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear powered aircraft carrier, CVN-81, would be named after Miller. The ship is scheduled to be laid down in 2026 and launched in 2029. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/remember-pearl-harbor-50th-anniversary-special-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1943: #BOTD: #HBD! Cilla Black, English singer, television presenter, actress, and author (d. August 1, 2015) is #born in the Vauxhall district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE, better known as Cilla Black, championed by her friends, the Beatles, began her career as a singer in 1963. Her singles "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "You're My World" both reached number one in the UK in 1964. She had 11 top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart between then and 1971, and an additional eight hits that made the top 40. In May 2010, new research published by BBC Radio 2 showed that her version of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" was the UK's biggest-selling single by a female artist in the 1960s. "You're My World" was also a modest hit in the U.S., peaking at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Along with a successful recording career in the 1960s and early 1970s, Black hosted her own BBC variety show, Cilla (1968-1976). After a brief time as a comedy actress, she became a prominent television presenter in the 1980s and 1990s, hosting hit entertainment shows such as Blind Date (1985-2003), Surprise Surprise (1984-2001) and The Moment of Truth (1998-2001). In 2013, Black celebrated 50 years in show business. ITV honoured this milestone with a one-off entertainment special which aired on 16 October 2013, The One & Only Cilla Black, featuring Black herself and hosted by Paul O'Grady. "Anyone Who Had a Heart" was written by Burt Bacharach (music) and Hal David (lyrics) for Dionne Warwick in 1963. In January 1964, Warwick's original recording hit the Top Ten in the United States, Canada, Spain, Netherlands, South Africa, Belgium and Australia. In the United Kingdom, the Republic Of Ireland and New Zealand, Warwick's recording lost out to a cover version by Cilla Black. Black's version was a UK number-one hit for three weeks in February/March 1964 and was also the fourth best-selling single of 1964 in the UK, with sales of around 950,000 copies. Cilla Black died at the age of 72, after a fall in her villa in Estepona. The day after her funeral, the compilation album The Very Best of Cilla Black went to number one on the UK Albums Chart and the New Zealand Albums Chart; it was her first number one album. She is buried at Allerton Cemetery, Allerton, Liverpool, England. In 2017, a statue of Black commissioned by her sons was unveiled outside the Cavern Club's original entrance. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/british-rock-the-first-wave-dvd.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1957: #BOTD: #HBD! Siouxsie Sioux, English singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and beauty, best known as the founder and lead singer of the punk rock band Siouxsie And The Banshees, one of rock music's most influential British singers, is #born Susan Janet Ballion at Guy's Hospital in Southwark, Central London, England. Siouxsie And The Banshees released 11 studio albums, and had several UK Top 20 singles including "Hong Kong Garden", "Happy House" and "Peek-a-Boo", plus a US Top 25 single in the Billboard Hot 100, with "Kiss Them for Me". Siouxsie also formed a second group, The Creatures (1981-2005). With The Creatures she recorded four studio albums, and singles including "Right Now". After disbanding The Creatures in the mid-2000s, she has continued as a solo artist, using just the name Siouxsie, and released the album Mantaray to critical acclaim in 2007. Her songs have been covered by Jeff Buckley ("Killing Time"), Tricky ("Tattoo") and LCD Soundsystem ("Slowdive") and sampled by Massive Attack ("Metal Postcard") and the Weeknd ("Happy House"). In 2011, she was awarded for Outstanding Contribution to Music at the Q Awards and in 2012, she received the Inspiration Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. In 2023, Siouxsie announced her return to the stage with European, US and UK dates from May 2023. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html

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Today, May 27, 2026

May 27, 1958: Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Anti-Black Racism In The United States: School Segregation: School Segregation In The United States: The Little Rock Crisis: The Little Rock Nine: -- African American student Ernest Green, one of "The Little Rock Nine", succeeds in graduating from Little Rock's Central High School despite epic opposition, along with six hundred white classmates. On September 4, 1957, Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, called out the National Guard to prevent him and other African American students known as the Little Rock Nine (Melba Pattillo Beals, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Thelma Mothershed, Terrence Roberts and Jefferson Thomas) from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School. The U.S. Supreme Court had issued its historic and unanimous Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ruling on May 17, 1954, declaring that according to the 14th Amendment, all laws that established segregated schools were unconstitutional, and it called for the desegregation of all schools throughout the nation. Governor Faubus defied this decision by preventing the Little Rock Nine from enrolling in Central High School three years after the SCOTUS ruling. The students did successfully attend Central High School, however, due to the military intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who on September 24,1957 ordered the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army to Little Rock (without its black soldiers, who rejoined the division a month later) to enforce the SCOTUS ruling and his federalization of the entire 10,000-member Arkansas National Guard to take it out of the hands of Faubus. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/school-segregation-little-rock-amp-boston-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

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Today, May 27, 2026
