This Day in History May 27

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May 27

1813 Americans capture Fort George, Canada
1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
1862 Battle of Hanover Court House VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA
1863 Siege of Port Hudson LA
1864 Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop) VA
1873 1st Preakness Stakes won by Survivor (2:43)
1918 Battle of Aisne
1919 The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight
1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster
1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape
1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field VA
1933 Federal Securities Act signed
1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional
1937 Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, dedicated
1940 British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta
1941 FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
1942 Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
1942 Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot & mortally wounded in Prague
1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris
1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
1958 The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight
1961 1st black light is sold
1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya
1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1986 President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
 

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