Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!
Another day filled with history through the years. The first public execution of a witch took place in Massachusetts. Peter the Great founded the city of St. Petersburg. The Bubonic Plague struck San Francisco. The Chrysler Building and Golden Gate Bridge opened on this day, while construction to Florida's Disney World began. The British and French scrambled to evacuate Dunkirk, while in 1941, a couple of ships were sunk and made world news. Australian voted to extend rights to aboriginals. It was agreed that Hong Kong would return under Chinese jurisdiction, and the first sitting head of a nation was indicted for crimes against humanity. Interesting stuff. Here's a closer look:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bismarck-sunk-by-royal-navy
May 27, 1941: Bismarck sunk by Royal Navy
On May 27, 1941, the British navy sinks the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic near France. The German death toll was more than 2,000.
On February 14, 1939, the 823-foot Bismarck was launched at Hamburg. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler hoped that the state-of-the-art battleship would herald the rebirth of the German surface battle fleet. However, after the outbreak of war, Britain closely guarded ocean routes from Germany to the Atlantic Ocean, and only U-boats moved freely through the war zone.
In May 1941, the order was given for the Bismarck to break out into the Atlantic. Once in the safety of the open ocean, the battleship would be almost impossible to track down, all the while wreaking havoc on Allied convoys to Britain. Learning of its movement, Britain sent almost the entire British Home Fleet in pursuit. On May 24, the British battle cruiser Hood and battleship Prince of Wales intercepted it near Iceland. In a ferocious battle, the Hood exploded and sank, and all but three of the 1,421 crewmen were killed. The Bismarck escaped, but because it was leaking fuel it fled for occupied France. On May 26, it was sighted and crippled by British aircraft, and on May 27 three British warships descended on the Bismarck and finished it off.
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
1647 - The first recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in Massachusetts when Achsah Young, a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a "witch." It was the first recorded American execution of a "witch."
1660 - Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire
1668 - Three colonists were expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists.
1679 - Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in UK
1689 - Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland
1703 - St Petersburg (what would eventually become Leningrad during the days of the USSR, and which had once again become St. Petersburg) founded by Czar 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 captured Fort 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 found guilty of poisoning
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 - Czar 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
1901 - The Edison Storage Battery Company was organized.
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 - First outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
1907 - The Bubonic Plague broke 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
1917 - Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
1918 - Battle of Aisne
1919 - A U.S. Navy seaplane completed the first transatlantic flight in eleven days.
1920 - Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1921 - Afghanistan gains sovereignty
1921 - After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty
1926 - Bronze figures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were erected in Hannibal, MO.
1927 - Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1927 - Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president
1929 - Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Anne Spencer Murrow were married.
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 - First full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va
1931 - Piccard and Knipfer made the first flight into the stratosphere, by balloon.
1933 - Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs" was first released. Disney movies, music and books
1933 - In the U.S., the Federal Securities Act was signed. The act required the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 - Austrian communist party banned
1933 - Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
1933 - Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11
1935 - Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional
1935 - The U.S. Supreme Court declared that President Franklin Roosevelt's National Industrial Recovery Act was unconstitutional.
1936 - RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage. It first arrived in France four hours later.
1937 - Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936)
1937 - Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, dedicated and opened to pedestrian traffic. The bridge connected San Francisco and Marin County.
1938 - Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of Eng season, earliest to do so
1940 - British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
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 Kreta
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt declared a state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor, saying there was an "unlimited national emergency" amid rising world tensions.
1941 - British ships and air force sank the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of France, resulting in the loss of 2,300 lives.
1941 - FDR declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
1942 - Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
1942 - Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
1942 - German General Erwin Rommel began a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.
1942 - Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
1942 - Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded in Prague
1943 - French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris
1943 - US forbid racial discrimination in war industry
1944 - U.S. General MacArthur and the Allies landed on Biak Island in New Guinea and 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
1949 - 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 - The F-4 Phantom II first flight.
1960 - First use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney)
1960 - A military coup overthrew the democratic government of Turkey.
1960 - Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt
1960 - Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
1961 - First black light is sold
1961 - Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup II in Florence
1961 - Pres Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon
1961 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' ½"
1963 - Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya
1964 - "From Russia With Love" premieres in US
1964 - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharla Nehru died.
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 - Nuclear submarine USS Scorpion is lost
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.
1968 - After 48 years as coach of the Chicago Bears, George Halas retired.
1969 - Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida.
1969 - Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV
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
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
1975 - 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 - George H. Willig was fined for scaling the World Trade Center in New York on May 26. He was fined $1.10 - one cent for each of the 110 stories that he climbed.
1979 - Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop
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
1981 - Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no
1981 - Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin NYC for 5 perfs
1982 - Japan announced the elimination of tariffs on 96 industrial goods.
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 - Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day
1985 - In Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997.
1986 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1986 - Norway Showcase groundbreaking
1986 - Mel Fisher recovered a jar that contained 2,300 emeralds from the Spanish ship Atocha. The ship sank in the 17th century
1986 - President Reagan orders 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 - The U.S. Senate ratified the INF treaty, eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles. The INF pact was the first arms-control agreement since the 1972 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) to receive Senate approval.
1990 - 74th Indianapolis 500 runs
1990 - Caesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen pres of Colombia
1990 - Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
1991 - Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
1993 - Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 HRs
1993 - Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
1994 - Nobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile.
1994 - Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show
1994 - Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters
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.
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 in his first meeting with the leader of the rebels.
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while President Clinton was in office.
1997 - First all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
1997 - Arie Luyendyk wins his 2nd Indianapolis 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
1997 - 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.
1998 - Charlie Sheen was admitted to a hospital in Los Angeles for a drug overdose.
1999 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicted Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo. It was the first time that a sitting head of state had been charged with such a crime.
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.
2010 - Universal Studios reopened its backlot. The area had been destroyed by a fire two years before.
2012 - A NATO airstrike kills a family of eight, including six children, in Afghanistan
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/events/may/27
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bismarck-sunk-by-royal-navy
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/may27.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/May-27
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