Saturday, May 27, 2017

History for May 27

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History for May 27 - On-This-Day.com
Ibn Khaldun (or Ibn Khaldoun) 1332 - Astronomer, economist, historian, Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794 - Entrepreneur (shipping and railroads), Wild Bill Hickok 1837 - gunfighter, scout, lawman
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Hubert H. Humphrey (Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr.) 1911 - Served as Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson, Herman Wouk 1915 - Author, Henry Kissinger 1923 - Former U.S. Secretary of State
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1647 - Alse Young (Achsah Young or Alice Young), a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a "witch." It was the first recorded American execution of a "witch."
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1907 - The Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco.
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1929 - Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Anne Spencer Murrow were married.
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1933 - Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs" was first released.
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1941 - The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed.
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1942 - German General Erwin Rommel began a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.
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1969 - Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida.
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1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while President Clinton was in office.
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