This Day in History for May 27th:
1647 -- Achsah Young, a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a "witch." It was the first recorded American execution of a "witch."
1668 -- Three colonists were expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists.
1703 -- St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great.
1796 -- James S McLean patents his piano
1850 -- Mormon Temple in Nauvoo IL destroyed by tornado.
1863 -- CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die.
1895 -- British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector.
1896 -- 1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis MO); killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless.
1901 -- The Edison Storage Battery Company was organized.
1907 -- Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Fransisco.
1919 -- Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster.
1921 -- After 84 years of British control, Afghánistán achieves sovereignty.
1930 -- Richard Drew invents masking tape.
1931 -- 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field VA.
1935 -- Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional.
1941 -- German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force.
1942 -- Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered.
1943 -- US forbids racial discrimination in war industry.
1951 -- Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Fransisco opens
1961 -- 1st black light is sold.
1968 -- Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost.
1969 -- Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida.
1975 -- Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges from Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38.
1977 -- George H. Willig was fined for scaling the World Trade Center in New York on May 26. He was fined $1.10, thats 1 cent per floor!
1977 -- 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582.
1981 -- John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol.
1985 -- Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
1994 -- Larry King ended his radio show.
1995 -- Christopher Reeve was paralyzed after being thrown from his horse.
1997 -- 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole.
1997 -- Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault.
I hope everyone enjoys this Day in History!!
MsPriss *PrissieHuggzz* :)
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