May 27

Today in History
• 1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death
• 1529 - 30 Jews of Posing, Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
• 1679 - Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in UK
• 1692 - Court of Oyer and Terminer established to hear accusations of witchcraft
• 1703 - Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great
• 1796 - James S McLean patents his piano
• 1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
• 1850 - Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois, destroyed by tornado


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day
• National Cellophane Tape Day
• National Grape Popsicle Day
• National Sunscreen Day
• National Wig Out Day
• Nothing to Fear Day
• Old Time Player Piano Day
• Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe)

Birthdays
• 1332 - Ibn Khaldun, Tunis, Arab historian/sociologist, Muqaddimah
• 1601 - Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary and martyr
• 1626 - William II, prince of Orange/stadholder
• 1738 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (6th President of the Confederation Congress)
• 1756 - Maximilian I Joseph, King of Bavaria
• 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire, B and O railroad
• 1818 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, American reformer who campaigned for women’s rights
• 1819 - Julia Ward Howe, U.S., author/lecturer, Battle Hymn of the Republic