10 years ago

From the Journal Tribune: “A woman who was shot by police Friday after she allegedly threatened them with a fun during a standoff has been transferred to Goodall Hospital in Sanford, where she is listed in ‘good’ condition this morning. Jillian Daniels, 26, was transferred from Maine Medical Center in Portland sometime over the weekend. Daniels, who was convicted in connection with three armed robberies in N.H., is under police guard at the Sanford hospital. She will be transferred to York County Jail when physicians deem her able to be moved.”

50 years ago

From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “Henry W. Labbe, 41, of Bay View Road, Saco was sworn in today as a reserve officer of the Saco police department by City Clerk Joan Lamontagne. Labbe served for three years as a reserve officer for the Biddeford police department and was a cruise car officer for 14 months with that department.”

100 years ago

From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “A strange coincidence took place in the home of Edward Garon, who resides on Washington Street. On Friday, Mr. Garon met with an accident at his place of employment at the Biddeford Boxshop. Because of this, his hand was badly jammed, requiring the attention of a physician. He had been at home but for a short time when his son arrived at the house, with a thumb badly cut, having had the services of a physician to fix up the injury.”

— Krysteana Scribner

Today in History

Today is Friday, May 27, the 148th day of 2016. There are 218 days left in the year.

On this date: In 1929, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. married Anne Morrow in Englewood, New Jersey. In 1933, the Chicago World’s Fair, celebrating “A Century of Progress,” officially opened. Walt Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated short “The Three Little Pigs” was first released. In 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, unanimously struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act, a key component of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” legislative program. In 1936, the Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage to New York. In 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened to pedestrian traffic (vehicles began crossing the next day).

Today’s Highlight in History:

On May 27, 1941, the British Royal Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of some 2,000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood with the loss of more than 1,400 lives. Amid rising world tensions, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed an “unlimited national emergency” during a radio address from the White House.

Ten years ago A 6.3-magnitude earthquake in central Indonesia killed some 5,800 people. Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, was born in Namibia, where the family had traveled for privacy.

Five years ago Astronauts Mike Fincke and Gregory Chamitoff made history as the final spacewalkers of NASA’s 30-year shuttle program, completing construction of the International Space Station with the smooth addition of an extension pole. Rich countries and international lenders said at a Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, they were aiming to provide $40 billion in funding for Arab nations trying to establish democracy, starting with Egypt and Tunisia. President Barack Obama, visiting Poland, honored the memories of those slain in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazis.

One year ago The U.S. government launched an attack on what it called deep-seated and brazen corruption in soccer’s global governing body, FIFA, indicting 14 influential figures on charges of racketeering and taking bribes. — By The Associated Press

Quote of the day:

“Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.” — Chuang-Tzu Chinese essayist (c.369-c.286 B.C.)