On this day in History - May 27

• 0366 - Procopius dies (b. 0326). Roman usurper.
• 0735 - Bede dies (b. 0672 or 0673). English historian and theologian.
• 0866 - Ordoño I dies (b. 0831). King of Asturias.
• 0927 - Battle of the Bosnian Highlands Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia
• 0927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria dies.
• 1039 - Dirk III, Count of Holland dies.
• 1120 - Richard III of Capua anointed as prince a fortnight before his untimely death.
• 1153 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
• 1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France.
• 1332 - Ibn Khaldun was borm (d. 1406). Arab historian.
• 1444 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset dies (b. 1404). English military leader.
• 1498 - Vasco da Gama descobre o caminho marítimo para as Índias. Vasco da Gama was the first European to sail from Europe, round Africa, to India. He landed in Southwest India, on the 27th or 28th of May, 1498, just north of the then prosperous port of Calicut.
• 1508 - Ludovico Sforza dies (1452). Duke of Milan.
• 1519 - Girolamo Mei was born (d. 1594). Italian historian.
• 1525 - Thomas Muentzer dies. German rebel leader.
• 1541 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury dies executed (b. 1374). Daughter of George, Duke of Clarence.
• 1564 - John Calvin dies (b. 1509). French religious reformer.
• 1576 - Caspar Schoppe was born (d. 1649). German scholar.
• 1601 - Antoine Daniel was born (d. 1648). Jesuit missionary and martyr.
• 1610 - François Ravaillac dies (b. 1578). French assassin who killed Henry IV of France.
• 1615 - Marguerite de Valois dies (b. 1553). Queen of Henry IV of France.
• 1623 - William Petty was born (d. 1687). English scientist and philosopher.
• 1626 - William II, Prince of Orange was born (d. 1650).
• 1647 - The first recorded execution of a witch in America takes place in Massachusetts.
• 1647 - Peter Stuyvesant was inaugurated as Director-General of New Netherland.
• 1651 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles was born (d. 1729). French cardinal.
• 1652 - Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz (Liselotte von der Pfalz) was born (d. 1722). Duchesse d'Orléans and sister-in-law of Louis XIV.
• 1661 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll dies beheaded. Scottish religious dissident
• 1675 - Gaspard Dughet dies (b. 1613). French painter.
• 1690 - Giovanni Legrenzi dies (b. 1626). Italian composer.
• 1702 - Dominique Bouhours dies (b. 1628). French critic.
• 1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
• 1707 - Marquise de Montespan dies (b. 1641). French mistress of Louis XIV of France.
• 1738 - Nathaniel Gorham was born (d. 1796). American politician.
• 1756 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria was born (d. 1825).
• 1781 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria dies (b. 1716). Italian physicist.
• 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt was born (d. 1877). American entrepreneur.
• 1797 - François-Noël Babeuf dies (b. 1760). French revolutionary and early socialist.
• 1798 - The Battle of Oulart Hill occurs in Wexford, Ireland.
• 1812 - South American Wars of Independence: In Bolivia, the battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fought against the Spanish army.
• 1813 - War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
• 1818 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer was born (d. 30 Dec 1894). Women’s rights advocate and social reformer; newspaper publisher: The Lily; social reformer; led cause for more sensible dress for women: bloomer panties named after her.
• 1819 - Julia Ward Howe was born (d. 1910). Author and reformer, composer ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic").
• 1820 - Mathilde Bonaparte was born (d. 1904). French princess and socialite.
• 1821 - Morte de Francisco da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca Teixeira. 1º conde de Amarante - Portugal.
• 1823 - Sublevação militar dirigida pelo infante D. Miguel, filho de D. João VI, conhecida pela Vila-Francada. Terminou com a primeira experiência liberal portuguesa, iniciada com a Revolução de 1820.
• 1827 - Samuel F. Miller was born (d. 1892). American politician.
• 1831 - Jedediah Smith dies (b. 1799). American explorer.
• 1834 - D. Pedro IV é apupado no Teatro de S. Carlos, quando assistia à representação do Il Pirata, de Belini, devido à amnistia proclamada pela Concessão de Évora-Monte. Terá um ataque de hemoptises e adoecerá. Morrerá em Setembro seguinte.
