On This Day: Friday, May 27, 2005 This is the 147th day of the year, with 218 days remaining in 2005. Holidays Feast day of St Julius the Veteran, St Eutropius of Orange, St Restituta of Sora, and St Melangel. Events 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 marries 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. Births 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, shipping and railroad magnate, established ferry service between Manhattan, Staten Islands. 1818 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, American reformer. 1819 - Julia Ward Howe, American author, reformer; wrote "Battle Hymn of the Republic". 1837 - Wild Bill (James) Hickok, US marshall, frontiersman. 1878 - Isadora Duncan, dancer and choreographer. 1894 - Dashiell Hammett, author. 1907 - Rachel Carson, biologist, writer. 1911 - Hubert Humphrey, US politician. 1915 - Herman Wouk, writer. 1923 - Henry Kissinger, US statesman.