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May 27 Events in History - May 27 Birthdays - May 27 Deaths
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May 27, 2006 Java, Indonesia suffers a 6.3 magnitue earthquake, killing more than 6,000 May 27, 1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole May 27, 1997 Arie Luyendyk wins his 2nd Indianapolis 500 May 27, 1997 Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract May 27, 1997 Major league revenue sharing begins, New York Yanks pay out most $28M May 27, 1997 Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault May 27, 1997 Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO May 27, 1994 Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile May 27, 1994 Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show May 27, 1994 Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters May 27, 1994 Larry King ended his radio show May 27, 1994 Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35) May 27, 1993 Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 HRs May 27, 1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6 May 27, 1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die May 27, 1990 74th Indianapolis 500 runs May 27, 1990 Cesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia May 27, 1990 Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game May 27, 1990 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic May 27, 1990 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow May 27, 1988 Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles May 27, 1987 Jim and Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal May 27, 1987 Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna May 27, 1987 Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young and Sutton) May 27, 1986 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island May 27, 1986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking May 27, 1986 Prest Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled May 27, 1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 May 27, 1985 Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan May 27, 1984 Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest," premieres in New York City May 27, 1984 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic May 27, 1984 Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day May 27, 1983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress May 27, 1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin New York City for 5 performances May 27, 1982 John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies and gets approval to move to NJ May 27, 1981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol May 27, 1981 Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no May 27, 1981 Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris May 27, 1981 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. May 27, 1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed May 27, 1979 Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic May 27, 1979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop May 27, 1977 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582 May 27, 1977 New York City fines George Willig 1 cents for each of 110 stories he climbed May 27, 1976 "Something's Afoot" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 61 performances May 27, 1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus and Mars" May 27, 1975 Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2 May 27, 1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 May 27, 1974 Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning May 27, 1973 Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6 May 27, 1972 "Applause" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 900 performances May 27, 1972 "Jimmy Castor Bunch's Troglodyte" (Cave Man) hits #6 May 27, 1971 23rd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 13-11 May 27, 1971 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship May 27, 1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I May 27, 1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. May 27, 1969 Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV May 27, 1969 Walt Disney World construction begins May 27, 1968 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3 May 27, 1968 NL awards Montreal and SD major league franchises May 27, 1968 Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost May 27, 1967 "Sherry!" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 65 performances May 27, 1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes May 27, 1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain May 27, 1965 Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan May 27, 1964 "From Russia With Love" premieres in U.S. May 27, 1964 Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna May 27, 1963 3 New Jersey businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, and get approval to move them to New Jersey Meadowlands (Devils) May 27, 1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya May 27, 1962 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open May 27, 1961 1st black light is sold May 27, 1961 Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup II in Florence May 27, 1961 Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' " May 27, 1960 Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt May 27, 1960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey May 27, 1958 Ernest Green and 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS May 27, 1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed) May 27, 1956 French raid in Algiers May 27, 1956 U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) May 27, 1955 Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0 May 27, 1955 Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV May 27, 1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections May 27, 1952 European Defense Community forms May 27, 1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing May 27, 1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Francisco opens May 27, 1950 "Arms and the Girl" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 134 performances May 27, 1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens May 27, 1949 Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day" May 27, 1949 Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane May 27, 1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin May 27, 1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid May 27, 1948 Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians May 27, 1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks) May 27, 1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou, China May 27, 1944 Jean-Paul Sartres "Huis Clos," premieres in Paris May 27, 1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris May 27, 1943 U.S. forbid racial discrimination in war industry May 27, 1942 Dorie Miller, awarded Navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor May 27, 1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered May 27, 1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim May 27, 1942 Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded in Prague May 27, 1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta May 27, 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor May 27, 1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force May 27, 1940 British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) May 27, 1938 Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of Eng season, earliest to do so May 27, 1937 Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936) May 27, 1937 Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, dedicated May 27, 1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for New York on maiden voyage May 27, 1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional May 27, 1933 Austrian Communist Party banned May 27, 1933 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago May 27, 1933 Federal Securities Act signed May 27, 1933 Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th and beat White Sox 15-11 May 27, 1933 Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released May 27, 1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field, Virginia May 27, 1931 Piccard and Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon May 27, 1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape May 27, 1929 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England May 27, 1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war May 27, 1927 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president May 27, 1921 After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty May 27, 1920 Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR May 27, 1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; U.S. Navy flying boat takes 11 days May 27, 1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster May 27, 1917 Race riot in East St. Louis Illinois, 1 black killed May 27, 1916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx May 27, 1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco May 27, 1906 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen May 27, 1905 30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8 May 27, 1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima May 27, 1904 NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, New York Giants) May 27, 1903 37th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75 May 27, 1903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam May 27, 1902 27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8 May 27, 1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa May 27, 1898 Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the 'Wells'," premieres in London May 27, 1896 Bay District Race Track closes May 27, 1896 Tornado hit St. Louis, killing 255 and leaving thousands homeless May 27, 1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector May 27, 1893 Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland May 27, 1883 Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow May 27, 1882 10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44 May 27, 1881 9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40 May 27, 1878 6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75 May 27, 1878 Australians Cricket 41 and 12-1 defeat MCC 33 and 19 May 27, 1864 Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia May 27, 1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die May 27, 1863 Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana May 27, 1862 Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia (Slash Church, Peake's Station) May 27, 1856 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning May 27, 1854 Marine Telegraph from Ft. Point to San Francisco completed May 27, 1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois destroyed by tornado May 27, 1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line May 27, 1813 Americans capture Ft. George, Canada May 27, 1796 James S. McLean patents his piano May 27, 1738 Turkish troops occupy Orsova and Ochakov May 27, 1703 St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great May 27, 1689 Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland May 27, 1679 Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in UK May 27, 1660 Denmark and Sweden sign ceasefire May 27, 1529 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake May 27, 1328 French king Philip VI Valois crowned May 27, 1281 Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge |