NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 21. -- The Yale varsity track team defeated Harvard by 71 1/2 points to 63 1/2 today. It was Yale's twenty-first success to Harvard's thirteen for the thirty-four years of their dual competition. The pole vault of 13 feet 6 1/8 inches by Sabin Carr of Yale, breaking the meet record, which also is an intercollegiate mark, was the most brilliant individual performance of the day.

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1927Michael Constantine, American actor (died 2021)^[†]

Michael Constantine was a Greek-American actor. He is most widely recognized for his portrayal of Kostas "Gus" Portokalos, the stubborn Greek father of Toula Portokalos, in the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002). For his performance, Constantine won a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Musical or Comedy.

1927Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (died 2014)^[†]

Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction and fiction. He was also a prominent environmental activist.

1927George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)^[†]

George Andrew Olah was a Hungarian-American chemist. His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry." He was also awarded the Priestley Medal, the highest honor granted by the American Chemical Society and F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research of the American Chemical Society in 1996.

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1927Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.^[†]

Xining is the capital and most populous city of Qinghai province in western China and the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau. As of the 2020 census, it had 2,467,965 inhabitants, of whom 1,954,795 lived in the built-up area made of 5 urban districts. The city lies in the Huangshui River Valley, also known as Tsongkha, and owing to its high altitude, has a cool climate on the borderline between cool semi-arid and dry winter humid continental.

Headlines from May 22, 1927

YANKS LOSE IN 12TH ON PASS BY MOORE; Drop Thriller to Indians, 5-4, When Walk Forces In Deciding Tally.

LINDBERGH TRIUMPH THRILLS COOLIDGE; President Cables Praise to "Heroic Flier" and Concern for Nungesser and Coli. CAPITAL THROBS WITH JOY Kellogg, New, MacNider, Patrick and Many More Join in Paying Tribute to Daring Youth. LINDBERGH TRIUMPH THRILLS COOLIDGE

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YALE TOPS HARVARD IN ATHLETIC MEET; Rolls Up Point Score of 71 1/2 to 63 1/2 -- Carr Equals College Mark in Pole Vault. MILLER WINS THE CENTURY Defeats Paulsen of Yale, but Bows to Latter in 220 -- Pratt Rolls Up 11 Points.

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