• 1835 - João Carlos Gregório Domingues assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
• 1836 - Jay Gould was born (d. 1892). American financier.
• 1837 - Ivan Kramskoi was born (d. 1887). Russian painter.
• 1837 - Wild Bill Hickok was born. American frontiersman, marksman, and law enforcement officer.
• 1840 - Nicolò Paganini dies (b. 1782). Italian violinist and composer.
• 1849 - The Great Hall of Euston station, London opened.
• 1855 - Bernardo Pinheiro Correia de Melo was born. Portuguese noble (Conde de Arnoso).
• 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily as part of the Italian Unification.
• 1860 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes was born (d. 1941). Portuguese politician who was 7th President of Portugal, diplomat and writer.
• 1863 - First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
• 1864 - Ante Trumbić was born (d. 1938). Croat politician.
• 1867 - Arnold Bennett was born (d. 1931). British novelist.
• 1871 - Georges Rouault was born (d. 1958). French painter and graphic artist.
• 1876 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski was born (d. 1945). Polish writer.
• 1878 - Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco (d. 14 Sep 1927). Dancer. Revolutionized the concept of dance: changing ballet into interpretive dance; killed in freak accident [strangled when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of a Bugatti sports car she was riding in].
• 1879 - Hans Lammers was born (d. 1962). German SS officer.
• 1879 - Karl Bühler was born (d. 1963). German linguist and psychologist.
• 1883 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
• 1883 - Wolfgang Ostwald was born (d. 22 Nov 1943). German chemist who devoted his life as a teacher, researcher, editor and one of the founders of colloid chemistry. He was the second child of 1909 Nobel Laureate Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald.
• 1884 - Max Brod was born (d. 1968). Austrian author.
• 1887 - Kasimir Fajans was born. Polish-born American chemist and physicist.
• 1888 - Louis Durey was born (d. 1979). French composer.
• 1891 - Claude Champagne was born (d. 1965). French Canadian composer.
• 1893 - Hermann Dörnemann was born (d. 2 Mar 2005). German WW1 veteran and supercenetarian.
• 1894 - Dashiell Hammett was born (d. 1961). American author.
• 1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline was born (d. 1961). French writer.
• 1895 - Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy.
• 1896 - The F4-strength East St. Louis Tornado hits in East Saint Louis, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri, killing 255 people.
• 1896 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov dies (b. 1839). Russian physicist.
• 1897 - Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was born (d. 18 Sep 1967). British physicist, joint winner (with Ernest T.S. Walton of Ireland) of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics for pioneering the use of particle accelerators in studying the atomic nucleus.
• 1900 - Uładzimir Zylka was born (d. 1933). Belarusian poet.
• 1901 - In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
• 1904 - Chuhei Nambu was born (d. 1977). Japanese athlete.
• 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• 1907 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
• 1907 - Rachel Carson was born (d. 1964). American ecologist.
• 1908 - Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din elected first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
• 1909 - Dolores Hope was born. American singer, philanthropist.
• 1910 - Robert Koch dies (b. 11 Dec 1843). German physician, a founder of the science of bacteriology, who discovered the tubercle bacillus (1882) and the cholera bacillus (1883). Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine laureate in 1905, "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis."
• 1911 - Aprovação do primeiro Código da Estrada português.
• 1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey was born (d. 13 Jan 1978). 38th Vice President of the United States.
• 1911 - Teddy Kollek was born (d. 2007). Austrian-born Israeli politician.
• 1911 - Vincent Price was born in Saint Louis, Missouri (d. 1993). American actor.
• 1912 - John Cheever was born (d. 1982). American author.
• 1912 - Sam Snead was born (d. 2002). American golfer champion.
• 1912 - Terry Moore was born (d. 1995). American baseball player.
• 1913 - Wols was born (d. 1951). German painter.
• 1915 - Herman Wouk was born. American writer.
• 1918 - Yasuhiro Nakasone was born. Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1918 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia.
• 1919 - The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
• 1919 - Kandukuri Veeresalingam dies (b. 1848). Social Reformer of Andhra Pradesh, India
• 1921 - Caryl Chessman was born (d. 1960). American robber and rapist.
• 1922 - Christopher Lee was born. English actor.
• 1923 - Henry Kissinger was born. American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973.
