Today In History [28th may, 2016]

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.

  Today in History

May 27

1564		John Calvin, one of the dominant figures of the Protestant Reformation, dies in Geneva.
1647		Achsah Young becomes the first woman known to be executed as a witch in Massachusetts.
1668		Three colonists are expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists.
1813		Americans capture Fort George, Canada.
1907		The Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco.
1919		A U.S. Navy seaplane completes the first transatlantic flight.
1929		Colonel Charles Lindbergh marries Anne Spencer Murrow.
1935		The Supreme Court declares President Franklin Roosevelt‘s National Recovery Act unconstitutional.
1937		San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opens.
1941		The German battleship Bismarck is sunk by British naval and air forces.
1942		German General Erwin Rommel begins a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.
1944		American General Douglas MacArthur lands on Biak Island in New Guinea.
1960		A military coup overthrows the democratic government of Turkey.
1969		Construction begins on Walt Disney World in Florida.
1972		President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev sign an arms reduction agreement.
1999		The international war crimes tribunal indicts Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for war atrocities.
Born on May 27
1794		Cornelius Vanderbilt, American industrialist and philanthropist.
1819		Julia Ward Howe, writer of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
1837		Wild Bill [James Butler] Hickok, American frontiersman and lawman.
1878		Isadora Duncan, dancer and choreographer.
1894		(Samuel) Dashiell Hammett, detective writer (The Maltese Falcon).
1907		Rachel Carson, biologist and writer (Silent Spring, The Sea Around Us).
1911		Hubert Humphrey, U.S. politician.
1911		Vincent Price, actor and horror film icon.
1912		John Cheever, writer (The Wapshot Chronicles).
1915		Herman Wouk, author (Winds of War, The Caine Mutiny).
1923		Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon.
1925		Tony Hillerman, mystery novelist (The Blessing Way, Sacred Clowns).