Historical Events In May - 27

1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed

1981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol

1981 Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris France

1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress

1984 Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day

1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997

1985 Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan

1986 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking

1986 President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled

1987 Jim & Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal

1987 Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna

1988 Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles

1990 César Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia

1990 Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game

1990 Radical Democratic Party holds first political meetings in Moscow

1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die

1993 Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 homeruns

1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6

1994 Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile

1994 Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show

1994 Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters

1994 Larry King ended his radio show

1994 Nobel Prize-winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia, ending two decades of exile

1994 Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35)

1995 Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman) is paralyzed after an accident during an equestrian event in Charlottesville, VA

1997 Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract

1997 Major league revenue sharing begins, New York Yankees pay out most $28 million

1997 Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault

1997 Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO

1997 The first all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole

1930 Widespread unrest in India after Gandhi's arrest

1940 The evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk, France, begins

1941 The German battleship 'Bismark' is sunk off the coast of France

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