Video: 'John Lennon The making of Imagine 1971'
(Thursday, May 27, 1971) — Former Beatle John Lennon tracked 11 takes (6 complete) of “Imagine” today at Ascot Sound Studios, his home recording facility at Tittenhurst Park near Ascot in Berkshire.
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Video: 'What Manner of Man, Part 1'
(Saturday, May 27, 1911) — Hubert Humphrey, the 38th Vice President of the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson (1965-1969) and the 1968 Democratic presidential nominee, was born today in a room over his father’s drugstore in Wallace, South Dakota.
Continue reading U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey born in Wallace, South Dakota 110 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 27 1911)
Video: '092 - Sink the Bismarck! - The Pride of the Kriegsmarine's Demise - WW2 - May 30 1941' (Operation Rheinübung at 0:43)
(Tuesday, May 27, 1941, 10:39 a.m. Central European Summer Time; during the Last battle of the battleship Bismarck, part of Operation Rheinübung, part of the Battle of the Atlantic, during World War II) — British ships and planes sank the German battleship Bismarck today 400 miles west of the French port of Brest, with a loss of more than 2,100 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the 42,100-ton battle cruiser HMS Hood with the loss of more than 1,400 lives.
Continue reading British sink German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of some 2,100 lives 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 27 1941)