  
• 1923 - Sumner Redstone was born. American entrepreneur.
• 1923 - The first 24 hours of Le Mans race ends.
• 1924 - The Music Corporation of America (MCA) is founded.
• 1925 - Tony Hillerman was born. American mystery writer.
• 1926 - Srečko Kosovel dies (b. 1904). Slovenian poet.
• 1927 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
• 1928 - Portugal ganha ao Chile por 4-2 no Estadio Olímpico de Amsterdam, no primeiro jogo dos Jogos Olímpicos de 1928. Aos 16 minutos de jogo Portugal perdia por 2-0.
• 1930 - The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
• 1930 - John Barth was born. American novelist.
• 1930 - William S. Sessions was born. American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• 1930 - Gabriel Miró dies (b. 28 Jul 1879). Spanish writer.
• 1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
• 1933 - New Deal: In America The Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
• 1933 - The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?".
• 1933 - The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.
• 1933 - Ted Rogers was born. Canadian entrepreneur.
• 1934 - Harlan Ellison was born. American science fiction author.
• 1934 - World Football Championship begins in Italy / Início do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol realizado na Itália.
• 1935 - New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
• 1935 - Lee Meriwether was born. Miss America and actress.
• 1935 - Mal Evans was born. British Beatles assistant.
• 1935 - Ramsey Lewis was born. American pianist.
• 1936 - The RMS Queen Mary begins her maiden voyage.
• 1936 - Louis Gossett Jr., was born. American actor.
• 1936 - Marcel Masse was born. Canadian politician.
• 1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
• 1937 - Allan Carr was born (d. 1999). American film producer and writer.
• 1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
• 1939 - Socratis Kokkalis was born. Greek businessman, owner of Olympiacos.
• 1940 - World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knochlein, is eventually hanged for war crimes.
• 1941 - World War II: U.S. President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
• 1941 - World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300 men, including Gunther Lutjens, admiral (b. 1889) and Ernst Lindemann, captain, (b. 1894).
• 1941 - Ernst Lindemann (b. 1894), German captain, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck.
• 1941 - Gunther Lutjens (b. 1889). German admiral, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck.
• 1942 - World War II: Operation Anthropoid - assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.
• 1942 - Lee Baca was born. American law enforcement official.
• 1943 - Bruce Weitz was born. American actor: Hill Street Blues, Death of a Centerfold, The Liar’s Club, The O.J. Simpson Story, Molly and Gina.
• 1943 - Cilla Black (Priscilla Maria Veronica White) was born. English singer: You’re My World.
• 1944 - Alain Souchon was born. French singer and songwriter.
• 1944 - Christopher Dodd was born. American politician.
• 1945 - Bruce Cockburn was born. Canadian musician.
• 1946 - Lewis Collins was born. English actor.
• 1946 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen was born (d. 2005). Danish musician.
• 1947 - Branko Oblak was born. Slovenian football player.
• 1947 - Ed Konetchy dies (b. 1885). American baseball player.
• 1948 - Wubbo de Boer was born. Dutch civil servant.
• 1949 - Robert Ripley dies (b. 1890). American cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!).
• 1950 - Indonésia passa a ser membro da UNESCO.
• 1951 - Juan Domingo Peron is elected President of Argentina.
• 1951 - Ana Belén was born. Spanish singer and actress.
• 1953 - Jesse Burkett dies (b. 1868). American baseball player.
• 1954 - Jackie Slater was born. American football player.
• 1954 - Pauline Hanson was born. Australian politician.
• 1955 - Eric Bischoff was born. American professional wrestling promoter.
• 1955 - Richard Schiff was born. American actor.
• 1956 - Alianza Lima supera a Universitario por 2 goles a 1 y se proclama campeon de Peru en fútbol.
• 1956 - Cynthia McFadden was born. American television anchor.
• 1957 - Toronto's 1050 CHUM AM becomes Canada's first radio station to only broadcast. top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
• 1957 - Duncan Goodhew was born. English Olympic Games gold medalist swimmer.
• 1957 - Siouxsie Sioux was born. English musician ("Siouxsie and the Banshees").
• 1958 - The F-4 Phantom II flies for the first time.
• 1958 - Linnea Quigley was born. American actress.
• 1958 - Neil Finn was born. New Zealand singer and songwriter.
