TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: MAY 27
1647 Achsah Young becomes the first woman known to be executed as a witch in Massachusetts.
1668 Three colonists are expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists.
1679 Habeaus Corpus Act (strengthening person’s right to challenge unlawful arrest & imprisonment) passes in England
1703 Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great
1813 Americans capture Fort George, Canada.
1907 The Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco.
1921 After 84 years of British control, Afghánistán achieves sovereignty
1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape
1933 In the U.S., the Federal Securities Act was signed. The act required the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1935 The Supreme Court declares President Franklin Roosevelt’s National Recovery Act unconstitutional.
1937 The Golden Gate Bridge is opened
1941 The German battleship Bismarck is sunk by British naval and air forces.
1942 Czech resistance fighters kill Reinhard Heydrich
1960 A military coup overthrows the democratic government of Turkey.
1969 Construction begins on Walt Disney World in Florida.
1987 Jim & Tammy Bakker appear on “Nightline” after PTL scandal
1988 The U.S. Senate ratified the INF treaty. The INF pact was the first arms-control agreement since the 1972 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) to receive Senate approval.
1996 After a year and a half of bloodshed, Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with the leader of the Chechen rebels and negotiated a cease-fire.
1997 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while President Clinton was in office.
1998 Michael Fortier was sentenced to 12 years in prison for not warning anyone about the plot to bomb an Oklahoma City federal building.
1999 The international war crimes tribunal indicts Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for war atrocities.
2006 A massive earthquake devastates parts of Java, Indonesia
2010 Universal Studios reopened its backlot. The area had been destroyed by a fire two years before.
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