May 27: Asher Day: -- It's the time of the year when all Ashers can feel super proud of their sexy name. Yes, not only does the name have a nice ring to it, but it also has a special meaning and unique origins. If you are an Asher or know an Asher, find out all about the name and celebrate it with great fervor. The mission of the day should be to honor your existence and sleep feeling happy. What are you waiting for? Call up your friends and get ready to celebrate! Asher may appear to be a trendy and modern name, but it has been around for centuries. Asher was the name of one of Jacob's twelve sons in the Bible, making it one of the most popular Christian names. Jacob is said to have described Asher as a "puppy in a world of cats," while Moses blessed him with sons. Moreover, Asher also has Hebrew origins since it is derived from the Hebrew word 'osher,' which means 'happiness.' If you believe the meaning of a name transcends into one's personality, you may be right! With Hebrew origins, it is no wonder the name is popular as a Jewish surname. Apart from the religious perspective, the name is used for an ash maker in Germany and is also assumed to be a form of the Old English surname 'AEscer.' The meaning of the word literally translates into someone who lived by an ash tree. Based on the data from the Social Security Administration, Asher has remained a popular name throughout the years. In fact, it was always in the top 50 list. This has been the case since the name became famous in 1983. In that year, it was in the top 1,000 names that people opted for in the U.S., and by 2014, Asher was in the top 100 names. In 2020, the name hit its peak popularity as it became the 32 most wanted name in the U.S. https://store.earthstation1.com/young-joe-the-forgotten-kennedy-dvd-tv-movie.html

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Today, May 27, 2026
May 27: National Aaron Day: -- A day dedicated to honoring all of the Aarons and their great contributions to the world. Aaron is a common name that has been in use for some time now. The popularity of the name peaked around the mid-1990s. Aaron is a masculine name, with only eight baby girls named Aaron in the year 2020. Compared to that, there were 5,039 baby boys named Aaron in the year 2020. The name is very old and it has been consistently popular since ancient times. Let us celebrate this day in the name of all the Aaron in the world. There is always an Aaron in the corner. It may be a friend, a colleague, an acquaintance, a biblical figure, or even a Pokemon. The name Aaron means 'mountain of strength.' The name also means teaching, singing, or being used to refer to mountaineers. There will always be an Aaron on our list of friends and family. It has been one of the most common names in the United States since the beginning of the country. The name itself is very old and has roots in Hebrew. But the popularity of the name is declining today, with more and more parents opting to give a unique name to their newborn baby. As we mentioned before, the name Aaron originates from Hebrew. Aaron is a variant of the name Aaron. Aaron was also the name of the brother of Moses in the Old Testament. It is a name associated with the high priests of Judaism. Aaron was the priest who helped the Israelites escape slavery from Egypt. The multiple meanings of the name Aaron are an added feature of the name which helped it gain popularity. The popularity of the name rapidly declined during the 1950s. However, it recovered from there to become one of the top 100 most popular names in the U.S. The name was most popular in 1978. The name Aaron is present in most Abrahamic religious books. It was also popular in ancient Egypt and Greece. https://store.earthstation1.com/aaron-copland-a-self-portrait-dvd.html

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Today, May 27, 2026
May 27: National Jordan Day: -- A day dedicated to the name Jordan and everyone who bears it. These days, Jordan is a popular unisex name, with 400 baby girls named it annually, and it has Hebrew roots. On National Jordan Day, let's celebrate everything great about Jordans everywhere. Join us in honoring people, the nation, and the river that share a name. Despite being one of the most common names since the 19th century, Jordan is becoming less popular with each passing year. It has been around for generations and can be traced back to the Jordan River flowing through Israel. The name reached its peak at the end of the 1900s, but there are still plenty of Jordans across the U.S. In addition, Jordyn, Jordin, Jorden, and Jordon are a few of the name's spelling variations. As we mentioned before, Jordan likely originated from the Hebrew language. It translates to 'descend' or "to flow." The Jordan River is the stuff of legends. According to the Bible, John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ in its clear waters. For decades, it was a fairly common name in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. The river and the country with the same name made it even easier for the name to spread. A unisex name, Jordan was one of the top 50 most used names in the U.S., and only in 2003 did it drop out of this list. The decline did not stop there. In 2007, it lost its position in the top 100. https://store.earthstation1.com/jerash-pompeii-of-the-east-grecoroman-archaeology-dvd-mp4-downloa4.html

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Today, May 27, 2026
May 27: National Grape Popsicle Day: -- Celebrates grape Popsicles as well as the discovery of the Popsicle itself. People all around the U.S. celebrate the day by making homemade grape Popsicles. While the day is dedicated to grape Popsicles, you can make them in any flavor, like lemon, strawberry, watermelon, orange, cherry, and more. Invented by accident in 1905 in California, Popsicles are one of the most popular frozen treats in the U.S. People celebrate this day by sharing grape Popsicles and other varieties of Popsicles. National Grape Popsicle Day is about celebrating yummy grape Popsicles. From homemade Popsicles to store-bought ones or even ones bought from the ice cream man himself - everything is about grape Popsicles today! Popsicles are a favorite treat for kids and adults of all ages. This frozen refreshing treat is the sweetest way to bring down the heat on a hot summer day. Humans have enjoyed frozen desserts for millennia. The ancient Romans sent their slaves to the mountains to recover ice blocks, which would be crushed and served with fruits, syrups, and spices. In U.S. history, Thomas Jefferson used to entertain his guests with iced sorbets when they visited his plantation, Monticello, in Virginia. In 1905, 11-year-old Frank Epperson was on his porch at his San Francisco home making soda by mixing water with a white powdered flavor. He went inside but forgot to take the soda, leaving it outside with the stirring stick still in it. During the night, the temperature dropped and, the following morning, Frank found his drink frozen to the stick. In 1922, a grown-up Frank introduced his treat at a fireman's ball and it received