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Today in
History ~ May 27
Events
1328 - French king Philip VI Valois crowned
1529 - 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
1679 - Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in UK
1703 - St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
1796 - James S McLean patents his piano
1813 - Americans capture Ft George, Canada
1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
1862 - Battle of Hanover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
1863 - Siege of Port Hudson LA
1831 - Commanche kill mountain man Jedediah Smith [H]
1896 - Tornados hit St Louis, killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless
1905 - During the Russian-Japanese War, the Russian Baltic Fleet was nearly destroyed at the Battle of Tsushima Strait
1906 - 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
1907 - Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
1919 - Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster
1921 - After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty
1927 - The People's Car Production of the Ford Model T officially ended after 15,007,033 units had been built.
1930 - Richard Drew invents masking tape
1931 - Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon
1933 - Federal Securities Act signed
1935 - Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional
1936 - RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage
1937 - Golden Gate Bridge dedicated. [H]
1941 - German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
1942 - Nazi overlord and SS general Reinhard Heydrich is killed by Czech partisans in Prague. Hitler promptly orders the deaths of 10,000 residents of Lidice, not far from Prague.
This has become a hallmark of Nazi brutality. Heydrich was the man charged with -- The Final Solution of the Jewish Problem.
1943 - French resistance members under Jean Moulin meet secretly in Paris
1944 - Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
1948 - Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid
1949 - Russian stop train traffic to and from West-Berlin
1951 - Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1956 - French raid in Algiers
1958 - Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central High School
1963 - Jomo Kenyatta, one of modern Africa's earliest nationalist leaders, was elected the first prime minister of a newly autonomous Kenya.
1964 - "From Russia With Love" premieres in US
1966 - 6 French fighters crash above Spain
1968 - Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost
1970 - British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
1972 - "Applause" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 900 performances
1977 - 2 Boeing 747s (Pan Am & KLM) collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
1977 - NYC fines George Willig 1 cent for each of 110 stories he climbed on the World Trade Center
1980 - South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
1981 - John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
1985 - Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1990 - Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
1994 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile
1994 - CompuServe unveils CD-ROM plan
1994 - First International World Wide Web Conference ends
1996 - Yeltsin and Chechen Rebels Sign Truce
1997 - Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexual assault
1997 - Russian Pres Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
1998 - Michael Fortier, who testified against Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in a plea bargain in which he admitted prior knowledge of the plot to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City.
Birthdays Today
1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt (capitalist: established ferry service between Manhattan & Staten Islands; turned a NY railroad into $$$)
1818 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons
1819 - Julia Ward Howe, US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic)
1836 - Jay Gould, US railroad executive, financier
1837 - Wild Bill (James) Hickok (U.S. Marshall, frontiersman, army scout, gambler, legendary marksman)
1867 - Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon)
1894 - Dashiell Hammett (author: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, The Glass Key, Red Harvest, The Dain Curse)
1907 - Rachel Carson (author: Silent Spring)
1911 - Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn) 38th VP (1965-69), 1968 Pres candidate
1911 - Vincent Price (actor: Edward Scissorhands, House of Wax, The Raven, Laura, The Three Musketeers, Twice-told Tales; recording: Thriller w/Michael Jackson; author: cookbooks; artist)
1912 - Slammin' Sammy Snead (champion golfer: Masters [1949, 1952, 1954; British Open [1946]; PGA [1942, 1949, 1951])
1915 - Herman Wouk (writer: The Winds of War, Marjorie Morningstar, Caine
Mutiny)
1915 - Mario del Monaco, loud Italian opera tenor (Verdi/Puccini)
1917 - Yasuhiro Nakasone (former Prime Minister of Japan)
1921 - Caryl Chessman, kidnapper who got death penalty (1960)
1922 - Christopher Lee (actor: Dracula, The Mummy, The Far Pavilions)
1923 - Henry Kissinger (Nobel Peace Prize winner [1973] U.S. Secretary of State: Nixon Administration; political consultant: NBC News)
1932 - Zora Foley (boxer)
1934 - Harlan [Jay] Ellison, US, sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Doomsman, Babylon 5)
1935 - Lee Ann Meriwether (Miss America [1955]; actress: Barnaby Jones, Batman)
1935 - Ramsey Lewis (musician: group: Ramsey Lewis Trio: The In Crowd, Hang on Sloopy, Wade in the Water)
1936 - Lou Gossett (Academy Award-winning actor: An Officer and a Gentleman [1982]; Emmy winner: Roots; Sadat, Enemy Mine, Iron Eagle III)
1939 - Don Williams (country singer: I Believe in You; leader of Pozo- seco Singers; actor: Smokey and the Bandit II)
1943 - Bruce Weitz (actor: Hill Street Blues, Death of a Centerfold, The Liar's Club, The O.J. Simpson Story, Molly and Gina)
1943 - Cilla Black (Priscilla Maria Veronica White) (singer: You're My World)
1948 - Gary Nolan (baseball pitcher)
1954 - Catherine Carr (swimmer)
1961 - Cathy Silvers (actress: Happy Days; Phil Silvers' daughter)
Famous deaths
0927 - Symeon, czar of Bulgaria (
-927)
1525 - Thomas Munzer, German vicar/boer leader, executed
1549 - Lijsbeth Dirksdr, Friesian anabaptist, drowns
1564 - Jean Caulvin, [John Calvin], stern moralist/church reformer, dies at 54
1647 - Achsah Young, 1st woman believed to be a witch, executed in Salem Mass.
(Before the Witch Trials of
1692)
1661 - Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53
1840 - Niccolo Paganini, composer/violinist, dies at 57
1910 - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies
1918 - Henry Adams, US literature historian (Esther), dies at 80
1988 - Melvin J "Cy" Oliver, US jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies
at 77
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