WillDekkard
05-27-2010, 05:05 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 27th
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* 893 Simeon I of Bulgaria crowned emperor of the first Bulgarian empire
* 927 Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Croatian army, led by King Tomislav, defeats the Bulgarian Army.
* 927 Simeon the Great, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies.
* 1120 Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
* 1328 Philip VI is crowned King of France.
* 1703 Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
* 1798 The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
* 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.
* 1895 Oscar Wilde is imprisoned for sodomy.
* 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.
* 1908 Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din is elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
* 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 The 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 Ιtudiants 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 The Dibble's Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 32 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.
* 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 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 Miloević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
* 2005 Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.
* 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.
* 2009 FC Barcelona wins the Champions League final against Manchester United and secures the treble. This is the first time a Spanish team has ever achieved this.
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- May 27th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 893 Simeon I of Bulgaria crowned emperor of the first Bulgarian empire
* 927 Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Croatian army, led by King Tomislav, defeats the Bulgarian Army.
* 927 Simeon the Great, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies.
* 1120 Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
* 1328 Philip VI is crowned King of France.
* 1703 Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
* 1798 The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
* 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.
* 1895 Oscar Wilde is imprisoned for sodomy.
* 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.
* 1908 Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din is elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
* 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 The 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 Ιtudiants 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 The Dibble's Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 32 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.
* 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 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 Miloević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
* 2005 Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.
* 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.
* 2009 FC Barcelona wins the Champions League final against Manchester United and secures the treble. This is the first time a Spanish team has ever achieved this.
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