Today in History
May 27
Peter the Great
Georges Eekhoud
Rachel Louise Carson
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| 1063 Harold of Wessex began to conquer Wales | ||
| 1199 Pope Innocent III imposed the first direct papal taxation of Clergy. | ||
| 1199 Death of Minamoto Yoritomo, first Shogun of Japan; his followers retained control of government but fought for supremacy | ||
| 1281 Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge | ||
| 1299 Peace was negotiated between Genoa and Venice, ending their war (since 1261) to control trade with the Byzantine Empire. |
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| 1328 French king Philip VI Valois crowned | ||
| 1529 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake | ||
| 1626 William II, prince of Orange/stadholder was born | ||
| 1660 Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire | ||
| 1679 The English parliament passed the Habeas Corpus Act, protecting citizens against false arrest and imprisonment. The main principles of the act were later incorporated into the U.S. Constitution. | ||
| 1689 Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland | ||
| 1703 Czar Peter the Great founded the city of St. Petersburg as Russia's new capital. | ||
| 1738 Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov | ||
| 1756 Maximilian I Jozef, King of Bavaria was born | ||
| 1796 James S McLean patents his piano | ||
| 1813 US forces occupied Fort St George, and the British abandoned the entire Niagara frontier | Peter the Great |
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| 1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line | ||
| 1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo Illinois destroyed by tornado | ||
| 1854 Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium) was born | ||
| 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi took Palermo in Sicily in his struggle to unite Italy. | ||
| 1862 Battle of Hanover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station) | 7 | |
| 1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die | ||
| 1883 Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow | ||
| 1887 Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends) was born | ||
| 1893 Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland | ||
| 1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector | ||
| 1896 Tornado hit St Louis, killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless | ||
| 1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in S Africa |
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| 1903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam | ||
| 1905 In the Russo-Japanese war, Japan's fleet destroyed the Russians at the battle of Tsushima Strait. Of the Russian fleet's 45 ships, only 12 reached safety. | ||
| 1906 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen | ||
| 1907 Rachel Louise Carson, biologist/ecologist/writer (Silent Spring) was born | ||
| 1911 Torolf Elster, Norwegian journalist/writer (Frihet och demokrati) was born | ||
| 1916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx | ||
| 1918 Yasuhiro Nakasone, premier of Japan (1982-87) was born | ||
| 1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days | ||
| 1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster | Georges Eekhoud |
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| 1920 Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR | ||
| 1921 Afghanistan gains sovereignty | ||
| 1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war | ||
| 1927 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president | ||
| 1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape | ||
| 1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va | ||
| 1931 Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon | ||
| 1933 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago | ||
| 1933 Federal Securities Act signed | ||
| 1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage | ||
| 1937 San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge opened and 200,000 people crossed it on its first day. It took four years, four months and 22 days to erect. | ||
| 1940 British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) | ||
| 1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta | ||
| 1941 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt reacted to the German navy's sinking of the merchant vessel Robin Moor by declaring a state of unlimited national emergency. | ||
| 1941 In World War II, the British ships Dorsetshire, King George V and Rodney, and aircraft from the carrier Ark Royal, sank the German battleship Bismarck in the Atlantic. |
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| 1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered | ||
| 1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim | ||
| 1942 Top German Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich was shot and mortally wounded in Prague. His death June 4 triggered savage reprisals against the populations of Moravia and Bohemia. | ||
| 1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris | ||
| 1943 US forbid racial discrimination in war industry | ||
| 1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks) | ||
| 1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China | ||
| 1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid | ||
| 1949 Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane | ||
| 1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin | ||
| 1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens | ||
| 1951 The Chinese Communists forced the Dalai Lama, Tibet's god king, to surrender control of his region's foreign affairs and its army to Beijing. | Rachel Louise Carson |
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| 1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens | ||
| 1952 European Defense Community forms | ||
| 1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections | ||
| 1956 French raid in Algiers | ||
| 1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed) | ||
| 1963 Formerly jailed pro-independence leader Jomo Kenyatta was elected first prime minister of self-governing Kenya, becoming state president on independence from Britain the following year. | ||
| 1964 Jawalharlal Nehru, Indian statesman and first prime minister of independent India, died at 74. | ||
| 1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes | ||
| 1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain | ||
| 1968 Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost | ||
| 1969 Walt Disney World construction begins | ||
| 1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I | ||
| 1974 French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing took office, naming Jacques Chirac as prime minister. | ||
| 1975 Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 | ||
| 1977 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582 | ||
| 1979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop | ||
| 1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed | ||
| 1980 Dr. Milton Obote, deposed as Uganda's president by Idi Amin in 1971, returned home from exile. He regained the presidency, only to be overthrown again in 1985. | ||
| 1981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol | ||
| 1981 Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no | ||
| 1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 | ||
| 1985 Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan | ||
| 1986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking | ||
| 1990 74th Indianapolis 500 runs | ||
| 1990 Cesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen president of Colombia | ||
| 1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die | ||
| 1993 A suspected Mafia car bomb killed five people and badly damaged an art collection in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. | ||
| 1994 Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia to an emotional welcome after 20 years in exile. The first action of the former dissident writer on reaching Russian soil was to salute the millions who died in Soviet prison camps. | ||
| 1994 Larry King ended his radio show | ||
| 1995 Ukraine and a consortium of Western firms signed a memorandum to plan by 2000 the closing of the Chernobyl nuclear power station, site of the world's worst nuclear accident nine years before. | ||
| 1996 Russia signed a deal with the leader of the Chechen rebels to end fighting in the breakaway region from June 1. | ||
| 1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole | ||
| 1997 Russian Pres Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO | ||
| 1997 A string of powerful tornadoes hit central Texas leaving at least 32 people dead and wide swaths of devastation. The storms were the worst to strike Texas for a decade |
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