Events
927
– Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: the
Croatian army, led by King Tomislav, defeats
the Bulgarian Army.
1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed
as Prince two weeks before his untimely
death.
1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the
city of Saint Petersburg.
1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes
place in Wexford, Ireland.
1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian
forces defeats the French at Winterthur,
Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern
Swiss Plateau because of the town's location
at the junction of seven cross-roads.
1812 – Bolivian War of Independence: In
Bolivia, the Battle of La Coronilla, in
which the women from Cochabamba fight
against the Spanish army.
1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American
forces capture Fort George.
1849 – The Great Hall of Euston station
in London is opened.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack
on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian
Unification.
1863 – American Civil War: First Assault
on the Confederate works at the Siege
of Port Hudson.
1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of
Russia.
1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis-East
St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri
and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing
at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion
in damage (1997 USD).
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle
of Tsushima begins.
1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San
Francisco, California.
1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon
after completing the first transatlantic
flight.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture
of the Ford Model T and begins to retool
plants to make the Ford Model A.
1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler
Building in New York City, the tallest
man-made structure at the time, opens
to the public.
1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities
Act is signed into law requiring the registration
of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases
the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its
hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big
Bad Wolf?"
1933 – The Century of Progress World's
Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of
the United States declares the National
Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional
in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United
States, (295 U.S. 495).
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate
Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating
a vital link between San Francisco and
Marin County, California.
1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis
massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk
Regiment unit are shot after surrendering
to German troops. Two survive.
1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin
D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited
national emergency".
1941 – World War II: The German battleship
Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic
killing almost 2,100 men.
1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid,
Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague.
1957 – Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes
Canada's first radio station to broadcast
only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
1958 – The F-4 Phantom II makes its first
flight.
1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes
President Celal Bayar and the rest of
the democratic government from office.
1962 – The Centralia, Pennsylvania mine
fire starts.
1965 – Vietnam War: American warships
begin the first bombardment of National
Liberation Front targets within South
Vietnam.
1967 – Australians vote in favor of a
constitutional referendum granting the
Australian government the power to make
laws to benefit Indigenous Australians
and to count them in the national census.
1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier
USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline
Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1968 – The meeting of the Union Nationale
des Étudiants de France (National Union
of the Students of France) takes place.
30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the
Stade Sebastien Charlety.
1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the
worst railway accident in West Germany,
kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1975 – Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash near
Grassington, North Yorkshire, England
kills 33 – the highest ever death toll
in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne
and army troops of South Korea retake
the city of Gwangju from civil militias,
killing at least 207 and possibly many
more.
1986 – the game credited as setting the
template for role-playing video games,
Dragon Quest is released in Japan.
1995 – In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher
Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down
after falling from his horse in a riding
competition.
1996 – First Chechnya War: Russian President
Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels
for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1997 – The unusual 1997 Central Texas
tornado outbreak Jarrell, Texas
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that
Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment
lawsuit against President Bill Clinton
while he is in office.
1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael
Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison
and fined $200,000 for failing to warn
authorities about the terrorist plot.
1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague,
Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević
and four others for war crimes and crimes
against humanity committed in Kosovo.
2001 – Members of Islamist separatist
group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages
from an upscale island resort on Palawan
in the Philippines; the hostage crisis
would not be resolved until June 2002.
2005 – Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced
to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan
Prison for drug smuggling by a court in
Indonesia.
2005 – The first year of the Tunisian
American Day, which became a yearly event
2006 – The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes
at 5:53:58 am local time (22:53:58 UTC
May 26) devastating Bantul and the city
of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.
Holidays
and observances
Armed
Forces Day (Nicaragua)
Children's Day (Nigeria)
Christian Feast Day:
Augustine of Canterbury
Bruno of Würzburg
Eutropius of Orange
Hildebert
Julius the Veteran
May 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Mother's Day or Día de la Madre (Bolivia)
Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint
Barthélemy, Saint Martin)
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