| 1564 |
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John Calvin, one of the dominant figures of the Protestant Reformation, dies in Geneva. |
| 1647 |
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Achsah Young becomes the first woman known to be executed as a witch in Massachusetts. |
| 1668 |
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Three colonists are expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists. |
| 1813 |
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Americans capture Fort George, Canada. |
| 1907 |
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The Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco. |
| 1919 |
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A U.S. Navy seaplane completes the first transatlantic flight. |
| 1929 |
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Colonel Charles Lindbergh marries Anne Spencer Murrow. |
| 1935 |
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The Supreme Court declares President Franklin Roosevelt’s National Recovery Act unconstitutional. |
| 1937 |
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San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opens. |
| 1941 |
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The German battleship Bismarck is sunk by British naval and air forces. |
| 1942 |
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German General Rommel begins a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps. |
| 1944 |
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American General MacArthur lands on Biak Island in New Guinea. |
| 1960 |
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A military coup overthrows the democratic government of Turkey. |
| 1969 |
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Construction begins on Walt Disney World in Florida. |
| 1972 |
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President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev sign an arms reduction agreement. |
| 1999 |
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The international war crimes tribunal indicts Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for war atrocities. |
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Born on May 27 |
| 1332 |
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Dante Alighieri, Italian writer. |
| 1794 |
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Cornelius Vanderbilt, American industrialist and philanthropist. |
| 1819 |
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Julia Ward Howe, writer of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." |
| 1837 |
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Wild Bill [James Butler] Hickok, American frontiersman and lawman. |
| 1878 |
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Isadora Duncan, dancer and choreographer. |
| 1894 |
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(Samuel) Dashiell Hammett, detective writer (The Maltese Falcon). |
| 1907 |
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Rachel Carson, biologist and writer (Silent Spring, The Sea Around Us). |
| 1911 |
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Hubert Humphrey, U.S. politician. |
| 1911 |
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Vincent Price, actor and horror film icon. |
| 1912 |
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John Cheever, writer (The Wapshot Chronicles). |
| 1915 |
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Herman Wouk, author (Winds of War, The Caine Mutiny). |
| 1923 |
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Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under President Nixon. |
| 1925 |
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Tony Hillerman, mystery novelist (The Blessing Way, Sacred Clowns). |
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