Today is Thursday, May 27, the 147th day of 2010. 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
1895 _ British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
1905 _ Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
1941 _ FDR proclaims an ``unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
1951 _ Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1977 _ Two Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
1980 _ South Korean army ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
1994 _ Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile
1997 _ Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO