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Wednesday, 27 May 2026
May 27 Kay Campbell, actress (All My Children), dies at 80. 
May 28 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
May 28 Discovery moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base for mating of STS 51-G
May 29 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccer match
May 29 Heysel Stadium Disaster - 39 die and 500 injured in rioting between British and Italians at European Cup soccer; English clubs banned from playing in European competition for five years.
May 29 Thirty-five spectators die when rioting erupts at the European Cup soccer final in Brussels.
May 31 41 Tornados in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Canada kill 88 and injure more than 1000
May 31 In this year, Guatemala formally adopts constitution.
May 31 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70204000
Jun 01 Richard Greene actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67
Jun 04 STS 51-G vehicle moves to the launch pad
Jun 04 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law.
Jun 06 Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed.
Jun 06 Brazilian authorities exhume the body later identified as Dr. Josef Mengele, the one responsible for many of the Nazi Holocaust atrocities during World War II.
Jun 06 In this year, Chris Evert claims a grand slam title for 13th straight year (French).
Jun 06 Siem Devout, Dutch actor, dies at 54
Jun 06 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
Jun 09 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon.
Jun 09 USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
Jun 10 Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68.
Jun 10 Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife
Jun 10 Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula so much for the "New Coke".
Jun 10 The Israeli army ends its 1099 day occupation of Lebanon
Jun 11 Karen Ann Quinlan, comatose patient, dies in Morris Plains NJ at 31
Jun 14 Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff.
Jun 15 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
Jun 15 Len Hopwood, cricketer (took 0-155 in two Tests Eng v Aust 1934), dies.
Jun 17 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
Jun 17 Piet De Somer, Belgian rector of University of Louvain, dies at 67
Jun 19 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
Jun 21 American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele.
Jun 23 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
Jun 24 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth
Jun 24 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
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