great praise. And by 1923, he was selling his treat-on-a-stick in an amusement park in Alameda, California. Epperson called his frozen confectionery the 'Epsicle' ice pop. However, his kids called it 'Pop's 'sicle.' He found the name catchy and finally patented it in 1924 in order to share his 'Popsicle' with the whole world! ========= May 27: National Cellophane Tape Day: -- Commemorates the invention of one of the most practical things ever. Cellophane tape is used for something that is very important for the world of today - to bring things together. Today acknowledge the huge role that cellophane tape has played in our lives. Perhaps the most popular among stationery items, its absence would surely have made our lives a lot harder. It is thanks to cellophane tape that we can wrap gifts, do our crafts for class assignments and projects, and so forth. Something this useful deserves its own day and this is why we have National Cellophane Tape Day. The invention of cellophane tape has been credited to Richard Gurley Drew. He began his career in 1920 at the 3M company based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Here, Drew developed masking tape for automobiles in 1925. However, it was in 1929 that he got the idea of using the then-recently-invented cellophane to make tape. Cellophane is a moisture-proof substance that was used for wrapping grocery items and baked goods. Drew was looking to create a tape made of cellophane that would seal packaging and at the same time blend in without being visible. Cellophane tape was originally named Scotch Cellulose Tape. Then it was renamed to Scotch Transparent Tape. It received the name 'Scotch' when a body-shop painter, while testing the tape, yelled in frustration "Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!" Cellophane tape was revealed to the public and its marketing began on January 31, 1930. It was patented in the same year on May 27. This date has thus been chosen as National Cellophane Tape Day. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-radio-commercials-old-time-radio-mp3-c3.html

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Today, May 27, 2026
May 27: World Marketing Day (International Day Of Marketing): -- Elevating products through strategic storytelling, creating connections that resonate and drive impact in the dynamic landscape of commerce. With the purpose of building bridges between businesses and their consumers, World Marketing Day is here to celebrate the essential role that marketing plays in the world. From driving innovation to fostering understanding and shaping patterns of consumers, this is a time to show appreciation for the strategy, dedication and creativity that marketing professionals put into their work! This event was started in 2023 to shine a light on the profound impact and contribution that marketing makes to society today. The European Marketing Confederation had a hand in establishing this event, along with the support of some organizations such as the World Marketing Summit, Kotler Impact and others. World Marketing Day is scheduled to take place each year on May 27thbecause it is the 1931 birth date of Philip Kotler, who is often considered to be the "father of modern marketing". As modern marketing has given way to impact marketing, the concept of marketing has evolved to allow more stakeholders to play a part in the positive impact, which also works to build profit. Each year, the Board of the European Marketing Confederation has decided to recognize a person of outstanding merit within the marketing world. During the inaugural observance of World Marketing Day in 2023, the person recognized was none other than Philip Kotler whose birthday the event seeks to honor :) . https://store.earthstation1.com/american-business-films-1910s1960s-3-dual-laye191019603.html

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Today, May 27, 2026
Last Monday Of May: Memorial Day (Decoration Day, Prayer For Peace Memorial Day): -- A federal holiday observed in the United States for remembering and honoring people who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Memorial Day was observed on May 30 from 1868 to 1971. Memorial Day originated both as Decoration Day and Prayer For Peace Memorial Day in the years following the Civil War. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial start of the summer vacation season in the United States, while Labor Day marks its end on the first Monday of September. Many people visit cemeteries and memorials on Memorial Day, particularly to honor those who died in military service. Many volunteers place an American flag on each grave in national cemeteries. Two other days celebrate those who serve or have served in the U.S. military: Veterans Day, which celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans; and Armed Forces Day, a minor U.S. remembrance celebrated earlier in May, specifically honoring those currently serving in the U.S. military. https://store.earthstation1.com/america-at-war-with-robert-vaughn-13-part-tv-series-4-dvd-134.html

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Today, May 27, 2026
May 27, 1992: #DOTD: #RIP: Donald K. Ross, USN Warrant Officer Donald K. Ross, first Medal Of Honor recipient of World War II (b. December 8, 1910) #dies of a heart attack in Bremerton, Washington at age 81. His ashes were scattered at sea over the USS Nevada, which was was decommissioned due to its age on August 29 1946, hit by the blast from atomic bomb Able during the Operation Crossroads atomic experiments at Bikini Atoll in July 1946, and sunk for naval gunfire practice on July 31, 1948. In 1997, the guided-missile destroyer USS_Ross_(DDG-71) was named in his honor. Donald K. Ross was born Donald Kirby Ross in Beverly, Kansas. On December 7, 1941, Donald K. Ross earned the medal for his actions aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Attack On Pearl Harbor. Nevada was badly damaged by bombs and torpedoes. Ross distinguished himself by assuming responsibility to furnish power to get the ship underway - the only battleship to do so during the Japanese attack. When the forward dynamo room where he was stationed filled with smoke and steam, he ordered his men to leave and continued servicing the dynamo himself until being blinded and falling unconscious. Upon being rescued and resuscitated, he went back to secure the forward dynamo, then worked in the aft dynamo room until losing consciousness a second time due to exhaustion. After waking, he again returned to his duties until Nevada was beached. His actions kept the ship under power, preventing it from sinking in the channel and blocking other ships in the harbor. Despite his impaired eyesight, Ross refused hospitalization and instead