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What happened in history on this day: May 27?
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- 866 - King Ordoño I of Asturia (850-66) dies.
- 1039 - Dirk III Hierosolymita Count of Holland, dies.
- 1178 - Godfried van Rhenen bishop of Utrecht, dies.
- 1281 - Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge.
- 1328 - French king Philip VI Valois crowned.
- 1332 - Birth of Ibn Khaldun Tunis, Arab historian/sociologist (Muqaddimah).
- 1508 - Ludovico Sforza [il Moro] Italian duke of Milan, dies at age 55.
- 1525 - Thomas Münzer, German vicar/boer leader, executed in Mühlhausen.
- 1529 - 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake.
- 1541 - Margaretha duchess of Salisbury, beheaded.
- 1549 - Lijsbeth Dirksdr Fries antabaptist, drowns.
- 1564 - Jean Caulvin [John Calvin] priest/church reformer, dies at age 54.
- 1569 - François de Coligny French general (Jarnac), dies.
- 1576 - Louis de Boisot Dutch Admiral, drowns at about age 44.
- 1580 - Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum dies.
- 1595 - Birth of Benedictus Carpzovius [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer.
- 1596 - Tibaldi II Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies.
- 1626 - Birth of William II prince of Orange/stadholder.
- 1627 - Everhardus van Bronchorst lawyer, dies at age 73.
- 1629 - The Peace of Lübeck is signed between Denmark and the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1638 - Nicolas Forme composer, dies at age 71.
- 1647 - Achsah Young becomes first woman known to be executed as a witch (Massachusetts).
- 1652 - Birth of Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van de Palts German/French duchess of Orleans.
- 1652 - Jacques Huyn composer, dies at age 39.
- 1660 - Sweden signs a peace treaty with Denmark at Copenhagen, giving back Bornholm and Trondheim to Denmark.
- 1661 - Archibald Campbell Scottish politician, beheaded at about age 53.
- 1679 - Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in England.
- 1688 - Sir John Narbrough of England dies of fever on the frigate Foresight, off the Bahama Islands.
- 1689 - Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland.
- 1690 - Giovanni Legrenzi Italian composer, dies at age 63.
- 1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg. The first stone is laid on the island in the mouth of the River Neva.
- 1738 - Turkish troops occupy Orsova and Ochakov.
- 1756 - Birth of Maximilian I Jozef King of Bavaria.
- 1768 - Johann M Fleischmann German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies.
- 1794 - Birth of Cornelius Vanderbilt; millionaire (B and O railroad).
- 1796 - James S McLean patents his piano.
- 1797 - Death of François-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf at age 36; French utopian socialist.
- 1813 - Americans capture Fort George, Canada.
- 1815 - Birth of Henry Parkes; British journalist/premier of Australia.
- 1819 - Birth of Julia Ward Howe; US author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic).
- 1823 - Birth of John Gray Foster; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1874).
- 1836 - Birth of Edwin Gray Lee; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1870).
- 1837 - Birth of Robert Frederick Hoke; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1912).
- 1839 - Birth of Luigi Capuana; Sicilian author/critic (Roccaverdina).
- 1850 - Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois destroyed by tornado.
- 1852 - Birth of Billy Barnes; cricket player (England all-rounder 1880-90).
- 1854 - Birth of Georges Eekhoud; Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium).
- 1855 - Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russian writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies.
- 1862 - Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia (Slash Church, Peake's Station).
- 1863 - Edward Payson Chapin, USA Brigadier General, dies at age 31.
- 1863 - CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River, Georgia, 18 die.
- 1867 - Birth of Arnold Bennett in England; novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon).
- 1868 - Birth of William Hartman Woodin in Berwick, Pennsylvania, USA; US Treasury Secretary.
- 1870 - Birth of Lionel Palairet; cricket player (elegant England bat in the Golden Age).
- 1871 - Birth of Georges-Henri Rouault; French expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre).
- 1873 - First Preakness Stakes won by G Barbee aboard Survivor (2:43).
- 1874 - Birth of Dustin Farnum; US actor (Squaw Man, Virginian).
- 1874 - Birth of Richard von Schaukal in Austria; poet/writer (Eros Thanatos).
- 1878 - 6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75.
