Saturday, May 27, 2000
History today -- 12:10 am CST, Update by The Master
- 1647: First recorded American "Witch Burning".
- 1936: The Cunard Liner Queen Mary leaves England on her maiden voyage.
- 1937: The Golden Gate Bridge is opened to traffic.
- 1941: FDR declares an "unlimited national emergency". In addition, the German Battleship Bismarck is sunk, with the loss of 2,300 lives.
- 1985: Britain and China exchange instruments of ratification of the pact returning Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997.
- 1995: Nobel-prize winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia after two decades of exile.
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