helped with rescue efforts. He entered a hospital three days after the attack, and his vision returned to normal after three weeks. He returned to Nevada, December 17, 1941, remaining in the ship's company for the duration of the war. Ross was promoted to chief warrant machinist in March 1942 and was commissioned an ensign in June 1942. Later in the war, he also served on Nevada during the landings at Normandy and Southern France. He rose steadily in temporary rank to lieutenant commander by the end of the war, reverting to lieutenant at its conclusion. He again received promotion to lieutenant commander in 1949 and to commander in November 1954. Upon his retirement from active duty in July 1956, after twenty-seven years' of service aboard every type of surface ship then afloat, he was promoted to captain on the basis of his combat awards. After leaving the Navy, Ross settled in Port Orchard, Washington, and ran a dairy farm. He and his wife, Helen, had four children: Fred, Robert, Penny, and Donna. He wrote a book about his fellow Medal Of Honor recipients with ties to Washington State, "Men Of Valor", published in 1980. Ross attended 50th Anniversary ceremonies at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1991, during which, Ross was given the honor of introducing President George H. W. Bush. Ross also participated in the dedication of a memorial to his old ship, the USS Nevada. https://store.earthstation1.com/medal-of-honor-world-war-ii-pearl-harbor-amp-pacific-mp4-download-dv4.html

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Today, May 27, 2026
May 27, 1933: Grand Openings: World's Fair Openings: The Chicago World's Fair (Century Of Progress, Officially A Century of Progress International Exposition): -- The Chicago World's Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois, and runs until October 31 (Halloween), 1934. The fair, registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), celebrated the city's centennial. Designed largely in Art Deco style, the theme of the fair was technological innovation, and its motto was "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms", trumpeting the message that science and American life were wedded. Its architectural symbol was the Sky Ride, a transporter bridge perpendicular to the shore on which one could ride from one side of the fair to the other. One description of the fair noted that the world, "then still mired in the malaise of the Great Depression, could glimpse a happier not-too-distant future, all driven by innovation in science and technology". Fair visitors saw the latest wonders in rail travel, automobiles, architecture and even cigarette-smoking robots. The exposition "emphasized technology and progress, a utopia, or perfect world, founded on democracy and manufacturing." https://store.earthstation1.com/world39s-fair-and-exposition-films-d39.html

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May 27, 1949: #DOTD: #RIP: Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, entrepreneur, publisher, amateur anthropologist and businessman, creator and founder of the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, television show, and radio show, which feature odd facts from around the world (b. February 22, 1890) #dies of a heart attack in New York City, aged 59. He was buried in his home town of Santa Rosa in the Oddfellows Lawn Cemetery, which is adjacent to the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery. Robert Ripley was born LeRoy Robert Ripley; his exact birthdate is disputed. Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little-known facts about unusual and exotic sites. He also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small-town American trivia ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by photographs and then depicted by his drawings. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-old-time-radio-scifi-paranormal-megaset-dual-layer-mp3-dv3.html

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Today, May 27, 2026
May 27, 1867: #DOTD: #RIP: Thomas Bulfinch, American writer and mythologist who reorganized the biblical book of Psalms to illustrate the history of the Hebrews, best known as the author of Bulfinch's Mythology, an 1881 compilation of his three previous works: 1) The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes (1855); 2) The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur (1858); and 3) Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages (1863) (b. July 15, 1796) #dies aged 70 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Thomas Bulfinch was born in Newton, Massachusetts. Bulfinch's Mythology is a classic work of popularized mythology, the standard for over a century and still in print 160 years after the first work, Age of Fable, was published. The compilation, assembled posthumously by Edward Everett Hale, includes various stories belonging to the mythological traditions known as the Matter of Rome, the Matter of Britain and the Matter of France, respectively. Bulfinch wrote in his preface: "Our work is not for the learned, nor for the theologian, nor for the philosopher, but for the reader of English literature, of either sex, who wishes to comprehend the allusions so frequently made by public speakers, lecturers, essayists, and poets, and those which occur in polite conversation.". The original volume was dedicated to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and described on the title page as an "attempt to popularize mythology and extend the enjoyment of elegant literature". In his preface, Bulfinch outlined his purpose, which was "an attempt to solve this problem, by telling the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement. We have endeavored to tell them correctly, according to the ancient authorities, so that when the reader finds them referred to he may not be at a loss to recognize the reference. Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education. The index at the end will adapt it to the purposes of a reference, and make it a Classical Dictionary for the parlor.". His obituary noted that the contents were "expurgated of all that would be offensive". The versions Bulfinch gives for the classical myths are those in Ovid and Virgil. His Norse myths are abridged from a work by Paul Henri Mallet (1730-1807), a professor at Geneva, translated by Bishop Thomas Percy as Northern Antiquities (London, 1770, often reprinted). The Bulfinch version of myth, published for genteel Americans just as the first studies of mythography were appearing in Germany, presents the myths in their literary versions, without unnecessary violence, sex, psychology or ethnographic information. Bulfinch's versions of these myths are still being taught in many American public schools. Bulfinch was the product of Boston Latin School, Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1814. Though the Bulfinch retellings were largely superseded in American high schools by Edith Hamilton's works on mythology, which were based directly on classical Greek texts, still avoiding archaeology, a "sumptuously illustrated" edition of Bulfinch's Mythology was offered in the Christmas 1979 catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://store.earthstation1.com/story-of-civilization-will-amp-ariel-durant-mp3-dvd-11-audiobo311.html

