This Day in History for 27th May brought to you by HistoryOrb gc Historical Events Events 1 - 100 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 UK 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 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) Russian Tsar Peter the Great 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 Eng 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 Kreta 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 - Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot & mortally wounded in Prague 1943 - French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 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 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) 1957 - Torontos CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canadas first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n Roll music format. 1958 - Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rocks Central HS 1958 - Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed) 1958 - The F-4 Phantom II first flight. 1960 - 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney) 1960 - Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catchers mitt 1 2 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 244 1332 - Ibn Khaldun, Tunis, Arab historian/sociologist (Muqaddimah) 1519 - Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594) 1576 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649) 1595 - Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer 1601 - Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1648) 1623 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687) 1626 - William II, prince of Orange/stadholder 1651 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729) 1652 - Elisabeth C Liselotte van de Palts, German/French duchess of Orleans 1738 - Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer 1738 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796) 1756 - Maximilian I Jozef, King of Bavaria 1774 - Francis Beaufort, admiral/hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale) 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire (B & O railroad) 1799 - Jacques-Francois-Fromental-Elle Halevy, [Elie Levy], composer 1806 - Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer 1815 - Henry Parkes, British journalist/premier of Australia 1818 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons 1819 - Julia Ward Howe, US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic) 1820 - Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904) 1822 - Henry Wylde, composer 1822 - Josef Joachim Raff, composer 1823 - John Gray Foster, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874 1827 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892) 1836 - Edwin Gray Lee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1870 1836 - Jay Gould, US railroad executive, financier Folk Hero of the American Old West Wild Bill Hickok (1837) 1837 - Wild Bill Hickok, [James Butler], cowboy/scout 1837 - Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1912 1837 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887) 1839 - Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (Roccaverdina) 1849 - Blind Tom Bethune, pianist/composer 1850 - Thomas Neill Cream, Glasgow, Scotland, serial killer (Lambeth poisoner), (d. 1892) 1852 - Billy Barnes, cricketer (England all-rounder 1880-90) 1854 - Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium) 1860 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941) 1861 - Victoria E Matthews, educator 1864 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (d. 1938) 1867 - Arnold Bennett, Hanley Staffordshire, English novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon) 1870 - Lionel Palairet, cricketer (elegant England bat in the Golden Age) 1871 - Georges-Henri Rouault, Fr expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre) 1874 - Dustin Farnum, US, actor (Squaw Man, Virginian) [or 1870] 1874 - Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Eros Thanatos) 1876 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (d. 1945) 1879 - Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine, Lets Dance) 1879 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962) 1881 - Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer 1884 - Bax Brod, composer 1887 - Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends) 1887 - Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts) 1887 - Frank Woolley, cricketer (long-running England left-arm all-rounder) 1888 - Louis Durey, composer 1891 - Claude Adonai Champagne, composer 1892 - Sara Heyblom, Dutch actress (Pygmalion, Fietsen naar de Maan) 1893 - Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentarian (d. 2005) 1894 - Dashiell Hammett, Maryland, detective novelist (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon) 1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961) 1895 - Marij Kogoj, composer 1897 - John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist (Radar, Nobel 1951) 1900 - Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933) 1902 - Celius Dougherty, composer 1904 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997) 1906 - Robert Shone, director-general (NEDC) 1907 - Felix de Nobel, Dutch orchestra leader 1907 - Rachel Louise Carson, biologist/ecologist/writer (Silent Spring) 1908 - Alex Brown, snooker player 1908 - Harold Rome, composer (Fanny, Pins & Needles) 1908 - Melle J Oldeboerrigter, [Melle], Dutch painter/cartoonist 1909 - Isador Goodman, composer 1910 - Daniel Greenway, CEO (Daniel Greenway & Sons) 1911 - Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn) 38th VP (1965-69), 1968 Pres candidate 1911 - Torolf Elster, Norwegian journalist/writer (Frihet och demokrati) 1911 - Vincent Price, St Louis MO, actor (House on Haunted Hill, Fly, Laura) 1911 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician (d. 2007) 1912 - John Cheever, writer (Wapshot Chronicle) Golfer Sam Snead (1912) 1912 - Sam Snead, Hot Springs VA, PGA golfer (PGA-1963, 65, 67, 70, 72, 73) 1912 - Terry Moore, American baseball player (d. 1995) 1913 - Arthur Mervyn Stockwood, bishop (Southwark England) 1913 - Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German cartoonist/painter 1914 - Hugh Le Caine, composer 1914 - Lord Erroll of Hale, British minister 1914 - Rose Stainton, CEO (British Airways) 1915 - Herman Wouk, NYC, novelist (Caine Mutiny, Winds of War) 1915 - Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini) 1915 - Louise Annand-MacFarquhar, Lanarkshire, Scotland, painter and film-maker (At the Museum), (d. 2012) 1916 - Norman Griggs, VP (Building Society Association) 1918 - Yasuhiro Nakasone, premier of Japan (1982-87) 1919 - Kam Fong, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Hawaii Five-0) 1920 - Michael Webster, CEO (DRG) 1920 - William Crawshay, Lord-Lt of Gwent 1921 - Caryl Chessman, kidnapper who got death penalty (1960) 1921 - Redd Stewart, Ashland City Tn, guitarist/pianist (Pee Wee King Show) Actor Christopher Lee (1922) 1922 - Christopher Lee, Westminster, London, English actor (The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, The Hobbit film trilogy) 1922 - Sidney AK Keyes, English poet (Iron Laurel) 1923 - Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State (1973-77)/Nobel Peace Prize (1973) 1923 - Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff 1923 - Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur 1923 - Ingeborg Inge Morath, Graz Austria, Magnum photographer and wife of Arthur Miller 1925 - John Moberly, diplomat 1925 - Tony Hillerman, American writer 1926 - Gordon Leggat, cricketer (open batsman for NZ in 9 Tests 1953-56) 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 8 of 8 1916 - Naval commander Karl