This Day in History: May 27, 2024
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1647
The first recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged.
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1703
St. Petersburg was founded by Czar Peter the Great.
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1936
The Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage, arriving in France four hours later.
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1937
Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened.
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1941
British ships sank the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of France, resulting in the loss of 2,300 lives.
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1994
Nobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile.
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1996
After a year and a half of bloodshed, Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with the leader of the Chechen rebels and negotiated a cease-fire.
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1999
Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague for crimes against humanity.
