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Fats Waller, African American jazz pianist and entertainer (died 1943) [45] June 2 – Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer and actor (Tarzan) (died 1984) [46] June 3 – Charles R. Drew, African American physician, pioneer in blood transfusion (died 1950) [47] June 24 – Phil Harris, bandleader and comic actor (died 1995)"Benny Show's Phil Harris Dies ...
Charles Edward Adams (1904), director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York [59] Russell Cheney (1904), American painter and noted portrait artist. [3]: 86 Thomas Day Thacher (1904), US District Court judge, Solicitor General [3]: 183 [4]: 183 John Gillespie Magee (1906), Yale Chaplain, documenter of the Rape of Nanking [11]: 205
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By 9:00 p.m. on May 19, nearly 1,000 men and women gathered at the jail. A body of masked men carrying an assortment of weapons demanded the Sheriff open the jail's door. When the Sheriff refused, the men used a sledgehammer to breach the door rushed in, and swiftly overpowered the Sheriff and other officers on duty.
January 23 – Louis Zukofsky, American modernist poet (died 1978) February 1 – S. J. Perelman, American humorist and author (died 1979) February 4 – MacKinlay Kantor, American historian (died 1977) February 19 – Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Irish memoirist (drowned 1950) March 2 – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), American children's ...
Alysia Reiner - American actress and producer, best known for playing Natalie "Fig" Figueroa in the Netflix comedy drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as part of the ensemble cast
1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti executed, seven years after they were convicted of murdering two men during an armed robbery in Massachusetts; 1927 – Charles Lindbergh makes first trans–Atlantic flight; 1927 – The Jazz Singer, the first motion picture with sound, is released; 1927 – U.S. citizenship granted to inhabitants of U.S. Virgin Islands
In Vienna, Austria, the secessionist artists decided not to exhibit at the upcoming Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. [38]An intercolonial express train on its way from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Montreal and Boston derailed near Hunter's Crossing, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Halifax, and fell into the Shuberdarie River, killing 2 people and seriously injuring 27.