Today in History: May 27
1703—Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of St. Petersburg, which would serve as the capital of the Russian Empire for two centuries.
1907—Rachel Carson, the author of "Silent Spring," which raised rang the alarm on pesticides, is born in Springdale, Pa.
1930—Inventor Richard Gurley Drew receives a patent for his adhesive tape, later branded Scotch Tape by manufacturer 3M.
1937—San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge is opened to the public for the first time for "Pedestrian Day." More than 200,000 people paid 25 cents to walk across the bridge, the longest suspension bridge until the opening of New York's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in 1964.
1994—Dissident writer and Nobel winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to his native Russia after living in exile for more than 20 years.
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