Page 7: Historical Events In May - 27

1944  Japanese advance in Hangkhou China   

1948  Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid.   

1949  Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane.   

1949  Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin   

1949  Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day"   

1949  Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY.   

1950  Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens   

1950  "Arms and the Girl" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 134 performances   

1951  Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing.   

1951  Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Fransisco opens.   

1951  Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies.   

1952  European Defense Community forms.   

1952  European Defense Community Treaty, establishing an EU army, signed.   

1953  Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections   

1954  Herzmanovsky-Orlando, writer, dies   

1955  Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV   

1955  Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0.   

1956  French raid in Algiers   

1956  US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests).   

1957  Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) is recorded as becoming Canada's inaugural radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.   

1958  Ernest Green and 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS   

1958  Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)   

1958  Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46   

1960  Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey.   

1960  Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy), dies at 65   

1961  In this year, Fiorentina claims inaugural Europe Cup II in Florence   

1961  President Kennedy announces US goal to reach the Moon   

1961  The inaugural "black light" is sold can disco be far ahead?.   

1963  Jomo Kenyatta elected inaugural prime minister of Kenya.   

1963  Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered   

1964  "From Russia With Love" premieres in US   

1964  In this year, Inter Milan claims 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna   

1964  Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, dies at 74.   

1965  HMAS Sydney departs on inaugural voyage to Vietnam with 1 RAR   

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1332  Ibn khaldun: Tunis, arab historian/sociologist (muqaddimah)   

1519  Girolamo mei: Italian historian   

1576  Caspar schoppe: German scholar   

1595  Benedictus carpzovius: [benedikt carpzov], german lawyer   

1601  Antoine daniel: Jesuit missionary and martyr   

1623  William petty: English scientist and philosopher   

1626  William ii: Prince of orange/stadholder   

1651  Louis-antoine: Cardinal de noailles, french cardinal   

0366  Procopius: Roman usurper (b. 326)   

0735  Death of Bede: English historian and theologian (b. 672 or 673)   

0866  Death of Ordono i: King of asturia (850-66),   

0927  Symeon: Czar of bulgaria ( -927)   

1039  Death of Dirk iii hierosolymita: Count of holland,   

1178  Godfried van rhenen: Bishop of utrecht,   

1444  John beaufort: 1st duke of somerset, english military leader (b. 1404)   

1508  Death of Ludovico sforza [il moro]: Italian duke of milan,