Today is Wednesday, May 27, the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 218 days remain until the end of the year.
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Among other things, today is Cellophane Tape Day, National Grape Popsicle Day, National Gray Day, National Senior Health & Fitness Day®, Nothing to Fear Day, Old-Time Player Piano Day, Sunscreen Protection Day, and World Product Day.
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On this day:
in 1837, American folk hero Wild
Bill Hickock (d. August 2, 1876) was born.
in 1907, Silent
Spring author Rachel
Carson (d. April 14, 1964) was born. Quotes
by Rachel Carson.
in 1911, Vincent
Price (d. October 25, 1993) was born.
in 1911, Hubert
H. Humphrey (d. January 13, 1978) was born. Quotes
by Hubert H. Humphrey
in 1922, Christopher
Lee (d. June 7, 2015) was born.
in 1923, Henry
Kissinger was born. Quotes
by Henry Kissinger
in 1933, Walt Disney's cartoon 3
Little Pigs was released. It won the Academy Award Best Animated
film in 1934;
in 1934, Harlan
Ellison (d. June 28, 2018) was born. Quotes
by Harlan Ellison
in 1935, Lee
Meriwether was born.
in 1936, Louis
Gossett Jr. was born.
in 1937, the Golden
Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic.
in 1941, the German
battleship Bismarck
was sunk in the North Atlantic.
in 1962, the Centralia
mine fire was ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine. It
could burn for another 250 years.
in 1995, actor Christopher Reeve
(September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004)
was paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a
riding competition in Culpeper, Virginia. Quotes
by Christopher Reeve
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Where U.S. coronavirus cases are on the rise... Twenty U.S. states reported an increase in new cases of COVID-19 for the week ended May 24, up from 13 states in the prior week, as the death toll from the novel coronavirus approaches 100,000, according to a Reuters analysis.
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The coronavirus is deadliest where Democrats live. Democrats are far more likely to live in counties where the virus has ravaged the community, while Republicans are more likely to live in counties that have been relatively unscathed by the illness, though they are paying an economic price. Counties won by President Trump in 2016 have reported just 27 percent of the virus infections and 21 percent of the deaths — even though 45 percent of Americans live in these communities, a New York Times analysis has found.
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Remembering Sara Little Turnbull, whose bra cup design became the N95 mask.
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Asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck earth at “deadliest possible” angle. Related: Meteor that blasted millions of trees in Siberia only 'grazed' Earth, new research says.
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Twitter refuses to remove Trump's false tweets, but in some cases has begun fact-checking them.
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America's unemployment numbers are stabilizing. That's not a good thing.
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Kate Mulgrew might 'move to Ireland' if Trump wins second term.
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McConnell: Talking about fifth coronavirus bill 'in the next month or so'.
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NOAA's outlook for US summer weather—and hurricane season... wet, dry, and windy.
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'Something isn't right': U.S. probes soaring beef prices. One hundred years ago, U.S. antitrust prosecutors broke down monopolies in meatpacking. But can they do it again?
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Thoughts of the day:
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
-Charles
Caleb Coulton
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to
go to summer school.
-Peter De Vries
If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get
back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.
-Don
King
Population density is a term that has two meanings.
-William W.
Webb
Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time
as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just
burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries
ago.
-Julian Barnes
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You are not working from home. You are laboring in confinement, under duress.
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