Donitz (24) weds nurse Ingeborg Weber 1929 - Aviator Charles Lindbergh (27) weds author Anne Morrow (22) in Englewood, New Jersey 1994 - Radio personality Rush Limbaugh weds wife #3, Marta Fitzgerald 1995 - Friends actress Lisa Kudrow (31) weds French advertising executive Michel Stern (37) in Malibu 1996 - Crosby, Stills & Nash Rock and Roll Hall of Famer guitarist Stephen Stills (51) weds recording-studio manager Kristen Hathaway (30) at the Ritz-Carlton in Palm Beach, Florida 2005 - Amazing Race 6 winner Kendra Bentley (25) weds Freddy Holliday (34) in Bal Harbour, Florida 2006 - The Lineup anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle (37) weds Idesign host Eric Villency at the 5-star Sandy Lane Resort in St. James, Barbados 2012 - Actress Cynthia Nixon (46) weds education activist Christine Marinoni in New York City Famous Divorces Divorces 1 - 1 of 1 2003 - Actress Angelina Jolie (26) divorces actor Billy Bob Thornton (47) due to irreconcilable differences Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 117 366 - Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326) 866 - Ordono I, King of Asturia (850-66), dies 927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria (b. 864 or 865) 1039 - Dirk III Hierosolymita, Count of Holland, dies 1178 - Godfried van Rhenen, bishop of Utrecht, dies 1444 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404) 1508 - Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan, dies at 55 1525 - Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader 1541 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473) beheaded for treason in Tower of London by Henry VIII 1549 - Lijsbeth Dirksdr, Fries antabaptist, drowns 1564 - Jean Caulvin, [John Calvin], priest/church reformer, dies at 54 1569 - Francois de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies 1576 - Louis de Boisot, Dutch admiral, drowns at about 44 1580 - Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum, dies 1596 - Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies 1610 - François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578) 1615 - Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553) 1627 - Everhardus van Bronchorst, lawyer, dies at 73 1638 - Nicolas Forme, composer, dies at 71 Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza (1508) 1652 - Jacques Huyn, composer, dies at 39 1661 - Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53 1675 - Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613) 1690 - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer, dies at 63 1702 - Dominique Bouhours, French critic (b. 1628) 1707 - Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640) 1708 - Jacques Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 51 1768 - Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies 1781 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716) 1790 - Jeremiah Carlton, laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed & stayed there for next 70 yrs, dies at 89 1797 - Francois-Noal Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36 1831 - Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799) 1840 - Niccolo Paganini, composer/violinist, dies at 57 1855 - Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies 1863 - Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at 31 1876 - Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies 1878 - Carlo Marsili, composer, dies at 49 1887 - Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer, dies at 86 1896 - Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies 1896 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839) 1902 - Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet, dies Microbiologist Robert Koch (1910) 1910 - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies at 66 1914 - Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies 1916 - Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies 1918 - Henry Adams, US literature historian (Esther), dies at 80 1919 - Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social activist (b. 1848) 1925 - Ed McKeever, pres (Bkln Dodgers), dies of pneumonia 1926 - Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904) 1934 - Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam street hawker, dies 1939 - Joseph Roth, Austria journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies at 44 1941 - AH Borgesius, tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76 1947 - Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885) 1949 - Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY 1951 - Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies 1953 - Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (b. 1868) 1954 - Herzmanovsky-Orlando, writer, dies 1958 - Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46 1958 - Samuel Stritch, US cardinal/archbishop (Chicago), dies 1960 - Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy), dies at 65 1960 - George Zucco, actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Desire Me), dies at 74 1960 - James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (b. 1877) 1963 - Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered 1964 - Jawaharial Nehru, Independent Indias 1st PM, dies at 74 1967 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889) 1968 - Little Willie John, rocker, dies at 30 1969 - Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage), dies at 43 1970 - Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78 1971 - Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at 62 1975 - Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), dies at 53 1976 - Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80 1983 - Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, composer, dies at 67 1985 - Kay Campbell, actress (All My Children), dies at 80 1986 - Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Sour Dove), dies at 82 1986 - Ismail Raji al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921) 1987 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1891) 1988 - Florida Friebus, actress (Bob Newhart Show), dies of a stroke at 79 1988 - Melvin J Cy Oliver, US jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies at 77 1988 - Renato Salvatori, actor (Burn, Luna, 2 Women), dies 1989 - Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies 1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907) 1990 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (b. 1908) 1991 - Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88 1991 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904) 1992 - Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55 1992 - Glen White, dancer/actor (Graft, Camille), dies of AIDS at 42 1992 - John Myhers, director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at 70 1992 - Tony Big Tuna Accardo, mobster (St Valentines Day), dies at 86 1992 - Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890) 1993 - Jan Wiley, actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies 1993 - Willem P G Assmann, Dutch MP, dies at 85 1994 - Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87 1994 - Red Rodney, [Albino Red/The Red Arrow], bebop-trumpeter, dies at 66 1994 - Theo Swagemakers, portrait painter, dies at 95 1995 - C W Stubblefield, music promoter, dies at 64 1995 - Ulyses Simpson Kay, composer, dies at 78 1996 - Albert Pud Brown, clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 79 1996 - Ivan Sutton, concert Promotoer, dies at 82 1996 - Jack Massey, groundsman, dies at 85 2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British statesman (b. 1917) 2000 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921) 2000 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
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