Pls dont be lazy u can pick one or two tinz......27th may Historical Events on 27th May ◀ Apr May Jun ▶ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 All Events Birthdays Weddings Deaths Events 1 - 188 of 188 927 - Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Simeon I of Bulgaria is defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia. 1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death. 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 England 1689 - Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland 1692 - Court of Oyer and Terminer established by Governor of Massachusetts to hear accussations of witchcraft Russian Tsar Peter the Great 1703 - St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great 1738 - Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov 1796 - James S McLean patents his piano 1798 - The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland. 1813 - Americans capture Ft George, Canada 1849 - The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened. 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, Peakes Station) 1863 - CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die 1863 - Siege of Port Hudson LA 1864 - Skirmish at Salem Church (Haws Shop), Virginia 1878 - 6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75 1878 - Australians Cricket 41 & 12-1 defeat MCC 33 & 19 1881 - 9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40.5 1882 - 10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44.5 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 Pineros Trelawney of the Wells premieres in London 1900 - Lord Roberts army fights the Vaal in South Africa 1902 - 27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8 1903 - 37th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75 1903 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam 1904 - NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants) 1905 - 30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8 1905 - Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima 1906 - 1st outlining of Gustav Mahlers 6th symphony, in Essen 1907 - Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco 1908 - Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. 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 1920 - Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR 1921 - After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan 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 1930 - The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public. 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 - Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11 1933 - Walt Disneys 3 Little Pigs released 32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1935 - Supreme Court declares FDRs Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional 1936 - RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage 1937 - Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936) 1937 - Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated 1938 - Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of English season, earliest to do so 1940 - British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) 1940 - World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops. 1941 - Allied troops begin evacuating Crete 1941 - FDR declares state of emergency due to Germanys 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 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is shot & mortally wounded in Prague in in Operation Anthropoid 1943 - French resistance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1943 - US forbids 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 Baseball Player Hank Greenberg 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)
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