- 1878 - Australia Cricket 41 and 12-1 defeat MCC 33 and 19.
- 1879 - Birth of Lucile Watson; actress (Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine, Let's Dance).
- 1881 - 9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40.5.
- 1882 - 10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44.5.
- 1883 - Czar Alexander III is crowned in Moscow, Russia.
- 1887 - Birth of Emiel van der Straeten; Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends).
- 1887 - Birth of Erich Kuttner; German journalist/historian (Vorwärts).
- 1887 - Birth of Frank Woolley; cricket player (long-running England left-arm all-rounder).
- 1887 - Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer, dies at age 86.
- 1892 - Birth of Sara Heyblom; Dutch actress (Pygmalion, Fietsen naar de Maan).
- 1893 - Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland.
- 1894 - Birth of Dashiell Hammett in Maryland, USA; author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon).
- 1894 - Birth of Louis-Ferdinand Céline in France; novelist (Journey to End of Night).
- 1895 - British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector.
- 1896 - First major tornado to strike urban US (Saint Louis and East Saint Louis, Missouri); kills 255 and leaves thousands homeless.
- 1897 - Birth of John Douglas Cockroft; English physicist (Radar, Nobel Prize 1951).
- 1900 - Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa.
- 1902 - 27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8.
- 1903 - 37th Belmont Stakes: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75.
- 1905 - 30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8.
- 1905 - In Tsushima Strait, Japanese Navy sinks and damages most of Russian Baltic fleet.
- 1906 - Birth of Robert Shone; director-general (NEDC).
- 1907 - Birth of Rachel Louise Carson; biologist/ecologist/writer (Silent Spring).
- 1907 - Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco, California, USA.
- 1908 - Birth of Harold Rome; composer (Fanny, Pins and Needles).
- 1910 - Birth of Daniel Greenway; CEO (Daniel Greenway and Sons).
- 1910 - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (Tuberculosis, Cholera, Nobel Prize), dies.
- 1911 - Birth of Hubert Humphrey; US Senator (Democrat-Minnesota), 38th Vice President (1965-69), 1969 Presidential candidate.
- 1911 - Birth of Torolf Elster; Norwegian journalist/writer (Frihet och demokrati).
- 1911 - Birth of Vincent Price in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actor (House on Haunted Hill, The House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, Scream and Scream Again, The Fly).
- 1912 - Birth of John Cheever; writer (Wapshot Chronicle).
- 1912 - Birth of Sam Snead in Hot Springs, Virginia, USA; PGA golfer (Masters 1949, 1952, 1954; PGA-1963, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1973).
- 1913 - Birth of Arthur Mervyn Stockwood; bishop (Southwark England).
- 1914 - Birth of Rose Stainton; CEO (British Airways).
- 1915 - Birth of Herman Wouk in New York City, New York, USA; novelist (The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War).
- 1915 - Birth of Mario del Monaco; Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini).
- 1916 - Birth of Norman Griggs; Vice President (Building Society Association).
- 1916 - Joseph S Galliéni, General/Military Governor of Paris, dies.
- 1917 - Race riot in East Saint Louis, Illinois, USA; one black killed.
- 1918 - Birth of Yasuhiro Nakasone; Japanese Prime Minister (1982-87).
- 1918 - Henry Adams, US literature historian (Esther), dies at age 80.
- 1919 - The US Navy NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon, Portugal, after completing the first trans-Atlantic flight (11 days).
- 1919 - Birth of Kam Fong in Honolulu, Hawaii; actor (Chin Ho Kelley - Hawaii Five-O).
- 1920 - Birth of Michael Webster; CEO (DRG).
- 1920 - Birth of William Crawshay; Lord-Lieutenant of Gwent.
- 1920 - Tatar ASSR is established in Russian SFSR.
- 1921 - After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty.
- 1921 - Birth of Caryl Chessman; kidnapper who got the death penalty (1960).
- 1921 - Birth of Redd Stewart in Ashland City, Tennessee, USA; guitarist/pianist (Pee Wee King Show).
- 1922 - Birth of Christopher Lee in London, England; actor (Hound of the Baskervilles).
- 1922 - Birth of Sidney Keyes; English poet (Iron Laurel).