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Today, May 27, 2026
May 27, 1964: #DOTD: #RIP: Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and central figure in Indian politics, Indian independence activist who emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian independence movement under the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in 1964, 1st Prime Minister of India (b. November 14, 1889) #dies of a heart attack at 13:44 local time in New Delhi, India, aged 74. His death was announced in the Lok Sabha (Hindi: "The House Of The People"), the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament at 14:00 local time, 16 minutes later, in words similar to Nehru's own at the time of Gandhi's assassination: "The light is out." India's future prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee famously delivered Nehru an acclaimed eulogy. He hailed Nehru as Bharat Mata's "favourite prince" and likened him to the Hindu god Rama. Draped in the Indian national Tri-colour flag, the body of Jawaharlal Nehru was placed for public viewing. "Raghupati Raghava Rajaram" (also called "Ram Dhun"), a bhajan (devotional song) widely popularised by Mahatma Gandhi and set to music by Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, was chanted as the body was placed on the platform. On May 28, Nehru was cremated in accordance with Hindu rites at the Shantivan on the banks of the Yamuna, witnessed by 1.5 million mourners who had flocked into the streets of Delhi and the cremation grounds. US President Lyndon B. Johnson remarked on his death "History has already recorded his monumental contribution to the molding of a strong and independent India. And yet, it is not just as a leader of India that he has served humanity. Perhaps more than any other world leader he has given expression to man's yearning for peace. This is the issue of our age. In his fearless pursuit of a world free from war he has served all humanity." Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev remarked "He was a passionate fighter for peace in the whole world and an ardent champion of the realization of the principles of peaceful coexistence of states; he was the inspirer of the policy of Non-Alignment promoted by the Indian Government. This reasonable policy won India respect and due to it, India is now occupying a worthy place in the international arena." Nehru's death left India with no clear political heir to his leadership. Lal Bahadur Shastri later succeeded Nehru as the prime minister. In accordance with his final will and testament, Nehru's ashes were scattered partly in the Ganges and Jumna Rivers, with most of his ashes scattered "'over the fields where the peasants of India toil, so they might mingle with the dust and soil of India and become an indistinguishable part of India". Pandit (abbrev. Pt.; a Brahmin scholar or a teacher of any field of knowledge in Hinduism) Jawaharlal Nehru emerged as an eminent leader of the Indian independence movement under the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhi and served India as Prime Minister from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in 1964. He has been described the architect of the modern state of India. He was also known as Pandit Nehru due to his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community while Indian children knew him as Chacha Nehru (Hindi, lit., "Uncle Nehru"). The son of Motilal Nehru, a prominent lawyer and nationalist statesman and Swaroop Rani, Nehru was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and the Inner Temple, where he trained to be a barrister. Upon his return to India, he enrolled at the Allahabad High Court and took an interest in national politics, which eventually replaced his legal practice. A committed nationalist since his teenage years, he became a rising figure in Indian politics during the upheavals of the 1910s. He became the prominent leader of the left-wing factions of the Indian National Congress during the 1920s, and eventually of the entire Congress, with the tacit approval of his mentor, Gandhi. As Congress President in 1929, Nehru called for complete independence from the British Raj and instigated the Congress's decisive shift towards the left. Nehru and the Congress dominated Indian politics during the 1930s as the country moved towards independence. His idea of a secular nation-state was seemingly validated when the Congress swept the 1937 provincial elections and formed the government in several provinces; on the other hand, the separatist Muslim League fared much poorer. But these achievements were severely compromised in the aftermath of the Quit India Movement in 1942, which saw the British effectively crush the Congress as a political organisation. Nehru, who had reluctantly heeded Gandhi's call for immediate independence, for he had desired to support the Allied war effort during World War II, came out of a lengthy prison term to a much altered political landscape. The Muslim League under his old Congress colleague and now opponent, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, had come to dominate Muslim politics in India. Negotiations between Congress and Muslim League for power sharing failed and gave way to the independence and bloody partition of India in 1947. Nehru was elected by the Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister, although the question of leadership had been settled as far back as 1941, when Gandhi acknowledged Nehru as his political heir and successor. As Prime Minister, he set out to realise his vision of India. The Constitution of India was enacted in 1950, after which he embarked on an ambitious program of economic, social and political reforms. Chiefly, he oversaw India's transition from a colony to a republic, while nurturing a plural, multi-party system. In foreign policy, he took a leading role in the Non-Aligned Movement while projecting India as a regional hegemon in South Asia. Under Nehru's leadership, the Congress emerged as a catch-all party, dominating national and state-level politics and winning consecutive elections in 1951, 1957, and 1962. He remained popular with the people of India in spite of political troubles in his final years and failure of leadership during the 1962 Sino-Indian War. In India, his birthday is celebrated as Bal Diwas (Children's Day). https://store.earthstation1.com/mahatma-mohandas-gandhi-nonviolent-revolution-biography-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: War Jets: The Republic F-105 Thunderchief DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, May 27, 2026
