Today is Tuesday, May 27, the 148th day of 2008. There are 218 days left in the year.
1679 _ Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in U.K.
1703 _ St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
1905 _ Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tsushima
1941 _ FDR proclaims an ``unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
1942 _ Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered
1951 _ Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1961 _ President Kennedy announces U.S. goal to reach the moon
1980 _ South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
1997 _ First all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
1997 _ Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO