05. 27. ON THIS DAY in past

in #history7 years ago (edited)

On this day in history so many things happened, both good and bad.
Here are some of the events that happened on this day:

927
Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Simeon I of Bulgaria is defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia

1703
Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great

1796
James S McLean patents his piano

1849
Opening of the Great Hall at Euston station in London
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1883
Tsar Alexander III crowned in Moscow.

1895
British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector

1905
Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history

1916
President Woodrow Wilson addresses the League to Enforce Peace, founded in 1915, and gives public support to the idea of a league of nations
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1927
Tomáš Masaryk re-elected President of Czechoslovakia for a second time

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

1933
Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released

1937
Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to pedestrians

1941
German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force

1942
Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered

1942
Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded by Czech rebels in Prague during Operation Anthropoid

1951
Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
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1963
Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st Prime Minister of Kenya

1964
9th European Cup: Internazionale beats Real Madrid 3-1 at Vienna

1975
Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
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1977
The Sex Pistols release "God Save the Queen", sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC

1995 Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition in Culpeper, Virginia

1997
1st all female (20 British women) team reach the North Pole

1997
Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO

1999
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo

And here are a few people who were born on this day

1332
Ibn Khaldūn, North African Islamic scholar, philosopher and historian (Muqaddimah), born in Tunis (d. 1406)

1837
"Wild Bill" Hickok [James Butler], American cowboy and scout, born in Troy Grove, Illinois (d. 1876)
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1907
Rachel Carson, American marine biologist, conservationist and writer (Silent Spring), born in Springdale, Pennsylvania (d. 1964)

1912
Sam Snead, American golfer (PGA-1963, 65, 67, 70, 72, 73), born in Ashwood, Virginia (d. 2002)

1922
Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit), born in London, England (d. 2015)

1965
Pat Cash, Australian tennis player (Wimbledon 1987), born in Melbourne, Victoria

1970
Joseph Fiennes, English actor (Enemy at the Gates, Shakespeare in Love), born in Salisbury, Wiltshire

And that's just a small part of all that happened on this day in history, and I hope you liked this little thing I set.
Have a nice day, and know that one day on this day will remember and there will be only history. so do something that people will remember

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