This day in history - May 27

[seamusTX]

1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge opened. It was the longest suspension bridge at that time, a record that it held for a quarter century.

1941 - British naval forces sank the Bismarck, a week after the German ship sank the HMS Hood.

The Bismark was the largest battleship then in service. Sinking it was as significant to the British as blowing up the Deathstar was in Star Wars, except that the Bismark stayed sunk.

- Jim

[longtooth]

We hit the dcks a runnin boys & spun those guns around. We had to sink the Bismark. We had to cut her down.

Forgot who sung it & may not be the exact lyrics.

In those days the people of this nation still liked a good fightin song.
Rise up OH nation of fighters again & enjoin the battle that is today's at the ballot box, in e-mails, letters, & tele Calls. If we loose this one our children & Grandchildren will be in Social Bondage.

[Kythas]

Also on this date:

1533 England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.


1937 Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.


1940 The Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces during World War II.


1957 The National League approved the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively.


1977 Fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky., killing 165 people.


1984 President Ronald Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War.


1987 Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.


1996 President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud.


1998 Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts.


1998 Comic actor Phil Hartman of "Saturday Night Live" and "NewsRadio" fame was shot to death by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself.


2006 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth on the career list and move into second place behind Hank Aaron.

[timdsmith72]

We hit the dcks a runnin boys & spun those guns around. We had to sink the Bismark. We had to cut her down.

Forgot who sung it & may not be the exact lyrics.

Johnny Horton

[bryang]

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=KecIdlEAKhU[/youtube]


-geo

[DoubleJ]

2006 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth on the career list and move into second place behind Hank Aaron.

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[pbwalker]

2006 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth on the career list and move into second place behind Hank Aaron.

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[bryang]

2006 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth on the career list and move into second place behind Hank Aaron.

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Really...

-geo

[longtooth]

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=KecIdlEAKhU[/youtube]


-geo

Thank you bryan. I remember that one from my late teen yrs & early 20s.
Reviewed his hits & remembered them. He was one of the really greats. Need some more good patriotic ballad writers like him again.

[bryang]

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=KecIdlEAKhU[/youtube]


-geo

Thank you bryan. I remember that one from my late teen yrs & early 20s.
Reviewed his hits & remembered them. He was one of the really greats. Need some more good patriotic ballad writers like him again.

You are welcome, Longtooth, they are some of my old favorites, too. They bring back some good memories. About all I listen to now days is the oldies but goodies.

-geo