1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France
1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg
1813 - War of 1812 : In Canada , United States forces capture Fort George[?]
1883 - Alexander III becomes Tsar of Russia
1895 - Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for "somdomy "
1901 - In New Jersey , the Edison Storage Battery Company[?] is founded.
1905 - Russo-Japanese War : Battle of Tsushima - Start of the naval climax of the war.
1907 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California
1921 - Afghanistan becomes independent of the United Kingdom
1924 - The Music Corporation of America (MCA) is founded
1923 - The first 24 hours of Le Mans race ends
1927 - Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As .
1933 - New Deal : The Federal Securities Act[?] is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission
1933 - Disney releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs[?] , with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1935 - New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional.
1936 - The RMS Queen Mary begins her maiden voyage
1937 - In California , the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County .
1940 - World War II : 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment[?] unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk . The German commander, Captain Fritz Knochlein[?] , is eventually hanged for war crimes .
1941 - World War II : President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency."
1941 - World War II: German pocket battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300.
1960 - In Turkey , General Cemal Gürsel[?] leads a military coup d'etat removing President Celal Bayar[?] and the rest of the democratic government
1965 - Vietnam War : United States warships begin bombardments of Viet Cong targest within South Vietnam for the first time
1972 - President of the Soviet Union[?] Leonid Brezhnev and President of the United States Richard Nixon sing the SALT I agreements
1995 - In Charlottesville, Virginia , actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1996 - First Chechnya War : Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.
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 War Crimes Tribunal[?] in The Hague , Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milosevic and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo .
1738 - Nathaniel Gorham , American politican (+1796)
1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt , entrepreneur (+ 1877)
1819 - Julia Ward Howe , composer ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic[?] ") (+ 1910 )
1836 - Jay Gould , American financier (+ 1892)
1837 - Wild Bill Hickock[?] , gunfighter (+ 1876 )
1871 - Georges Rouault[?] , painter and graphic artist (+ 1958 )
1877 or 1878 - Isadora Duncan , free form and interpretative dancer (+ 1927 )
1879 - Karl Bühler[?] , psychologist (+ 1963 )
1884 - Max Brod , author (+ 1968 )
1888 - Louis Durey , composer, member of Les Six (+ 1979 )
1894 - Dashiell Hammett , author of detective novels (+1961)
1907 - Rachel Carson , ecologist (+ 1964 )
1911 - Teddy Kollek[?] , mayor of Jerusalem
1911 - Vincent Price , actor (+ 1993)
1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey , former Vice President of the United States (+1978)
1912 - Sam Snead , golf champion (+ 2002)
1912 - John Cheever[?] , author (+ 1982 )
1915 - Herman Wouk[?] writer
1917 - Yasuhiro Nakasone , former Prime Minister of Japan
1921 - Caryl Chessman[?] , murderer (+ 1960 )
1922 - Christopher Lee , actor
1923 - Henry Kissinger , American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973
1923 - Sumner Redstone , entrepreneur
1925 - Tony Hillerman[?] , mystery writer
1934 - Harlan Ellison , science fiction author
1936 - Louis Gossett Jr.[?] , actor
1937 - Allan Carr[?] , producer, writer (+ 1999 )
1943 - Cilla Black , singer
1945 - Bruce Cockburn , musician
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux[?] , musician ("Siouxsie and the Banshees ")
1958 - Neil Finn , New Zealand singer and songwriter
1958 - Wayne Williams , Atlanta, Georgia child murderer
1970 - Joseph Fiennes , actor
1971 - Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes , singer (+ 2002 )
1975 - Jamie Oliver , chef (the "Naked Chef[?] ")
927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria[?]
1564 - John Calvin , religious reformer
1661 - Archibald Campbell[?] , Marquess of Argyll, Scottish Covenanter
1707 - Marquise de Montespan[?] , mistress of the French King Louis XIV
1831 - Jedediah Smith , explorer
1840 - Niccolò Paganini , violinist, composer
1910 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch , German bacteriologist
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich , Nazi official
1960 - James Montgomery Flagg , illustrator
1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru , Indian politician
2000 - Maurice Richard , ice hockey player
2003 - Luciano Berio , composer
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May 26 -- May 28 -- April 27 -- June 27 -- listing of all days
January , February , March , April , May , June , July ,
August , September , October , November , December
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