11 Odd But True Events From May 27

Love trivia? Here are 11 odd but true events from May 27 you may find as fascinating as I did.

1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the iconic and best-selling Ford Model T and begins to retool their plants to make the new Ford Model A.

1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.

1933 – Roosevelt's New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission. This will help prevent future banks from failing as they did in the Great Depression.

1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon film "Three Little Pigs," with its catchy hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" Practical Pig, Fiddler Pig and Fifer Pig are three pig brothers who build their respective houses with bricks, sticks and straw.

All three of them play a different kind of musical instrument – Fifer Pig "toots his flute, doesn't give a hoot and plays around all day," Fiddler Pig "with a hey diddle diddle, plays on his fiddle and dances all kinds of jigs" and Practical Pig is initially seen as working without rest. His daily life is described as "he has no chance to sing and dance, for work and play don't mix,"

1935 – Roosevelt's New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).

1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.

1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".

1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.

1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.

1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

2016 – Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha. Hibakusha is a Japanese word used to describe the people affected by the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is translated as 被爆者/被曝者, hi 被 "affected" + baku 爆 "bomb" or 曝 "exposition" + sha 者 "person". Most of the still-living Hibakusha have severe burns and scars, as seen in the photo above.

Images courtesy of public domain.

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