On This Day for May 27 - Founding of St. Petersburg, Vincent Price is featured, and more

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. May 27 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Vincent Price READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1703 Founding of St. Petersburg READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY 2000: Canadian ice hockey player Maurice ("Rocket") Richard, who helped the Montreal Canadiens win eight Stanley Cups while becoming the first NHL player to score 500 goals, died at age 78. [ See where Maurice Richard ranks on our list of the 10 greatest hockey players of all time.] 1912: American short-story writer and novelist John Cheever, known as "the Chekhov of the suburbs," was born. [Take our quiz about famous novels.] 1911: American politician Hubert Humphrey—who was the 38th U.S. vice president (1965–69), a presidential candidate (1968), and a liberal Senate leader (1949–65; 1971–78)—was born in Wallace, South Dakota. 1907: American biologist Rachel Carson, who was known for her writings on environmental pollution and the natural history of the sea, was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania. [ Test your knowledge of pollution.] 1819: American author and lecturer Julia Ward Howe, who was best known for Battle Hymn of the Republic, was born. 1994: Exiled from the Soviet Union since February 13, 1974, for writing The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature, returned to his Russian homeland. [Take our quiz about literary Nobelists.] SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1922 Christopher Lee English actor 1923 Henry A. Kissinger United States statesman 1975 Jamie Oliver British chef 1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt American industrialist and philanthropist [1794–1877] 1912 Sam Snead American golfer 1911 Vincent Price American actor SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2020 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help