1901<\/strong> – The Edison Storage Battery Company was organized.<\/p>\n 1907<\/strong> – The Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco.<\/p>\n 1919<\/strong> – A\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Navy seaplane completed the first transatlantic flight.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – Bronze figures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were erected in Hannibal,\u00a0MO.<\/p>\n 1929<\/strong> – Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Anne Spencer Murrow were married.<\/p>\n 1931<\/strong> – Piccard and Knipfer made the first flight into the stratosphere, by balloon.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – Walt Disney’s “Three Little Pigs” was first released. 1933<\/strong> – In the\u00a0U.S., the Federal Securities Act was signed. The act required the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court declared that President Franklin Roosevelt’s National Industrial Recovery Act was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong> – In\u00a0California, the Golden Gate Bridge was opened to pedestrian traffic. The bridge connected San Francisco and Marin County.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt\u00a0proclaimed an “unlimited national emergency” amid rising world tensions.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – The German battleship\u00a0Bismarck<\/i>\u00a0was sunk by British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – German General Erwin Rommel began a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0General MacArthur landed on Biak Island in New Guinea.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – A military coup overthrew the democratic government of Turkey.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – Indian Prime Minister Jawaharla Nehru died.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – After 48 years as coach of the Chicago Bears, George Halas retired.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> – Construction of Walt Disney World began in\u00a0Florida.<\/p>\n 1977<\/strong> – George H. Willig was fined for scaling the World Trade Center in New York on May 26. He was fined $1.10.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – Japan announced the elimination of tariffs on 96 industrial goods.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – In Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Mel Fisher recovered a jar that contained 2,300 emeralds from the Spanish ship\u00a0Atocha<\/i>. The ship sank in the 17th century.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia. He had been in exile for two decades.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – In Charlottesville, VA, Christopher Reeve was paralyzed after being thrown from his horse during a jumping event.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – Russian President Boris Yeltsin negotiated a cease-fire to the war in Chechnya in his first meeting with the leader of the rebels.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while President Clinton was in office.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Charlie Sheen was admitted to a hospital in Los Angeles for a drug overdose.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Michael Fortier was sentenced to 12 years in prison for not warning anyone about the plot to bomb an Oklahoma City federal building.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – In The Hague, Netherlands, a war crimes tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic and four others for atrocities in Kosovo. It was the first time that a sitting head of state had been charged with such a crime.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong> – Universal Studios reopened its backlot. The area had been destroyed by a fire two years before.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park\u00a0and meet\u00a0Hibakusha<\/i>.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the\u00a0Patapsco Valley\u00a0causing one death and destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in\u00a0Ellicott City and\u00a0causing cars to overturn.<\/p>\n History of 27 May 1901 – The Edison Storage Battery Company was organized. 1907 – The Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco. 1919 – A\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Navy seaplane completed the first transatlantic flight. 1926 – Bronze figures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were erected in Hannibal,\u00a0MO. 1929 – Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Anne Spencer Murrow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[742,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-27-may","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-1hd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24204,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911\/revisions\/24204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDisney movies, music, and books<\/p>\nCelebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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