GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS TUESDAY, May 27, the 147th day of 2014 with 218 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 5:12 and sunset is @ 8:10. The New Moon is exact @ 2:41 PM EST. The morning stars are stars are Neptune, Uranus & Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury & Saturn.
ON THIS DAY IN: 1647 – Achsah Young became the first woman known to be executed as a witch in Massachusetts.
1703 – After winning access to the Baltic Sea through his victories in the Great Northern War,Czar Peter I founded the city of St. Petersburg as the new Russian capital.
1929 – Colonel Charles Lindbergh married Anne Spencer Murrow.
1930 – Richard Gurley Drew received a patent for adhesive tape, later made by 3M as Scotch tape.
1931 – In a balloon launched from Germany, Paul Kipfer and Auguste Piccard became the first to reach the stratosphere, rising almost 10 miles during their flight.
1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened.
1941 – The British navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France, with the German death toll over 2,000.
1994 – Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after two decades of exile.