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Today in History May 27th 1703: St. Petersburg Founded Czar Peter the Great founded the city of St. Petersburg as Russia's new capital. The main site in downtown St. Petersburg was the Trinity Church, the first church in the city. St. Petersburg is today the most northern city in the world that has a population of over one million. More about the founding of St. Petersburg: cityvision2000.com 1936: Queen Mary Made Her Maiden Voyage The British luxury liner RMS Queen Mary made her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York. For more than 30 years, the Queen Mary ferried hundreds of thousands of passengers across the Atlantic. In 1967, the ship was sold to the city of Long Beach, California. A comparison of the Titanic with the Queen Mary: queenmary.org 1937: Golden Gate Bridge Completed and Opened San Francisco's Golden Gate bridge was completed and opened to the public. Its span of 1.2 miles (1.9 km) made it the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time. The Golden Gate is one of the world's most recognized and photographed bridges because of its magnificent setting, art deco architecture, and distinctive orange color. The bridge took four years to build: goldengate.org 1963: Jomo Kenyatta Elected Prime Minster of Kenya Jomo Kenyatta was elected first prime minister of self-governing Kenya. In the early 1950s, Kenyatta had been sentenced to seven years of hard labor for alleged links to the Mau Mau, a clandestine anti-British organization. In 1964, Kenyatta became the first president of Kenya, remaining in that position until 1978. After independence, Kenya faced enormous obstacles: kenyaweb.com 1994: Solzhenitsyn Returned to Russia Russian Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to his homeland after living in exile for two decades. The famous writer had been expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 after his three-volume expose of the Soviet prison camp system, "The Gulag Archipelago," was published. Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1970: nobel.sdsc.edu Holidays & Events May 27 Indy 500, Palio dei Balestrieri UNITED STATES: INDY 500 Race cars will roar around the track today in the prestigious Indianapolis 500. The race was first held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1911, when $14,250 went to the winner. By the 1980s, the prize money had exceeded $1.5 million. Crowds reach 300,000 and many more watch the race on television. The Indy 500 race has been run every year (except during the war years 1917-1918 and 1942-1945) on the Memorial Day Weekend. The official Web site for the race: indy500.com The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is nicknamed the Brickyard: ims.brickyard.com Test yourself with Indianapolis-500 related trivia: ci.indianapolis.in.us ITALY: PALIO DEI BALESTRIERI The Palio dei Balestrieri is an annual competition among archers held on the last Sunday in May in Gubbio. The people of Gubbio and of nearby Sansepolcro dress in medieval costumes and take up arms for the event, which dates back to the 1400s. ------------------ Copyright (c) 2001, The Learning Kingdom, Inc. learningkingdom.com