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Events on 27 May

Events

• First version of WordPress released [2003]
• Dragon Quest game released [1986]
• Golden Gate Bridge opens [1937]
• Three Little Pigs cartoon released by Walt Disney Company [1933]
• First flight into stratosphere by balloon [1931]
• First transatlantic flight by aircraft completed [1919]
• Camera patented by Birt Acres [1895]

Birthdays

• Michael Buonauro [1979]
  American webcomic artist
• John Cockcroft [1897]
  Nobel laureate known for his work on the development of nuclear power

Death Anniversaries

• Ed Yost [2007]
  Inventor of the modern hot air balloon
• Alex Toth [2006]
  American cartoonist
• Ernst Ruska [1988]
  Nobel laureate known for electron optics
• Robert Ripley [1949]
  Developer of 'Ripley's Believe It or Not!'
• Joseph Swan [1914]
  One of the first inventors of the electric light bulb
• Robert Koch [1910]
  One of the founders of modern microbiology