May 27, 1958: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Aircraft Service Entries: -- The American supersonic fighter-bomber Republic F-105 Thunderchief introduced into service by the United States Air Force. Capable of Mach 2, it conducted the majority of strike bombing missions during the early years of the Vietnam War; it was the only American aircraft to have been removed from combat due to high loss rates. It was originally designed as a single-seat, nuclear-attack aircraft; a two-seat Wild Weasel version was later developed for the specialized Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) role against surface-to-air missile sites. The F-105 was commonly known as the "Thud" by its crews. As a follow-on to the Mach 1 capable North American F-100 Super Sabre, the F-105 was also armed with missiles and a rotary cannon; however, its design was tailored to high-speed low-altitude penetration carrying a single nuclear weapon internally. First flown in 1955, the Thunderchief entered service in 1958. The single-engine F-105 could deliver a bomb load greater than some American heavy bombers of World War II such as the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24 Liberator. The F-105 was one of the primary attack aircraft of the Vietnam War; over 20,000 Thunderchief sorties were flown, with 382 aircraft lost including 62 operational (non-combat) losses (out of the 833 produced). Although less agile than smaller MiG fighters, USAF F-105s were credited with 27.5 kills. During the war, the single-seat F-105D was the primary aircraft delivering heavy bomb loads against the various military targets. Meanwhile, the two-seat F-105F and F-105G Wild Weasel variants became the first dedicated SEAD platforms, fighting against the Soviet-built S-75 Dvina (NATO reporting name: SA-2 Guideline) surface-to-air missiles. Two Wild Weasel pilots were awarded the Medal Of Honor for attacking North Vietnamese surface-to-air missile sites, with one shooting down two MiG-17s the same day. The dangerous missions often required them to be the "first in, last out", suppressing enemy air defenses while strike aircraft accomplished their missions and then left the area. When the Thunderchief entered service it was the largest single-seat, single-engine combat aircraft in history, weighing approximately 50,000 pounds (23,000 kg). It could exceed the speed of sound at sea level and reach Mach 2 at high altitude. The F-105 could carry up to 14,000 lb (6,400 kg) of bombs and missiles. The Thunderchief was later replaced as a strike aircraft over North Vietnam by both the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and the swing-wing General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark. However, the "Wild Weasel" variants of the F-105 remained in service until 1984 after being replaced by the specialized F-4G "Wild Weasel V". https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-the-republic-f105-thunderchief-105.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: War Jets: The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, May 27, 2026
May 27, 1958: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: -- The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy, takes its first flight. Proving highly adaptable, it first entered service with the Navy in 1961 before it was adopted by the United States Marine Corps and the United States Air Force, and by the mid-1960s it had become a major part of their air arms. Phantom production ran from 1958 to 1981 with a total of 5,195 aircraft built, making it the most produced American supersonic military aircraft in history, and cementing its position as an iconic combat aircraft of the Cold War. The Phantom is a large fighter with a top speed of over Mach 2.2. It can carry more than 18,000 pounds (8,400 kg) of weapons on nine external hardpoints, including air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles, and various bombs. The F-4, like other interceptors of its time, was initially designed without an internal cannon. Later models incorporated an M61 Vulcan rotary cannon. Beginning in 1959, it set 15 world records for in-flight performance, including an absolute speed record and an absolute altitude record. The F-4 was used extensively during the Vietnam War. It served as the principal air superiority fighter for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps and became important in the ground-attack and aerial reconnaissance roles late in the war. During the Vietnam War, one U.S. Air Force pilot, two weapon systems officers (WSOs), one U.S. Navy pilot and one radar intercept officer (RIO) became aces by achieving five aerial kills against enemy fighter aircraft. The F-4 continued to form a major part of U.S. military air power throughout the 1970s and 1980s, being gradually replaced by more modern aircraft such as the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon in the U.S. Air Force, the F-14 Tomcat in the U.S. Navy, and the F/A-18 Hornet in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. The F-4 Phantom II remained in use by the U.S. in the reconnaissance and Wild Weasel (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) roles in the 1991 Gulf War, finally leaving service in 1996. It was also the only aircraft used by both U.S. flight demonstration teams: the United States Air Force Thunderbirds (F-4E) and the United States Navy Blue Angels (F-4J). The F-4 was also operated by the armed forces of 11 other nations. Israeli Phantoms saw extensive combat in several Arab-Israeli conflicts, while Iran used its large fleet of Phantoms, acquired before the fall of the Shah, in the Iran-Iraq War. As of 2021, 63 years after its first flight, the F-4 remains in active service with the air forces of Iran, South Korea, Greece and Turkey. The aircraft has most recently been in service against the Islamic State group in the Middle East. https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-the-mcdonnell-douglas-f4-phantom-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The History Of Jazz A Video Retrospective DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, May 27, 2026
