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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.