0927 Bulgaria's Symeon dies of a heart attack May 27 after building an empire that stretches from the Ionian to the Black Sea

1328 French king Philip VI Valois crowned

1529 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake

1647 The first recorded U S execution of a "witch" takes place in Massachusetts

1647 The first woman known to be executed as a witch, Achsah Young in Massachusetts

1660 Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire

1679 Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in UK

1689 Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland

1703 St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great

1738 Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov

1796 James S McLean patents his piano

1813 American joint operations against Fort George, Canada

1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes first telegraph line

1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo IL destroyed by tornado

1854 Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed

1856 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning

1862 Battle of Hanover Court House VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)

1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die

1863 Siege of Port Hudson LA

1864 Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop) VA

1878 Australia Cricket 41 & 12-1 defeat MCC 33 & 19

1883 Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow

1893 Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland

1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector

1896 255 people are killed when a twister strikes St Louis, Missouri and East St Louis, Illinois

1896 Bay District Race Track closes

1896 The first major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis MO); killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless

1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa

1903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam

1904 National League record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, New York Giants)

1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima

1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Fransisco

1915 SS Aguila, a Yeoward Bros. ship, she was torpedoed by a German U-boat 47 miles south-west of the Smalls Lighthouse.

1916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in the Bronx

1917 Race riot in East St Louis IL, 1 black killed

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