May 27, 1994: #DOTD: #RIP: Red Rodney, American jazz, big band and bebop trumpet player, who became a professional musician at 15 and worked in the mid-1940s for the big bands of Jerry Wald, Jimmy Dorsey, Georgie Auld, Elliot Lawrence, Benny Goodman, and Les Brown, then switched to playing bebop after hearing Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, moving on to play with Claude Thornhill, Gene Krupa, and Woody Herman, ultimately invited by Charlie Parker to join his quintet from 1949-1951 as the only white member of the group as "Albino Red" when playing in the American south so as to avoid breaking racial segregation laws against integrated music groups, recording extensively during this time (b. September 27, 1927) #dies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from lung cancer, aged 66. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Red Rodney was born Robert Roland Chudnick in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the 1950s, he worked as a bandleader in Philadelphia and recorded with Ira Sullivan. He became addicted to heroin and started a pattern of dropping in and out of jazz. In 1958 he left jazz because of diminishing opportunities, lack of acceptance as a white bebop trumpeter, and legal problems due to his heroin addiction. He continued to work in other musical fields. Although he continued to be paid well, he supported his drug habit through theft and fraud, eventually spending 27 months in prison. In 1963, during a run-in with police, detective Frank Rizzo, the future mayor of Philadelphia, punched him in the mouth, loosening several teeth and starting the cycle of dental issues that continued into the 1970s. In September 1963, his father died; a month later, while his wife was driving him back from a Las Vegas gig, she lost control of their car and plunged down a Nevada highway embankment. Asleep in the back seat, he awoke to find his wife and 14-year-old daughter dead. During 1969, Rodney played in Las Vegas with fellow Woody Herman colleague, trombonist Bill Harris, as part of the Flamingo casino house band led by Russ Black. Similar work continued through 1972. In the early 1970s he was bankrupted by medical costs following a stroke. He returned to jazz. In 1975 he was incarcerated in Sandstone, Minnesota for drug offenses. While jailed he gave music lessons to guitarist Wayne Kramer of the MC5. He reunited with Ira Sullivan and performed with Dizzy Gillespie. From 1980 to 1982, Rodney made five albums with Sullivan. On these albums he started to play post bop jazz. He continued to work and record into the 1990s. He performed on a Charlie Parker tribute album by Charlie Watts, drummer for the Rolling Stones. He provided an early showcase for saxophonist Chris Potter, who was a member of his group and only 19 years old when Rodney recorded Red Alert in late 1990. He performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center and the JVC Jazz Festival. He worked as an adviser for Bird, a movie about Charlie Parker directed by Clint Eastwood. Michael Zelniker played him in the movie. Mark Rodney, Red Rodney's son, was a guitarist with the acoustic duo Batdorf and Rodney. Rodney's youngest son, Jeff Rodney, is a musician and disc jockey known as Jammin' Jeff. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-history-of-jazz-by-billy-taylor-parts-i-amp-ii-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WABC Radio Airchecks MP3 Collection 1960s-1980s DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, May 27, 2026
May 27, 2017: #DOTD: #RIP: Gregg Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. December 8, 1947) #dies at his home in Richmond Hill, Georgia, on May 27, 2017, due to complications from liver cancer at the age of 69. His funeral took place at Snow's Memorial Chapel in Macon on June 3, and was attended by once-estranged bandmate Dickey Betts, his ex-wife Cher, and former President Jimmy Carter, among others. According to Rolling Stone, the mourners dressed casually in jeans per Allman's request, and "hundreds of fans, many wearing Allman Brothers shirts and listening to the band's music, lined the route along the funeral procession." He was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, beside his brother Duane, and fellow band member Berry Oakley. He was born Gregory LeNoir Allman at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He was known for performing in the Allman Brothers Band. Allman grew up with an interest in rhythm and blues music, and the Allman Brothers Band fused it with rock music, jazz, and country at times. He wrote several of the band's biggest songs, including "Whipping Post", "Melissa", and "Midnight Rider". Allman also had a successful solo career, releasing seven studio albums. He was born and spent much of his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, before relocating to Daytona Beach, Florida and then Richmond Hill, Georgia. He and his brother, Duane Allman, formed the Allman Brothers Band in 1969, which reached mainstream success with their 1971 live album At Fillmore East. Shortly thereafter, Duane was killed in a motorcycle crash. The band continued, with Brothers and Sisters (1973) their most successful album. Allman began a solo career with Laid Back the same year, and was perhaps most famous for his marriage to pop star Cher for the rest of the decade. He had an unexpected late career hit with his cover of the song "I'm No Angel" in 1987, and his seventh solo album, Low Country Blues (2011), saw the highest chart positions of his career. Throughout his life, Allman struggled with alcohol and substance abuse, which formed the basis of his memoir My Cross to Bear (2012). His final album, Southern Blood, was released posthumously on September 8, 2017. Allman performed with a Hammond organ and guitar, and was recognized for his soulful voice. For his work in music, Allman was referred to as a Southern rock pioneer and received numerous awards, including one Grammy Award; he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. His distinctive voice placed him in 70th place in the Rolling Stone list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Liberators: Fighting On Two Fronts In World War II MP4 Download DVD
Today, May 27, 2026