• 1960 - In Turkey, General Cemal Gürsel leads a military coup d'état removing President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government.
• 1960 - António Assis Júnior dies in Lisbon (b. 13 Mar 1887). Angolan journalist and writer.
  
• 1960 - James Montgomery Flagg dies (b. 1877). American illustrator.
• 1961 - Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup Winners Cup in Florence.
• 1961 - Peri Gilpin was born. American actress.
• 1962 - The Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire starts.
• 1962 - Ray Borner was born. Australian basketball player.
• 1962 - Steven Brill was born. American film writer and director.
• 1963 - Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.
• 1963 - Jomo Kenyatta is elected as Kenya's first prime minister, he will be inaugurated on 1 June.
• 1963 - Aquilino Ribeiro dies (b. 13 Sep 1885 at Sernancelhe). Portuguese writer.
• 1963 - Gregoris Lambrakis dies (b. 1912). Greek physician and politician.
• 1964 - Adam Carolla was born. American comedian, radio and television personality.
• 1964 - Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office (b. 1889).
• 1964 - Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Champions Cup in Vienna beating RealMadrid 3 -1.
• 1965 - Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Champions Cup in Milan beating Benfica 1-0.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombardments of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.
• 1965 - Pat Cash was born. Australian tennis player.
• 1965 - Todd Bridges was born. American actor.
• 1966 - Rafael Paasio assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia.
• 1967 - Australians vote in favour of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians, and to count them in the national census.
• 1967 - The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is christened by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
• 1967 - Paul Gascoigne was born. British footballer.
• 1967 - Ernst Niekisch dies (b. 1889). German politician.
• 1968 - The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (national Union of the students of France), most outstanding of the events of May 1968, proceeds and gathers 30.000 to 50.000 people in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
• 1968 - Future American president George W. Bush enlists in the Texas Air National Guard.
• 1968 - Frank Thomas was born. American baseball player.
• 1968 - Jeff Bagwell was born. American baseball player.
• 1969 – Dondre Whitfield was born. American actor.
• 1969 - Jeremy Mayfield was born. American race car driver.
• 1969 – Todd Hundley was born. American baseball player.
• 1969 - Jeffrey Hunter dies (b. 1926). American actor.
• 1970 - Estudiantes de La Plata se proclama tricampeón de Copa Libertadores al igualar sin goles frente a Peñarol, en Montevideo. En el partido de ida, había vencido por 1 gol a 0.
• 1970 - Joseph Fiennes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. English actor.
• 1970 - Michele Bartoli was born. Italian cyclist.
• 1970 - Tim Farron was born. British politician.
• 1971 - The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
• 1971 - President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt signs a 15-year friendship treaty with the Soviet Union.
• 1971 - Glenn Ross was born. Northern Irish strongman.
• 1971 - Kaur Kender was born. Estonian author.
• 1971 - Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes was born (d. 2002). American singer.
• 1971 - Monika Schnarre was born. Canadian model.
• 1971 - Paul Bettany was born. English actor.
• 1971 - Wayne Carey was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1972 - Ivete Sangalo was born in Juazeiro, Bahia. Brazilian singer.
• 1972 - Todd Demsey was born. American golfer.
• 1973 - Jack McBrayer was born. American actor and comedian.
• 1973 – Tana Umaga was born. New Zealand rugby union footballer.
• 1973 - Ilona Kabos dies (b. 1898). Hungarian pianist.
• 1973 - P.Ramlee dies (b. 1922). Malaysian actor,singer and songwriter.
• 1974 - Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1974 - É fixado em decreto o primeiro salário mínimo nacional, Esc. 3.300$00 mensais.
• 1974 - Danny Wuerffel was born. American football player.
• 1974 - Derek Webb was born. American singer and songwriter (Caedmon's Call).
• 1975 - The Dibble's Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 32 (the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom).
• 1975 - Elijah Mudenda assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Zâmbia.
• 1975 - André 3000 was born. American musician (OutKast).
• 1975 - Jadakiss was born. American rapper (The Lox).
• 1975 - Jamie Oliver was born. British chef and television personality.
• 1975 - Michael Hussey was born. Australian cricket player.
• 1976 - Anita Blonde was born. Hungarian porn star.
• 1976 - RJD2 was born. American hip-hop producer.
