|
- 0927 Battle of the Bosnian Highlands Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia
- 0927 Bulgaria's Symeon dies of a heart attack May 27 after building an empire that stretches from the Ionian to the Black Sea
- 1120 Richard III of Capua anointed as prince a fortnight before his untimely death.
- 1153 Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
- 1328 French king Philip VI Valois crowned
- 1328 Philip VI is crowned King of France.
- 1529 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
- 1647 Peter Stuyvesant was inaugurated as Director-General of New Netherland.
- 1647 The first recorded U S execution of a "witch" takes place in Massachusetts
- 1647 The first woman known to be executed as a witch, Achsah Young in Massachusetts
- 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
- 1703 St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
- 1703 Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
- 1796 James S McLean patents his piano
- 1798 The Battle of Oulart Hill occurs in Wexford, Ireland.
- 1812 South American Wars of Independence: In Bolivia, the battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fought against the Spanish army.
- 1813 American joint operations against Fort George, Canada
- 1813 War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
- 1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes first telegraph line
- 1849 The Great Hall of Euston station, London opened.
- 1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo IL destroyed by tornado
- 1854 Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed
- 1856 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning
- 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
- 1862 Battle of Hanover Court House VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
- 1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die
- 1863 Siege of Port Hudson LA
- 1864 Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop) VA
- 1878 Australia Cricket 41 & 12-1 defeat MCC 33 & 19
- 1883 Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
- 1883 Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow
- 1893 Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland
- 1895 Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy.
- 1896 255 people are killed when a twister strikes St Louis, Missouri and East St Louis, Illinois
- 1896 Bay District Race Track closes
- 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 incurring $2.9 billion in damages (1997USD).
- 1896 The first major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis MO); killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless
- 1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa
- 1904 National League record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, New York Giants)
- 1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
- 1907 A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
- 1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Fransisco
- 1908 Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din elected first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
- 1915 SS Aguila, a Yeoward Bros. ship, she was torpedoed by a German U-boat 47 miles south-west of the Smalls Lighthouse.
- 1917 Race riot in East St Louis IL, 1 black killed
- 1918 Battle of Aisne
- 1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster
- 1919 Navy NC-4 completes trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland to Lisbon, Portugal
- 1919 The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
- 1919 The fist transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
- 1920 Tatar ASSR is established in Russian SFSR
- 1921 After 84 years of British control, Afghánistán achieves sovereignty
- 1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
- 1929 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England
- 1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape
- 1930 The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
- 1931 Piccard & Knipfer make first flight into stratosphere, by balloon; first use of pressurized cabin in a balloon
- 1931 The first full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field VA
- 1933 Austrian communist party banned
- 1933 Federal Securities Act signed
- 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 Academy-Award-winning animated short The Three Little Pigs, is released by young animator Walt Disney
- 1933 The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.
- 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 Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
- 1935 New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
- 1936 The Queen Mary, sailing for the Cunard line, left England on its maiden voyage
- 1937 Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, dedicated
- 1937 In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
- 1938 Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of England season, earliest to do so
- 1939 DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
- 1940 British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
- 1940 World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knoechlein, is eventually hanged for war crimes.
- 1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta
- 1941 FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
- 1942 Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
- 1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians 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
- 1943 US forbids racial discrimination in war industry
- 1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
- 1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
- 1945 Visitor posting - May 27, 1945 Michael Barry Ponser born to Morris and Nora Ponser
- 1945 Visitor posting - Personal note: Karen Lynn Fink is born - USA
- 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
- 1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
- 1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Fransisco opens
- 1952 European Defense Community forms
- 1955 Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV
- 1956 French raid in Algiers
- 1957 Toronto's 1050 CHUM AM becomes Canada's first radio station to only broadcast top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
- 1958 Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
- 1958 The F-4 Phantom II flies for the first time.
- 1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
- 1960 In Turkey, a military coup removed President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
- 1960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
- 1961 Fiorentina wins first Europe Cup II in Florence
- 1961 President Kennedy announces US goal to reach the Moon
- 1961 The first "black light" is sold can disco be far ahead?
- 1963 Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.
- 1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected first prime minister of Kenya
- 1964 "From Russia With Love" premieres in US
- 1964 Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
- 1965 HMAS Sydney departs on first voyage to Vietnam with 1 RAR
- 1965 Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan
- 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - Sandie Shaw - Long Live Love
- 1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes
- 1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain
- 1967 Australians vote in favour 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 (CV-67) is christened by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
- 1968 the meeting of the Union Nationale des tudiants de France (national Union of the students of France), most outstanding of the events of May 1968, proceeds and gathers 30.000 to 50.000 people in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
- 1969 Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV
- 1969 Walt Disney World construction begins
- 1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
- 1971 23rd Walker Cup: Great Britain/Ireland 13-United States 11
- 1971 The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
- 1971 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
- 1975 Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2
- 1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges from Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
- 1977 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
- 1977 An Aeroflot plane crashes, killing 69 people.
- 1977 NYC fines George Willig 1¢ for each of 110 stories of the World Trade Center he climbed
- 1979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop
- 1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
- 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.
- 1981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
- 1981 Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris France
- 1983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress
- 1984 Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day
- 1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
- 1985 Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan
- 1986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking
- 1986 President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
- 1987 Jim & Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal
- 1987 Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
- 1988 Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles
- 1990 César Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia
- 1990 Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game
- 1990 Radical Democratic Party holds first political meetings in Moscow
- 1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
- 1992 Visitor posting - Colin Tully graced this earth with his birth - USA
- 1993 Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 homeruns
- 1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
- 1994 Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile
- 1994 Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show
- 1994 Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters
- 1994 Visitor posting - may 27 1994 sasha blouin was born
- 1994 Larry King ended his radio show
- 1994 Nobel Prize-winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia, ending two decades of exile
- 1994 Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35)
- 1994 The Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to his native Russia after 20 years of exile in the United States.
- 1995 Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman) is paralyzed after an accident during an equestrian event in Charlottesville, VA
- 1995 In Charlottesville, 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 in the war.
- 1997 Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract
- 1997 Major league revenue sharing begins, New York Yankees pay out most $28 million
- 1997 Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault
- 1997 The F5-strength Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
- 1997 The first all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
- 2004 Visitor posting - Dakota Hawke Hayden - birthday
- 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.
- 2008 Visitor posting - Mark realizes he is an idiot and Charna forgives him
- 2010 Another employee of Apple-linked Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn attempted to commit suicide Thursday by slashing his veins, Chinese state media said, following 11 self-inflicted deaths this year. The suicides have raised questions about conditions for millions of factory workers in China, especially at Foxconn, which manufactures Apple products, where labour activists say long hours, low pay and high pressure are the norm. - China
- 2010 The alleged leader of the Beltran Leyva drug trafficking organization, Pedro Roberto Velazquez Amador, alias "La Pina," was killed in a shootout with federal forces in northern Mexico, The Mayor of Cancun, Greg Sanchez, was detained by federal police Tuesday at the airport on suspicions of money laundering and allegedly helping protect the Beltran Leyva and Los Zetas cartel. - Mexico
More historical events added daily - keep checking back