- 1923 - Birth of Henry Kissinger; US Secretary of State (1973-77), Nobel Peace Prize (1973).
- 1923 - Birth of Lord Freyberg; British Colonel of General Staff.
- 1925 - Birth of Mai Zetterling in Sweden; actress (Only two Can Play, Quartet).
- 1925 - Ed McKeever, president (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies of pneumonia.
- 1926 - Birth of Gordon Leggat; cricket player (open batsman for New Zealand in 9 Tests 1953-56).
- 1927 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Model T automobile and begins retooling plants to make Model A's.
- 1927 - Birth of Bryan Cowgill; deputy chairman (Mirror Group).
- 1927 - Birth of Jan Blokker; Dutch writer/journalist (VPRO, People's Newspaper).
- 1927 - Japanese military intervenes in Chinese civil war.
- 1927 - Thomas Masaryk is elected Czechoslovakian president.
- 1928 - Birth of Thea Musgrave Barnton in Midlothian, Scotland; composer (Mary Queen of Scots).
- 1929 - Second Ryder Cup: Britain over Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England.
- 1930 - The Chrysler Building opens to the public in New York. At 1,046 feet tall, it is the tallest man-made structure in the world.
- 1930 - Birth of John Barth; novelist (The Sot-Weed Factor).
- 1930 - Birth of William S Sessions in Arkansas, USA; director of FBI.
- 1930 - Richard Drew invents masking tape.
- 1931 - First full-scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, in Langley Field, Virginia, USA.
- 1931 - Birth of Florence Sharples; director (British YWCA).
- 1931 - Birth of John Chapple; British chief of General Staff.
- 1931 - Birth of Kenny Price in Florence, Kentucky, USA; country singer ("Midwestern Hayride", Hee Haw).
- 1931 - Belgian scientist Auguste Picard launches hydrogen gas-filled balloon carrying himself and an assistant in a 300-pound, 82-inch diameter aluminum gondola. The balloon rises to a record 51,775 feet, and lands safely.
- 1933 - Austrian communist party banned.
- 1933 - (to November 12) The Century of Progress Exposition centennial fair is held in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1933 - Federal Securities Act signed.
- 1933 - Trailing 11-3, New York Yankees score 12 runs in 8th inning and beat Chicago White Sox 15-11.
- 1933 - Walt Disney's animated short film Three Little Pigs released to theaters.
- 1934 - Birth of Harlan [Jay] Ellison; American sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Doomsman, Babylon 5).
- 1935 - Birth of Lee Meriwether in Los Angeles, California, USA; Miss America/actress (Time Tunnel, Barnaby Jones).
- 1935 - Birth of Ramsey Lewis in Chicago, Illinois, USA; pop jazz artist ("Hang on Sloopy").
- 1935 - US Supreme Court declares President Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Act unconstitutional.
- 1936 - Birth of Benjamin Bathurst; vice chief of British Defense Staff.
- 1936 - Birth of Eric Anderson; headmaster (Eton).
- 1936 - Birth of Lord Holme; president of British Liberal Party.
- 1936 - Birth of Louis Gossett Junior in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (An Officer and a Gentleman, The Deep).
- 1936 - RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton, England, for New York on its maiden voyage, with 1805 passengers, 1101 crew.
- 1937 - Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936).
- 1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge officially opens to pedestrian traffic. The bridge is the world's longest span to date, between San Francisco and Marin County.
- 1938 - Donald Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of England season, earliest to do so.
- 1938 - Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Norway enact a declaration on neutrality.
- 1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero, "Batman".
- 1939 - Birth of Don Williams in Floydada, Texas, USA; country singer ("I Believe in You").
- 1939 - Birth of Earl Cairns; CEO (S G Warburg and Co).
- 1939 - Joseph Roth, Austrian journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies at age 44.
- 1940 - Evacuation of Allied troops begins, from Dunkirk, France, across the English Channel.
- 1940 - Belgium surrenders to Germany.
- 1941 - AH Borgesius, tutor/experimenter/amateur astronomer, dies at age 76.
- 1941 - Allied troops begin evacuating Crete.
- 1941 - Birth of Adriaan Venema; Dutch journalist/author (Mussert).
