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
