MONDAY, May 27, 2024

1738-Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov

1940-British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)

1942-Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered

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

1970-British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I

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

1994-Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile

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

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