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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Selected anniversaries
May 27
:
Memorial Day
in the United States
Manchu Prince Dorgon
1644
–
Manchu
regent
Dorgon
(depicted)
defeated rebel leader
Li Zicheng
of the
Shun dynasty
at the
Battle of Shanhai Pass
, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
1799
–
War of the Second Coalition
: Austrian forces defeated the French
Army of the Danube
,
capturing the strategically important Swiss town
of
Winterthur
.
1954
– The security clearance of American nuclear physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
, head of
Project Y
,
was revoked
.
1967
– Australians
voted overwhelmingly
to include
Indigenous Australians
in population counts for constitutional purposes and to allow the federal government to make special laws affecting them in states.
Diego Ramírez de Arellano
(
d.
1624)
Julia Ward Howe
(
b.
1819)
Cilla Black
(
b.
1943)
Gérard Jean-Juste
(
d.
2009)
More anniversaries:
May 26
May 27
May 28
In the news
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
A landslide
in Papua New Guinea's
Enga Province
leaves thousands of people missing with many feared dead.
The
European Union
passes the
Artificial Intelligence Act
, aiming to establish
a regulatory and legal framework
for
AI
.
A helicopter crash
near
Varzaqan
, Iran, kills eight people, including President
Ebrahim Raisi
and Foreign Minister
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
(pictured)
.
In boxing,
Oleksandr Usyk
defeats
Tyson Fury
to become the first
undisputed heavyweight champion
in twenty-four years.
Did you know...
Central Synagogue
... that New York City's
Central Synagogue
(pictured)
has hosted churches and a mosque?
... that the Egyptian-Sudanese singer
Nxdia
took the "queer anthem" "She Likes a Boy" into the
UK Singles Sales Chart
?
... that there is a dispute within the Indian communist movement on whether the
Communist Party of India
was
founded in Tashkent in 1920 or Kanpur in 1925
?
... that
John Gould Stephenson
fought at the
Battle of Gettysburg
while serving as the
librarian of Congress
?
... that the
Swiss Party of Labour
expelled
its branch in Basel
in 1988 after tensions over an
occupation movement
in the city?
... that between 2006 and 2007,
Stacy Hollowell
worked for basketball teams in Qatar, China, Bahrain and Lithuania?
... that on June 30, 1973,
scientists set the record for the longest observation of a total solar eclipse
, at 74 minutes of
totality
?
... that suffragette
Ellen Oliver
recognised "daughter of God"
Mabel Barltrop
as the spiritual child of prophet
Joanna Southcott
?
... that a ring-tailed monkey named Jenny threw billiard balls down a flight of stairs to alert firefighters to a fire in
their own building
?
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