- 1941 - Birth of Allan Carr in Chicago, Illinois, USA; director (Grease, Happiest Millionaire).
- 1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor.
- 1941 - (1040 hours) German battleship Bismarck sinks, in the North Atlantic near France, either from British shells and torpedoes, or from the German sailors scuttling it. 115 survive from a crew of over 2200.
- 1941 - Günther Lütjens, German Admiral (Bismarck), dies.
- 1942 - Birth of Kent Bede Bernard in Trinidad; 4X400 runner (Olympics-bronze-1964).
- 1942 - Birth of Roger Freeman; British minister of transport.
- 1942 - Dorie Miller, awarded Navy Cross medal for deeds at Pearl Harbor.
- 1942 - Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim.
- 1942 - Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik, part of a Czechoslovak commando team from England, make an assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. Heydrich is wounded by grenade shrapnel, and later dies of the wound.
- 1943 - Birth of Bruce Weitz in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA; actor (Hill Street Blues, Death of a Centerfold).
- 1943 - Birth of Cilla Black in Liverpool, England; rock vocalist ("You're My World").
- 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 - Birth of Christopher J Dodd; American politician (Governor/Senator-Democrat-Connecticut, 1981-).
- 1944 - Japanese advance in Hangkhou, China.
- 1945 - Birth of Bruce Cockburn in Ottawa, Canada; folk rock vocalist (Waterwalker).
- 1947 - Birth of Peter DeFazio; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Oregon).
- 1948 - Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid.
- 1948 - Birth of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov; cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-8, T-14, TM-7).
- 1948 - Birth of Anna E "Annelies" Balhan; Dutch revue-artist/actress (Sweet Charity).
- 1948 - Birth of Pete Sears; bassist (Jefferson Starship).
- 1948 - Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians.
- 1948 - RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's animated and live-action feature film Melody Time to theaters in the USA. It includes the animated films Once Upon a Wintertime, Bumble Boogie, Johnny Appleseed, Little Toot, Blame it on the Samba (with Donald Duck), and Pecos Bill.
- 1949 - Cleveland Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day".
- 1949 - Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at age 55 in New York.
- 1950 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens.
- 1951 - Birth of Beau Kazer in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actor (Brock - The Young and the Restless).
- 1951 - Birth of Norma Jean Almodovar in Binghamton, New York, USA; auto-biographer (Cop to Call Girl).
- 1951 - Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing.
- 1952 - European Defense Community forms.
- 1954 - Birth of Catherine Carr; US breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1972).
- 1955 - Birth of Bill Malley in Oakland, California, USA; Nike golfer (1991 El Paso Open-30th).
- 1955 - Birth of Graeme "Jock" Edwards; cricket player (beefy New Zealand lefty batsman late 1970s).
- 1955 - Boston Red Sox player Norm Zauchin gets ten RBIs, beating Washington Senators 16-0.
- 1955 - Red Buttons Show last airs on NBC-TV.
- 1956 - Birth of Lisa Niemi in Houston, Texas, USA: actress (Dirty Dancing, Will Rodgers Follies).
- 1956 - Birth of Nick Lowery; NFL kicker (New York Jets).
- 1956 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests).
- 1957 - Toronto's 1050 CHUM AM becomes Canada's first radio station to only broadcast a top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
- 1957 - Birth of Bruce Furniss; US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1976).
- 1957 - Birth of Siouxsie Sioux [Janet Susan Dallion] in Kent, England; punk rock vocalist (Siouxsie and the Bandshee - "Wild Thing").
- 1958 - The F-4 Phantom II first flies.
- 1958 - Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at age 46.
- 1958 - Birth of Linnea Quigley in Davenport, Iowa, USA; actress (Night of the Demons, Virgin High).
- 1958 - Birth of Neil Finn; rocker (Split Enz - "I Got You", Crowded House).
- 1958 - Samuel Stritch, US cardinal/archbishop (Chicago), dies.
- 1958 - Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed).
- 1960 - Baltimore Orioles' manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt (used by Clint Courtney).
- 1960 - Birth of Ray Armsetad in Kirksville, Missouri, USA; 4X400 runner (Olympics-gold-1984).
- 1960 - Birth of Vinodhan John; cricket pace bowler (Sri Lankan in six Tests 1983-84).
- 1960 - Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy), dies at age 65.
- 1960 - George Zucco, actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Desire Me), dies at age 74.
- 1960 - Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey.
- 1961 - First black light is sold.
- 1961 - Birth of Cathy Silvers in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Jenny - Happy Days, Foley Square).
- 1961 - Birth of Jill Sterkel; US swimmer (Olympics-bronze-1976, 1984, 1988).
- 1961 - Birth of John Lugbill in Wauseon, Ohio, USA; canoist/kayaker (Olympics-1992).
- 1961 - Birth of Peri Gilpin in Waco, Texas, USA; actor (Roz Doyle - Frasier).
- 1961 - Fiorentina wins first Europe Cup II in Florence.
- 1961 - Ralph Boston of the US sets long jump record at 27 feet 0.5 inches.
- 1962 - Birth of Mariangela D'Abbraccio in Naples, Italy; TV actress (Passioni).
- 1962 - Birth of Meg Parsont; personality (David Letterman Show).
- 1962 - Birth of Ravi Shastri; cricket player (Indian SLA all-rounder 1981-92).
- 1962 - Birth of Ray Borner; Australian basketball center (Olympics-1984, 1988, 1992, 1996).
- 1962 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open.
- 1963 - Three New Jersey businessmen purchase the NHL Colorado Rockies, and get approval to move them to the New Jersey Meadowlands (New Jersey Devils).
- 1963 - Jomo Kenyatta elected first prime minister of Kenya.
- 1963 - Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered.
- 1964 - James Bond film From Russia With Love premieres in theaters in the USA.
- 1964 - Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna, Austria.
- 1964 - Jawaharial Nehru, independent India's first Prime Minister, dies at age 74.
- 1965 - Birth of Jacob Brumfield in Bogalusa, Louisiana, USA; outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays).
- 1965 - Birth of Pat Cash in Australia; tennis player (Wimbledon 1987).
- 1965 - Birth of Todd Bridges in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (Diff'rent Strokes, Fish).
- 1965 - Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan, Italy.
- 1966 - 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes.
- 1966 - Six French fighters crash above Spain.
- 1966 - Birth of Eric Leckner; NBA center (Detroit Pistons).
- 1966 - Birth of John Jaha in Portland, Oregon, USA; infielder (Milwaukee Brewers).
- 1966 - Birth of Ray Sheppard in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada; NHL right wing (Florida Panthers).
- 1966 - Birth of Sean Kinney; US rock drummer (Alice in Chains - "We Die Young").
- 1967 - Birth of Chin Yang; jockey.
- 1967 - Birth of Doug West; NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves).
- 1967 - Birth of George McCloud; NBA forward/guard (Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns).
- 1967 - Birth of Paul Gascoigne; soccer player.
- 1967 - Birth of Alice Ruth Bolton in Lucedale, Mississippi, USA; WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs/Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1968 - 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, New York Mets beat New York Yankees 4-3.
- 1968 - Birth of Cedric Smith; NFL running back (Washington Redskins, Arizona Cardinals).
- 1968 - Birth of Frank Thomas "Big Hurt"; first baseman (Chicago White Sox, 1993 Most Valuable Player).
- 1968 - Birth of Jeff Bagwell in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; infielder (Houston Astros).
- 1968 - Birth of John Connelly in Toledo, Ohio, USA; Nike golfer (1991 New Hampshire Open).
- 1968 - Major League Baseball announces expansion to San Diego and Montreal, Canada, first outside the confines of the United States.
- 1969 - Birth of Chip Beake; WLAF administrative assistant (Barcelona Dragons).
- 1969 - Birth of Dondré T Whitfield in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Another World, All My Children).
- 1969 - Birth of François Letourneau in Saint Jerome, Québec, Canada; canoeist (Olympics-1996).
- 1969 - Birth of Lesley Tashlin in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 100 metre hurdler (Olympics-1996).
- 1969 - Birth of Todd Hundley in Martinsville, Virginia, USA; catcher (New York Mets).
- 1969 - Birth of Travis Williams; NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets).
- 1969 - Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Christopher Pike - Star Trek - "The Cage"), dies at age 43.
- 1969 - Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV.
- 1969 - Walt Disney World construction begins.
- 1970 - Birth of Liz Earley in Saint Catharines, Ontario, Canada; LPGA golfer (1995 Thailand Open).
- 1970 - Birth of Michael Blackburn; Australian laser yachter (Olympics-1996).
- 1970 - Birth of Todd Collins; linebacker (New England Patriots).
- 1970 - British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I.
- 1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 1971 - 23rd Walker Cup: Great Britain/Ireland 13-United States 11.
- 1971 - Birth of Corey Beck; NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets).
- 1971 - Birth of Ferdino Hernandez; soccer player (FC Utrecht).
- 1971 - Birth of Monika Schnarre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actress (Ivana - The Bold and the Beautiful).
- 1971 - Birth of Scott Szeredy; NFL/WLAF kicker/punter (Chiefs, Barcelona Dragons).
- 1971 - Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at age 62.
- 1971 - UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship.
- 1972 - Birth of Antonio Freeman; NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31).
- 1972 - Birth of Karen Hecox; US 1500 metre runner.
- 1972 - Birth of Troy Sienkiewicz; NFL tackle/guard (San Diego Chargers).
- 1973 - Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6.
- 1974 - Alain Poher ceases serving as Provisional President of France.
- 1974 - Birth of Danny Wuerffel; NFL quarterback (New Orleans Saints).
- 1974 - Pittsburgh Pirates' Ken Brett no-hits San Diego Padres until 9th inning.
- 1975 - Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), dies in Chicago, Illinois, at age 53.
- 1975 - NHL Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2.
- 1975 - Worst motor vehicle disaster in United Kingdom; bus full of elderly women plunges from Dibble's Bridge in Yorkshire, killing 38.
- 1976 - Birth of Darrell Russell; defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders).
- 1976 - Birth of Richard Park in Seoul Korea; NHL center (Pittsburgh Penguins).
- 1976 - Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo - All in the Family), dies at age 80.
- 1977 - Two Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582.
- 1977 - New York City fines George Willig 1 cent for each of 110 stories of the World Trade Center he climbed.
- 1979 - Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic.
- 1979 - Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop.
- 1979 - Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins the race for the first time, and car owner Roger Penske for the second time.
- 1980 - Birth of Jessica Deglau in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; swimmer, 200 metre butterfly (Olympics-1996).
- 1980 - In Gwangju, Republic of Korea, government forces kill hundreds of civilian militias that had seized control of the city.
- 1981 - Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris, France.
- 1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 1982 - John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies and gets approval to move to New Jersey.
- 1982 - Tottenham Hotspur win the FA Cup beating QPR 1-0 in a replay.
- 1982 - ABC airs the final episodes of TV shows Mork and Mindy and Bosom Buddies.
- 1983 - Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of US Congress.
- 1984 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic.
- 1984 - Manuela Manleeva wins three singles tennis matches in one day.
- 1985 - Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
- 1985 - Inaugural bands parade for US President Ronald Reagan.
- 1985 - Kay Campbell, actress (All My Children), dies at age 80.
- 1986 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island.
- 1986 - Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Sour Dove), dies at age 82.
- 1986 - In Japan, Enix releases the Dragon Quest video game for the Famicom. The game was written by Yuji Horii.
- 1986 - US President Ronald Reagan orders two Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled.
- 1987 - Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna, Austria.
- 1987 - New York Yankees' Phil Niekro is third pitcher to make 700th start.
- 1987 - Death of John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891).
- 1988 - Death of Ernst Ruska, German physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics 1986, invented electronic microscope), in West Berlin, Germany (born 1906).
- 1988 - Florida Friebus, American actress (Bob Newhart Show), dies of a stroke at age 79 (born 1909).
- 1988 - Renato Salvatori, actor (Burn, Luna, Two Women), dies.
- 1988 - US Senate ratifies a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles.
- 1988 - NBC airs the final episode of TV show Punky Brewster.
- 1989 - Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, First Blood), dies.
- 1990 - 74th Indianapolis 500 runs; Arie Luyendyk wins with an average speed of 185.981 mph.
- 1990 - César Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia.
- 1990 - Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game.
- 1990 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic.
- 1990 - Radical Democratic Party holds first political meetings in Moscow, Russia.
