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Events from History on May 27

1281 : Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge
1328 : French king Philip VI Valois crowned
1529 : 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
1660 : Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire
1679 : Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in UK
1689 : Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland
1703 : St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
1738 : Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov
1796 : James S McLean patents his piano
1813 : Americans capture Ft George, Canada
1844 : Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
1850 : Mormon Temple in Nauvoo Illinois destroyed by tornado
1854 : Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed
1856 : Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning
1862 : Battle of Hanover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
1863 : CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die
1863 : Siege of Port Hudson LA
1864 : Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia
1878 : Australians Cricket 41 & 12-1 defeat MCC 33 & 19
1883 : Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow
1893 : Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland
1895 : British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
1896 : Bay District Race Track closes
1896 : Tornado hit St Louis, killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless
1898 : Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the 'Wells'," premieres in London
1900 : Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in S Africa
1903 : Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam
1905 : Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
1906 : 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
1907 : Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF
1916 : Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx
1917 : Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
1918 : Battle of Aisne
1919 : 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
1919 : Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster
1920 : Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1921 : Afghanistan gains sovereignty
1921 : After 84 years of British control, Afgh nist n achieves sovereignty
1927 : Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1927 : Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president
1929 : 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England
1930 : Richard Drew invents masking tape
1931 : 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va
1931 : Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon
1933 : Austrian communist party banned
1933 : Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
1933 : Federal Securities Act signed
1933 : Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
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, SF, dedicated
1940 : British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
1941 : Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta
1941 : FDR declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
1941 : German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
1942 : Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
1942 : Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
1942 : Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
1942 : Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot & mortally wounded in Prague
1943 : French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris
1943 : US forbid racial discrimination in war industry
1944 : Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
1944 : Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
1944 : Jean-Paul Sartres "Huis Clos," premieres in Paris
1948 : Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid
1948 : Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians
1949 : Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day"
1949 : Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane
1949 : Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin
1950 : "Arms & the Girl" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 134 performances
1950 : Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
1951 : Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1951 : Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens
1952 : European Defense Community forms
1953 : Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
1955 : Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0
1955 : Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1956 : French raid in Algiers
1956 : US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1958 : Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
1958 : Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1960 : 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney)
1960 : Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt
1960 : Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
1961 : 1st black light is sold
1961 : Pres Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon
1961 : Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' «"
1963 : Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya
1963 : to move them to NJ Meadowlands (Devils)
1964 : "From Russia With Love" premieres in US
1966 : 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes
1966 : 6 French fighters crash above Spain
1967 : "Sherry!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 65 performances
1968 : 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3
1968 : NL awards Montreal & SD major league franchises
1968 : Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost
1969 : Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV
1969 : Walt Disney World construction begins
1970 : British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
1970 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 : 23rd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 13-11
1972 : "Applause" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 900 performances
1974 : Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning
1975 : Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
1975 : Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
1975 : Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges
1976 : "Something's Afoot" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 61 performances
1977 : 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
1977 : NYC fines George Willig 1› for each of 110 stories he climbed
1979 : Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop
1980 : South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
1981 : John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
1981 : Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no
1981 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 : "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin NYC for 5 perfs
1983 : Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress
1984 : Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest," premieres in NYC
1985 : Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1985 : Inaugural bands parade for Pres Reagan
1986 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1986 : Norway Showcase groundbreaking
1986 : Prest Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
1987 : Jim & Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal
1987 : Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young & Sutton)
1988 : Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles
1990 : C‚sar Gaviria Trujillo chosen pres of Colombia
1990 : Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
1991 : Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
1993 : Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 HRs
1993 : Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
1994 : Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile
1994 : Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show
1994 : Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters
1994 : Larry King ended his radio show
1994 : Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35)
1997 : 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
1997 : Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract
1997 : Major league revenue sharing begins, NY Yanks pay out most $28M
1997 : Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault
1997 : Russian Pres Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO

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