Gregory LeNoir "Gregg" Allman(December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017)
Gregg Allman, the legendary frontman of The Allman Brothers, died Saturday at his home in Savannah, Georgia due to complications of liver cancer. He had a history of health problems in the past and underwent a liver transplant in 2010.
The Golden Gate Bridge was opened to pedestrian traffic on this day in 1937. The bridge connected San Francisco and Marin County in California.
In The Hague, Netherlands, on this day in 1999, a war crimes tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic and four others for atrocities in Kosovo.
It was the first time that a sitting head of state had been charged with such a crime.
On this day in 1941. the German battleship Bismarck was sunk by British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed.
Queen Mary sailed on her maiden voyage on this day in 1936 captured the Blue Riband in August of that year; she lost the title to SS Normandie in 1937 and recaptured it in 1938, holding it until 1952 when she was beaten by the new SS United States. With the outbreak of the Second World War, she was converted into a troopship and ferried Allied soldiers for the duration of the war.