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Events on the 27th of May in history

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27 May 0927 Death of Simeon I the Great, the first Bulgarian to be recognized as Emperor.
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27 May 1120 Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
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27 May 1153 Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
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27 May 1199 John is crowned King of England.
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27 May 1281 Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge
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27 May 1328 French king Philip VI Valois crowned
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27 May 1529 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
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27 May 1644 Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
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27 May 1660 Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire
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27 May 1679 Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in the UK
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27 May 1689 Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland
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27 May 1703 Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
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27 May 1703 St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
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27 May 1738 Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov
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27 May 1796 James S McLean patents his piano
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27 May 1798 The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
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27 May 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.
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27 May 1813 War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
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27 May 1813 Americans capture Fort George, Canada
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27 May 1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
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27 May 1849 The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
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27 May 1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo Illinois destroyed by tornado
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27 May 1854 Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed
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27 May 1856 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning
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27 May 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
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27 May 1862 Battle of Hanover Court House VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
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27 May 1863 Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana
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27 May 1863 American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
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27 May 1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die
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27 May 1864 Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop) VA
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27 May 1873 1st Preakness Stakes won by Survivor (2:43)
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27 May 1874 The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
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27 May 1878 6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75
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27 May 1878 Australia Cricket 41 & 12-1 defeat MCC 33 & 19
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27 May 1882 10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44
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27 May 1883 Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
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27 May 1883 Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow
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27 May 1893 Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland
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27 May 1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
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27 May 1896 Tornado hits St. Louis, killing 255 and leaving thousands homeless
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27 May 1896 The F4-strength 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 US dollars).
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27 May 1896 1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis MO); killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless
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27 May 1896 Bay District Race Track closes
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27 May 1898 Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the 'Wells'" premieres in London
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27 May 1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa
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27 May 1902 27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8
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27 May 1903 37th Belmont Stakes: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75
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27 May 1903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam
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27 May 1904 National League record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, New York Giants)
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27 May 1905 Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
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27 May 1905 30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8
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27 May 1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
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27 May 1906 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
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27 May 1907 Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco.
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27 May 1908 Khilafat Day – the day of establishment of Khilafat in Islam Ahmadiyya.
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27 May 1916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in the Bronx
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27 May 1917 Race riot in East St. Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
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27 May 1918 Battle of Aisne
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27 May 1919 The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
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27 May 1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
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27 May 1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster
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27 May 1920 Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
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27 May 1920 Tatar ASSR is established in Russian SFSR
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27 May 1921 Afghanistan gains sovereignty
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27 May 1921 After 84 years of British control, Afgh
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27 May 1927 The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
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27 May 1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
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27 May 1927 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakian president
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27 May 1929 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England
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27 May 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.
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27 May 1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape
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27 May 1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field, Virginia
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27 May 1931 Piccard and Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon
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27 May 1931 Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon; 1st use of pressurized cabin in a balloon
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27 May 1933 New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
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27 May 1933 The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
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27 May 1933 The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.
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27 May 1933 Austrian communist party banned
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27 May 1933 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
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27 May 1933 Federal Securities Act signed
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27 May 1933 Trailing 11-3, Yankees score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11
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27 May 1933 Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
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27 May 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).
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27 May 1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional
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27 May 1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for New York on maiden voyage
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27 May 1937 Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated
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27 May 1937 In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
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27 May 1937 Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936)
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27 May 1937 Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, dedicated
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27 May 1938 Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of England season, earliest to do so
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27 May 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.