May 27, 1936: #BOTD: #HBD! Louis Gossett Jr., African American actor (d. March 29, 2024) is #born Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, He had his stage debut at the age of 17, in a school production of You Can't Take It with You. Shortly after he successfully auditioned for the Broadway play Take a Giant Step. Gossett would go on acting on stage. One of these plays was A Raisin in the Sun in 1959, and in 1961 he made his debut on screen in its film adaptation. From thereon, Gossett added to his resume many roles in films and television, as well as releasing music. In 1977, Gossett gained wide recognition for his role of Fiddler in the popular miniseries Roots for which he won "Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series" at the Emmy Awards. Gossett continued acting in high profile films and television. In 1982, for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and became the first black actor to win in this category. At the Emmy Awards, Gossett continued to receive recognition with acting nominations for The Sentry Collection Presents Ben Vereen: His Roots (1978), Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1981), Sadat (1983), A Gathering of Old Men (1987), Touched by an Angel (1997), and Watchmen (2019). He won and was nominated at other ceremonies including the Golden Globe Awards, Black Reel Awards, NAACP Image Awards, etc. Gossett is also well known for his role as Colonel Chappy Sinclair in the Iron Eagle film series (1986-1995). Since his beginnings, Gossett appeared in a wide range of project. Film projects include Hal Ashby's The Landlord (1970), Paul Bogart's Skin Game (1971), George Cukor's Travels with My Aunt (1972), Stuart Rosenberg's The Laughing Policeman (1974), Philip Kaufman's The White Dawn (1974), Peter Yates's The Deep (1977), Wolfgang Petersen's Enemy Mine (1985), Christopher Cain's The Principal (1987), Mark Goldblatt's The Punisher (1989), Daniel Petrie's Toy Soldiers (1991), etc. As well as television appearance in Bonanza (1971), The Jeffersons (1975), American Playhouse (1990), Stargate SG-1 (2005), Boardwalk Empire (2013), The Book of Negroes (2015), etc. He also acted in video-games, commercials, and continued to work on stage. Gossett died at a rehabilitation center in Santa Monica, California, aged of 87. The cause of death was attributed to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; other contributing factors were heart failure and atrial fibrillation. The final disposition of his cremains is not publicly disclosed. https://store.earthstation1.com/liberators-fighting-on-two-fronts-in-world-war-ii-mp4-download-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Romantic Spirit TV Series DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, May 27, 2026
May 27, 1840: #DOTD: #RIP: Niccolo Paganini, Italian violinist, violist, mandolinist, guitarist and composer, the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time who left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique (b. October 27, 1782) #dies before a priest could be summoned from internal hemorrhaging caused by a complex of syphilis, mercury poisoning and tuberculosis; In May 1840, the Bishop of Nice had sent Paganini a local parish priest to perform the last rites, but Paganini assumed the sacrament was premature, and refused. Because of this refusal, and his widely rumored association with the devil due to rumors that he was diabolically gifted with his virtuosity, the Church denied his body a Catholic burial in Genoa. It took four years and an appeal to the Pope before the Church let his body be transported to Genoa, but it was still not buried. His body was finally buried in 1876, in a cemetery in Parma. In 1893, the Czech violinist Frantisek Ondricek persuaded Paganini's grandson, Attila, to allow a viewing of the violinist's body. After this episode, Paganini's body was finally reinterred in a new cemetery in Parma in 1896. Niccolo Paganini was born in Genoa, then capital of the Republic of Genoa, the third of the six children of Antonio and Teresa (nee Bocciardo) Paganini. Paganini's father was an unsuccessful trader, but he managed to supplement his income by playing music on the mandolin. At the age of five, Paganini started learning the mandolin from his father and moved to the violin by the age of seven. His musical talents were quickly recognized, earning him numerous scholarships for violin lessons. The young Paganini studied under various local violinists, including Giovanni Servetto and Giacomo Costa, but his progress quickly outpaced their abilities. Paganini and his father then traveled to Parma to seek further guidance from Alessandro Rolla. But upon listening to Paganini's playing, Rolla immediately referred him to his own teacher, Ferdinando Paer and, later, Paer's own teacher, Gasparo Ghiretti. Paganini's 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1 are among the best known of his compositions, and have served as an inspiration for many prominent composers. He was diagnosed with syphilis as early as 1822, and his remedy, which included mercury and opium, came with serious physical and psychological side effects. In 1834, while still in Paris, he was treated for tuberculosis. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-romantic-spirit-tv-series-all-14-episodes-5-dual-layer-d145.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Lost TV Pilots 6 Laughmakers Dobie Gillis Paul Revere Dean Jones DVD MP4 USB
Today, May 27, 2026
May 27, 1988: #DOTD: #RIP: Florida Friebus, writer and actress of stage, film, and television, best-known roles were Winifred "Winnie" Gillis, the sympathetic mother of Dwayne Hickman's character Dobie Gillis on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and Mrs. Lillian Bakerman on The Bob Newhart Show (b. October 10, 1909) #dies aged 78 in Laguna Niguel, California. Her cremains were buried at sea (presumably the Pacific Ocean). Florida Friebus was born in Auburndale, Massachusetts, to Theodore Friebus and Beatrice Flagg Mosier Friebus. She was known to make it clear to curious people that she was named after her mother's favorite aunt -- not after the state of Florida. Her paternal grandmother was named Florida as well. Friebus married actor Richard Waring, in 1934. They had one child who died in infancy. The couple divorced in 1952. Friebus never remarried. Friebus first acted professionally in 1929 in New York City, appearing in The Cradle Song with the Civic Repertory Theater. She appeared on television in such programs as The Ford Theatre Hour, Perry Mason, Bachelor Father, Father Knows Best, The Rookies, Peyton Place, Ironside, Gunsmoke, Sanford and Son, Ben Casey, The Doris Day Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Room 222, The Partridge Family, Chico and the Man, Barnaby Jones, Alice, and Rhoda. She also read stories to children on Look and Listen on KNXT in Los Angeles, California. As a writer, Friebus collaborated with Eva Le Gallienne to dramatize Alice in Wonderland. The play was presented on Broadway and later on the Hallmark Hall of Fame on television. Friebus spent more than 16 years on the board of Actors' Equity Association. She was presented the Phil Loeb Award "for extraordinary service to her profession." Friebus' papers are housed at the New York Public Library. https://store.earthstation1.com/lost-tv-pilots-6-laughmakers-dobie-gillis-paul-revere-dean-jone6.html