• 1977 - 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582.
• 1977 - An Aeroflot plane crashes, killing 69 people.
• 1977 - Abderrahmane Hammad was born. Algerian athlete.
• 1977 - Mahela Jayawardene was born. Sri Lankan cricketer.
• 1977 - Tommie van der Leegte was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1978 - Adin Brown was born. American soccer player.
• 1979 - Mile Sterjovski was born. Australian footballer.
• 1980 - The Gwangju Massacre: airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
• 1980 - É restabelecida, em Coimbra, a tradicional festa da Queima das Fitas. A festa tinha deixado de se realizar em 1969.
• 1980 - Craig Buntin was born. Canadian figure skater.
• 1981 – David Mauro was born. American painter.
• 1981 - Fivos Constantinou was born. Cypriot distance runner.
• 1981 - Johan Elmander was born. Swedish footballer.
• 1981 - Marcos Miloy was born. Angolan footballer.
• 1981 – Miloy was born. Angolan footballer.
• 1981 - Özgür Çevik was born. Turkish singer and actor.
• 1983 - Bobby Convey was born. American soccer player.
• 1984 - Blake Ahearn was born. NBA basketball player.
• 1984 - Kalle Spjuth was born. Swedish bandy player.
• 1984 - Vincent James McMahon dies (b. 1914). American professional wrestling promoter.
• 1985 - Chien-Ming Chiang was born. Taiwanese baseball player.
• 1986 - Maxwell Kinney was born. Airman.
• 1986 - Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi dies (b. 1921). Palestinian-American Muslim thinker, philosopher, and comparative religion scholar.
• 1987 - John Howard Northrop dies (b. 5 Jul 1891). American biochemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry-1946 laureate (with James B. Sumner and Wendell M. Stanley) for successfully purifying and crystallizing certain enzymes, thus enabling him to determine their chemical nature.
• 1987 - FC Porto win their first European Champions Cup, beating 2-1 Bayern München , in Prater Stadium,Wien, with goals scored by Madjer (famous goal) and Juary.
• 1988 - Ernst (August Friedrich) Ruska dies (b. 25 Dec 1906). German electrical engineer who invented the electron microscope. For "his fundamental work in electron optics and for the design of the first electron microscope" he was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1986 (with Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig).
• 1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky dies (b. 1907). Russian poet.
• 1990 - Portugal: Jorge Sampaio is reelected General-Secretary of Socialist Party at the end of the IX Congress.
• 1990 - Ekaterina Zaikina was born. Russian figure-skater.
• 1990 - Robert B. Meyner dies (b. 1908). American politician.
• 1991 - Leopold Nowak dies (b. 1904). Austrian musicologist.
• 1991 - Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die.
• 1992 - Uncle Charlie Osborne dies (b. 1890). American fiddler.
• 1993 - Mary Philbin dies (b. 1903). American actress.
• 1993 - Werner Stocker dies (b. 1955). German actor.
• 1994 - Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to live in his native Russia after 20 years in exile.
• 1995 - In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
• 1996 - First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.
• 1997 - The F5-strength Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
• 1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
• 1997 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO.
• 1998 - Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
• 1999 - The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
• 2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch dies (b. 1917). British Governor of Hong Kong.
• 2000 - Kazimierz Leski dies (b. 1912). Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer.
• 2000 - Maurice Richard dies (b. 1921). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 2001 - Ramon Bieri dies (b. 1929). American actor.
• 2003 - Luciano Berio dies (b. 1925). Italian composer.
• 2004 - José Augusto Seabra dies at 66. Portuguese diplomat, politician and professor.
• 2006 - The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.
• 2006 - Alex Toth dies (b. 1928). American cartoonist.
• 2006 - Craig Heyward dies (b. 1966). American football player.
• 2006 - Oduvil Unnikrishnan dies (b. 1944). Indian actor.
• 2006 - Paul Gleason dies (b. 1939). American actor.
• 2006 - Rob Borsellino dies (b. 1949). American columnist.
• 2007 - Ed Yost dies (b. 1919). American inventor.
• 2007 - Gretchen Wyler dies (b. 1932). American actress.
• 2007 - Izumi Sakai dies (b. 1967). Japanese singer.
• Mother's Day in Bolivia (Día de la Madre).
• Children's Day in Nigeria.