Events927 - Battle of the Bosnian Highlands
Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeated by
King Tomislav of Croatia1120 -
Richard III of Capua anointed as prince a fortnight before his untimely death.1153 -
Malcolm IV becomes King of
Scotland.1328 -
Philip VI is crowned King of
France.
1647 -
Peter Stuyvesant was inaugurated as
Director-General of
New Netherland.
1703 -
Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of
Saint Petersburg.
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 -
War of 1812: In
Canada,
American forces capture
Fort George.
1849 - The Great Hall of
Euston station,
London opened.
1860 -
Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on
Palermo,
Sicily, as part of the
Italian Unification.
1883 -
Alexander III is crowned
Tsar of
Russia.
1895 -
Oscar Wilde is sent to prison 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 incurring $2.9 billion in damages (1997USD).
1905 -
Russo-Japanese War: The
Battle of Tsushima begins.
1907 - A
Bubonic plague outbreak begins in
San Francisco, California.
1908 - Maulana
Hakeem Noor-ud-Din elected first
Khalifa of
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community1919 - The
NC-4 aircraft arrives in
Lisbon after completing the first
transatlantic flight.
1927 - The
Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the
Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make
Ford Model A's.
1930 - The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall
Chrysler Building in
New York (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.
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).
1937 - In
California, the
Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between
San Francisco and
Marin County.
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 -
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 -
World War II:
U.S. President 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:
Operation Anthropoid - assassination of
Reinhard Heydrich in
Prague.
1957 -
Toronto's 1050
CHUM AM becomes
Canada's first radio station to only broadcast top 40
Rock n' Roll music format.
1958 - The
F-4 Phantom II flies for the first time.
1960 - In
Turkey, a
military coup removed President
Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
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.
1964 -
Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.
1965 -
Vietnam War:
United States warships begin bombardments of
National Liberation Front targets within
South Vietnam for the first time.
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 Étudiants 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.
1971 - The
Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in
West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near
Wuppertal.
1977 - An
Aeroflot plane
crashes, killing 69 people.
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.
1994 - The
Soviet dissident
Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to his native
Russia after 20 years of exile in the
United States.
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 - The
F5-strength
Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of
Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.1997 - The
U.S. Supreme Court rules that
Paula Jones can pursue her sex 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 Milošević and four others for
war crimes and
crimes against humanity committed in
Kosovo.
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.
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