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1703 - St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great

1930 - The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.

1940 - British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII

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.

Today's Historical Events

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927 - Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Simeon I of Bulgaria is defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia.
1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1281 - Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge
1328 - French King Philip VI Valois crowned
1529 - 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
1660 - Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire
1679 - Habeaus Corpus Act (strengthening person's right to challenge unlawful arrest & imprisonment) passes in England
1689 - Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as Grand Pensionary of Holland
1692 - Court of Oyer and Terminer ("to hear and determine") established by Governor of Massachusetts to hear accussations of witchcraft

Russian Tsar Peter the Great1703 - St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great
1738 - Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov
1796 - James S McLean patents his piano
1798 - The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
1813 - Americans capture Ft George, Canada
1849 - The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
1850 - Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois, destroyed by tornado
1854 - Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed
1856 - Doctor William Palmer (s the Rugeley Poisoner ) found guilty of poisoning, Stafford, England
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), Virginia
1878 - 6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75
1878 - Australians Cricket 41 & 12-1 defeat MCC 33 & 19
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 - Tsar Alexander III crowned in Moscow
1893 - Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland
1895 - British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
1896 - Bay District Race Track closes
1896 - Tornado hit St Louis, killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless
1898 - Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the Wells" premieres in London
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: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75
1903 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam
1904 - NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants)
1905 - 30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8
1905 - Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
1906 - 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
1907 - Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
1908 - Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
1916 - Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx
1916 - President Wilson addresses the League to Enforce Peace, founded in 1915, and gives public support to the idea of a league of nations
1917 - Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
1918 - Battle of Aisne
1919 - 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
1920 - Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1921 - After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty
1927 - Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1927 - Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president
1929 - 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England
1930 - Richard Drew invents masking tape
1930 - The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1931 - 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va
1931 - Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon
1933 - Austrian communist party banned
1933 - Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
1933 - Federal Securities Act signed
1933 - Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11
1933 - Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released

32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt1935 - Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional
1936 - RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage
1937 - Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936)
1937 - Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated
1938 - Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of English season, earliest to do so
1940 - British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII
1940 - World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops.
1941 - Allied troops begin evacuating Crete
1941 - FDR declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
1941 - German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
1942 - Dorie Miller awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor

Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler1942 - Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
1942 - Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi "Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" is shot & mortally wounded in Prague in in Operation Anthropoid
1943 - French resistance 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
1944 - Jean-Paul Sartres' "Huis Clos" premieres in Paris
1948 - Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid
1948 - Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians
1949 - Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day"
1949 - Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane

Baseball Player Hank Greenberg1949 - Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin
1950 - "Arms & the Girl" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 134 performances
1950 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
1951 - Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1951 - Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens
1952 - European Defense Community forms
1953 - Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
1955 - Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0
1955 - Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1956 - French raid in Algiers
1956 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 - Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
1958 - Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
1958 - Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1958 - Maiden flight of the F-4 Phantom II
1960 - 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney)
1960 - Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt
1960 - Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
1961 - 1st black light is sold
1961 - Fiorentina of Italy win 1st European Cup Winner's Cup against Glasgow Rangers 4-2 in Florence (2nd leg)
1961 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' ½"
1962 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

Kenyan Prime Minister and President Jomo Kenyatta1963 - Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st Prime Minister of Kenya
1964 - Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
1965 - Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan
1966 - 55th German F-104 Starfighter crashes
1966 - 6 French fighters crash above Spain
1967 - "Sherry!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 65 performances
1967 - Australians vote in favor 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.
1968 - 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3
1968 - NL awards Montreal & SD major league franchises
1968 - The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.

American Football Player, Coach, Owner, and Pioneer George Halas1968 - George Halas retires from coaching, finishing with 318 regular-season wins and 6 NFL titles
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
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - 23rd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 13-11
1971 - UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
1972 - "Applause" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 900 performances
1972 - "Jimmy Castor Bunch's Troglodyte" (Cave Man) hits #6
1972 - Indianapolis 500: Mark Donohue wins in 3:04:23.851 (262.262 km/h)
1973 - Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6
1974 - Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning
1975 - Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
1975 - Stanley Cup: Phila Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2

Musician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartney1975 - Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
1976 - "Something's Afoot" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 61 performances
1977 - 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
1977 - New York City fines George Willig 1 cent for each of 110 stories he climbed
1979 - Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1979 - Pope John Paul II ordains John J O'Connor as a bishop
1979 - Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins in 3:08:47.950 (255.723 km/h)
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

264th Pope John Paul II1981 - Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but umpire says no
1981 - Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - New owners purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, & get approval to move them to NJ Meadowlands (Devils)
1982 - "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin NYC for 5 perfs
1982 - John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies & gets approval to move to NJ
1983 - Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress
1984 - Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest" premieres in NYC
1984 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1984 - Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day
1984 - Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins in 3:03:21.638 (263.308 km/h)
1985 - Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997

US President & Actor Ronald Reagan1985 - Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan
1986 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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
1987 - Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young & Sutton)
1988 - Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles
1990 - 74th Indianapolis 500 runs
1990 - Caesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen pres 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 1st political meetings in Moscow
1991 - Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die

LPGA Golfer Pat Bradley1993 - Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 HRs
1993 - Mafia bombs Uffizi Museum in Florence, killing 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
1994 - Larry King ended his radio show
1995 - In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1997 - 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
1997 - Indianapolis 500: Arie Luyendyk wins his 2nd Indy 500
1997 - Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract
1997 - Major league revenue sharing begins, NY Yanks pay out most $28M
1997 - Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexual assault

Russian President Boris Yeltsin1997 - Russian Pres Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
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.
2001 - Indianapolis 500: Hélio Castroneves wins in 3:31:54.180 (227.841 km/h)
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.
2007 - Indianapolis 500: Dario Franchitti wins in 2:44:03.5608 (244.257 km/h)
2009 - South Africa enters the global recession; the first recession for South Africa in 17 years
2012 - A NATO airstrike kills a family of eight, including six children, in Afghanistan
2012 - Indianapolis 500: Dario Franchitti wins in 2:58.51.2532 (269.934 km/h)
2013 - 75 people are killed and 200 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq
2013 - The largest flag ever made at 5 tons with 44 miles of thread is unveiled in Romania
2014 - The director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde calls for "tougher regulation and tighter supervision" of banking sector

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