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27 May 1940 British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
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27 May 1941 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
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27 May 1941 World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
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27 May 1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta
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27 May 1941 FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
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27 May 1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
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27 May 1942 World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
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27 May 1942 Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
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27 May 1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered
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27 May 1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
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27 May 1942 Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot & mortally wounded in Prague
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27 May 1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris
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27 May 1943 US forbids racial discrimination in war industry
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27 May 1944 Jean-Paul Sartres "Huis Clos, " premieres in Paris
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27 May 1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
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27 May 1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
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27 May 1944 Jean-Paul Sartre's "Huis Clos" premieres in Paris France
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27 May 1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid
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27 May 1948 Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians
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27 May 1949 Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day"
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27 May 1949 Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane
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27 May 1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin
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27 May 1950 "Arms & the Girl" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 134 performances
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27 May 1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
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27 May 1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
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27 May 1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Fransisco opens
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27 May 1952 European Defense Community forms
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27 May 1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
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27 May 1955 Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0
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27 May 1955 Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV
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27 May 1956 French raid in Algiers
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27 May 1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
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27 May 1958 The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
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27 May 1958 Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
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27 May 1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
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27 May 1960 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Baltimore Oriole Clint Courtney)
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27 May 1960 In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
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27 May 1960 Baltimore manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt (used by Clint Courtney)
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27 May 1960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
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27 May 1961 1st black light is sold
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27 May 1961 Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup II in Florence
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27 May 1961 President Kennedy announces US goal to reach the Moon
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27 May 1961 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 27'
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27 May 1962 The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
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27 May 1962 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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27 May 1963 3 New Jersey businessmen purchase the NHL Colorado Rockies, & get approval to move them to the New Jersey Meadowlands (Devils)
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27 May 1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya
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27 May 1964 "From Russia With Love" premieres in US
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27 May 1964 "From Russia With Love" premieres in US
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27 May 1965 Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
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27 May 1965 Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan
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27 May 1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes
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27 May 1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain
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27 May 1967 "Sherry!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 65 performances
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27 May 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.
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27 May 1967 The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
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27 May 1968 NL awards Montreal and SD major league franchises
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27 May 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 Sébastien Charléty.
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27 May 1968 Major League Baseball's National League awards Montreal the first franchise in Canada and the first franchise outside the United States. (the Montreal Expos)
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27 May 1968 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 4-3
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27 May 1968 National League awards Montr
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27 May 1968 Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost
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27 May 1969 Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV
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27 May 1969 Walt Disney World construction begins
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27 May 1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
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27 May 1971 23rd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 13-11
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27 May 1971 The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
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27 May 1971 23rd Walker Cup: Great Britain/Ireland 13-United States 11
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27 May 1971 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
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27 May 1972 "Applause" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 900 performances
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27 May 1972 "Jimmy Castor Bunch's Troglodyte" (Cave Man) hits #6
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27 May 1973 Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6
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27 May 1974 Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning
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27 May 1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
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27 May 1975 Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
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27 May 1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
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27 May 1975 Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2
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27 May 1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges from Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
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27 May 1976 "Something's Afoot" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 61 performances
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27 May 1977 New York City fines George Willig 1 cent for each of 110 stories he climbed
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27 May 1977 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
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27 May 1977 NYC fines George Willig 1
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27 May 1979 Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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27 May 1979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop
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27 May 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.
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27 May 1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
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27 May 1981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
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27 May 1981 Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but the umpire says no
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27 May 1981 Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris France
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27 May 1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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27 May 1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin NYC for 5 performances
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27 May 1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" opens at Alvin NYC for 5 performances
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27 May 1982 John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies & gets approval to move to New Jersey
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27 May 1983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress
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27 May 1984 Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker Contest" premieres in NYC
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27 May 1984 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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27 May 1984 Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day
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27 May 1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
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27 May 1985 Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan
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27 May 1986 Dragon Quest, the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, is released in Japan.
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27 May 1986 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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27 May 1986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking
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27 May 1986 President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
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27 May 1987 Jim and Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal
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27 May 1987 Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
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27 May 1987 Yankee Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young & Sutton)
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27 May 1988 Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles
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27 May 1990 74th Indianapolis 500 runs
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27 May 1990 74th Indianapolis 500 runs; Arie Luyendyk wins with an average speed of 185.981 mph
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27 May 1990 C
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27 May 1990 Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game
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27 May 1990 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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27 May 1990 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
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27 May 1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
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27 May 1993 Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 homeruns
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27 May 1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
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27 May 1994 Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile
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27 May 1994 Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show
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27 May 1994 Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters
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27 May 1994 Larry King ended his radio show
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27 May 1994 Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35)
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27 May 1995 In Culpeper, Virginia, the actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
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27 May 1996 First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
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27 May 1997 Arie Luyendyk wins his 2nd Indianapolis 500
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27 May 1997 The unusual tornado outbreak in Jarrell, Texas.
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27 May 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.
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27 May 1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
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27 May 1997 Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract
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27 May 1997 Major league revenue sharing begins, New York Yankees pay out most $28 million
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27 May 1997 Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault
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27 May 1997 Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
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27 May 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.
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27 May 2001 Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
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27 May 2006 The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.
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