Today is Tuesday, May 27, the 147th day of 2014. There are 218 days left in the year.
1679 ― Habeas Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in U.K.
1703 ― St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
1895 ― British inventor Birth Acres patents film camera/projector
1905 - Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tsushima
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 military 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