- 1991 - Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at age 88.
- 1991 - Death of Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (born 1904).
- 1992 - Daniël Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at age 55.
- 1992 - Glen White, dancer/actor (Graft, Camille), dies of AIDS at age 42.
- 1992 - John Myhers, director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at age 70.
- 1993 - Dale Murphy ends baseball career at 398 homeruns.
- 1993 - Jan Wiley, actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies.
- 1993 - A car bomb at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence kills five; the Mafia is suspected.
- 1994 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia after 20 years in exile.
- 1994 - Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show.
- 1994 - Universal releases the film The Flintstones to theaters.
- 1994 - Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at age 87.
- 1995 - C W Stubblefield, music promoter, dies at age 64.
- 1995 - On Sakhalin Island, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurs. About 1,989 people killed, about 750 injured.
- 1996 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.
- 1997 - First all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole.
- 1997 - Major League Baseball revenue sharing begins, New York Yankees pay out most $28 million.
- 1997 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO.
- 1997 - The second-deadliest tornado of the 1990s hits in Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
- 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 MiloÜevic and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
- 2000 - Death of Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (born 1921).
- 2000 - Death of Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (born 1912).
- 2005 - Dreamworks releases the film Madagascar to theaters.
- 2006 - Derek Jeter becomes the eighth player in New York Yankees history to collect 2,000 career hits.
- 2006 - The first demonstration for gay rights in Moscow is broken up by the police.
- 2007 - Dario Franchitti wins the 2007 Indianapolis 500.
- 2007 - Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) is taken off the air after the government of Venezuela refuses to renew its license. This action results in protests.
- 2007 - Death of Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (born 1967).
- 2007 - Death of Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (born 1919).
- 2008 - A Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas in the USA reports prices of single-family homes dropped a record 14.4 percent in March from a year earlier. The US Commerce Department reports sales of new homes in April were down 42 percent from a year ago, the largest year-over-year drop in nearly 27 years.
- 2008 - Nepal's constituent assembly in Kathmandu votes 597 to 4 to abolish 240 years of royal rule, becoming a democratic republic nation.
- 2009 - In Rome's Stadio Olimpico in Italy, Barcelona defeats Manchester United of England to win the Champions League of soccer.
- 2009 - (to May 31) Heritage Numismatic Auctions conducts Central States Signature Auction. Some highlights:
- US 1804 $1 Class III, PR-58 PCGS: US$2.3 million;
- US 1870-S $1, EF-40 PCGS: US$503,125;
- US 1794 $1, MS-61 NGC: US$503,125;
- US 1876-CC 20-cent, MS-66 PCGS: US$460,000.
- 2009 - North Korea announces it has abandoned the truce that ended the Korean war, calling South Korea's decision to join a US-led initiative to search ships for nuclear weapons a "declaration of war".
- 2009 - Alice Munro wins the Man Booker international prize for her short story fiction writing.
- 2010 - Pacaya volcano in Guatemala begins erupting lava, rocks and debris, forcing over 1600 to flee, and closing the country's main airport.
- 2010 - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is sworn into office, despite being wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur.
- 2013 - Valeant Pharmaceuticals of Canada announces deal to acquire Bausch and Lomb of the USA for US$8.7 billion.
- 2015 - Seven senior officials of FIFA are arrested in a Swiss hotel, part of a US FBI investigation and Department of Justice naming of 14 people indicted for racketeering, wirefraud, paying bribes.
- 2017 - Death of Gregg Allman, American musician (born 1947).
- 2019 - U.S. President Donald Trump, during an official state visit to Japan, is the first foreign leader to meet with Japanese emperor Naruhito.
- 2020 - The Chinese National People's Congress votes in favour of national security legislation that criminalizes "secession", "subversion", "terrorism" and foreign interference in Hong Kong; the legislation grants sweeping powers to the Chinese central government to suppress the Hong Kong democracy movement, including banning activist groups and curtailing civil liberties. The U.S. government responds by declaring Hong Kong is "no longer autonomous" under the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act.
- 2020 - The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 passes 100,000.
- 2021 - Death of Poul Schlüter, 22nd Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1929).
- 2022 - Premiere of season four of Stranger Things TV show in the USA.
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