MONDAY, May 27, 2024

On this day...

1738-Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov

1927-Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war

1933-Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released

1944-Jean-Paul Sartre's "Huis Clos" premieres in Paris France

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

1953-Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections

1961-First black light is sold

1970-USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

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

1985-Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997

1997-First all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole

1997-Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO