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2006
A massive earthquake devastates parts of Java, Indonesia
1999
The international war crimes tribunal indicts Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for war atrocities.
1972
President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev sign an arms reduction agreement.
1969
Construction begins on Walt Disney World in Florida.
1964.
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, passed away on May 27, 1964.
1960
A military coup overthrows the democratic government of Turkey.
1944
American General Douglas MacArthur lands on Biak Island in New Guinea.
1942
German General Erwin Rommel begins a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.
1941
The German battleship
Bismarck
is sunk by British naval and air forces.
1937
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opens.
1935
The Supreme Court declares President Franklin Roosevelt‘s National Recovery Act unconstitutional.
1933
Walt Disney's cartoon Three Little Pigs is released
1929
Colonel Charles Lindbergh marries Anne Spencer Morrow.
1925
Tony Hillerman, mystery novelist (
The Blessing Way
,
Sacred Clowns
).
1923
Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon.
1919
A U.S. Navy seaplane completes the first transatlantic flight.
1915
Herman Wouk, author (
The Winds of War
,
The Caine Mutiny
).
1912
John Cheever, writer (
The Wapshot Chronicles
).
1911
Vincent Price, actor and horror film icon.
1911
Hubert Humphrey, U.S. politician.
1907
The Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco.
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