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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 02:13:28 -0500
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Only 218 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Ancestor Honor Day
On The Way To Today... May 27th
1647 - The first recorded American execution of a "witch" took place
in Massachusetts.
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.
1703 - Czar Peter the Great founded the city of St. Petersburg as
Russia's new capital.
1883 - Czar Alexander III was crowned in Moscow.
1896 - 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis and East
St. Louis, Illinois.
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.
1926 - The people of Hannibal, Missouri erected the first statue of
literary characters. The bronze figures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer
were hoisted above a red granite base.
1936 - The maiden voyage of the ship, "RMS Queen Mary" began. The huge
vessel set sail from Southampton, England headed for the New York
Harbor in the U.S.
1937 - Ceremonies marking the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge were
held in San Francisco, California. The bridge has been called one of
the greatest engineering marvels in the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1955 - The census clock at the Department of Commerce Building in
Washington, DC recorded a U.S. population of 165,000,000 at 8:51 a.m.
Those clever people at the DOC figured out that this meant that a baby
was being born every eight seconds in the USA.
1957 - Senator Theodore F. Green of Rhode Island became the oldest
person to serve in the U.S. Congress. At the time, Sen. Green was 89
years, 7 months and 26 days - young.
1986 - Mel Fisher found a jar. The jar contained 2,300 emeralds and
was recovered from the Spanish ship "Atocha", which sank in the 17th
1993 - British Prime Minister John Major sacked Chancellor of the
Exchequer Norman Lamont after he was blamed for a bitter two-year
recession and a humiliating currency crisis.
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.
1998 - Michael Fortier, the government's star witness in the Oklahoma
City bombing case, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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