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May 27 Events in History
May 27, 1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
May 27, 1997 Arie Luyendyk wins his 2nd Indianapolis 500
May 27, 1997 Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract
May 27, 1997 Major league revenue sharing begins, New York Yanks pay out most $28M
May 27, 1997 Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault
May 27, 1997 Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
May 27, 1994 Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile
May 27, 1994 Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show
May 27, 1994 Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters
May 27, 1994 Larry King ended his radio show
May 27, 1994 Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35)
May 27, 1993 Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 HRs
May 27, 1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
May 27, 1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
May 27, 1990 74th Indianapolis 500 runs
May 27, 1990 Cesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia
May 27, 1990 Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game
May 27, 1990 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
May 27, 1990 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
May 27, 1988 Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles
May 27, 1987 Jim and Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal
May 27, 1987 Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
May 27, 1987 Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young and Sutton)
May 27, 1986 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
May 27, 1986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking
May 27, 1986 Prest Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
May 27, 1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
May 27, 1985 Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan
May 27, 1984 Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest," premieres in New York City
May 27, 1984 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
May 27, 1984 Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day
May 27, 1983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress
May 27, 1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin New York City for 5 performances
May 27, 1982 John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies and gets approval to move to NJ
May 27, 1981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
May 27, 1981 Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no
May 27, 1981 Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris
May 27, 1981 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
May 27, 1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
May 27, 1979 Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
May 27, 1979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop
May 27, 1977 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
May 27, 1977 New York City fines George Willig 1 cents for each of 110 stories he climbed
May 27, 1976 "Something's Afoot" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 61 performances
May 27, 1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus and Mars"
May 27, 1975 Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2
May 27, 1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
May 27, 1974 Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning
May 27, 1973 Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6
May 27, 1972 "Applause" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 900 performances
May 27, 1972 "Jimmy Castor Bunch's Troglodyte" (Cave Man) hits #6
May 27, 1971 23rd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 13-11
May 27, 1971 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
May 27, 1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
May 27, 1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
May 27, 1969 Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV
May 27, 1969 Walt Disney World construction begins
May 27, 1968 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3
May 27, 1968 NL awards Montreal and SD major league franchises
May 27, 1968 Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost
May 27, 1967 "Sherry!" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 65 performances
May 27, 1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes
May 27, 1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain
May 27, 1965 Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan
May 27, 1964 "From Russia With Love" premieres in U.S.
May 27, 1964 Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
May 27, 1963 3 New Jersey businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, and get approval to move them to New Jersey Meadowlands (Devils)
May 27, 1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya
May 27, 1962 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
May 27, 1961 1st black light is sold
May 27, 1961 Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup II in Florence
May 27, 1961 Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' "
May 27, 1960 Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt
May 27, 1960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
May 27, 1958 Ernest Green and 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
May 27, 1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
May 27, 1956 French raid in Algiers
May 27, 1956 U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
May 27, 1955 Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0
May 27, 1955 Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV
May 27, 1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
May 27, 1952 European Defense Community forms
May 27, 1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
May 27, 1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Francisco opens
May 27, 1950 "Arms and the Girl" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 134 performances
May 27, 1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
May 27, 1949 Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day"
May 27, 1949 Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane
May 27, 1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin
May 27, 1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid
May 27, 1948 Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians
May 27, 1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
May 27, 1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou, China
May 27, 1944 Jean-Paul Sartres "Huis Clos," premieres in Paris
May 27, 1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris
May 27, 1943 U.S. forbid racial discrimination in war industry
May 27, 1942 Dorie Miller, awarded Navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
May 27, 1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
May 27, 1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
May 27, 1942 Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded in Prague
May 27, 1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta
May 27, 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
May 27, 1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
May 27, 1940 British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
May 27, 1938 Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of Eng season, earliest to do so
May 27, 1937 Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936)
May 27, 1937 Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, dedicated
May 27, 1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for New York on maiden voyage
May 27, 1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional
May 27, 1933 Austrian Communist Party banned
May 27, 1933 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
May 27, 1933 Federal Securities Act signed
May 27, 1933 Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th and beat White Sox 15-11
May 27, 1933 Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
May 27, 1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field, Virginia
May 27, 1931 Piccard and Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon
May 27, 1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape
May 27, 1929 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England
May 27, 1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
May 27, 1927 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president
May 27, 1921 After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty
May 27, 1920 Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
May 27, 1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; U.S. Navy flying boat takes 11 days
May 27, 1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster
May 27, 1917 Race riot in East St. Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
May 27, 1916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx
May 27, 1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
May 27, 1906 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
May 27, 1905 30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8
May 27, 1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
May 27, 1904 NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, New York Giants)
May 27, 1903 37th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75
May 27, 1903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam
May 27, 1902 27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8
May 27, 1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa
May 27, 1898 Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the 'Wells'," premieres in London
May 27, 1896 Bay District Race Track closes
May 27, 1896 Tornado hit St. Louis, killing 255 and leaving thousands homeless
May 27, 1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
May 27, 1893 Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland
May 27, 1883 Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow
May 27, 1882 10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44
May 27, 1881 9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40
May 27, 1878 6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75
May 27, 1878 Australians Cricket 41 and 12-1 defeat MCC 33 and 19
May 27, 1864 Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia
May 27, 1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die
May 27, 1863 Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana
May 27, 1862 Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
May 27, 1856 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning
May 27, 1854 Marine Telegraph from Ft. Point to San Francisco completed
May 27, 1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois destroyed by tornado
May 27, 1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
May 27, 1813 Americans capture Ft. George, Canada
May 27, 1796 James S. McLean patents his piano
May 27, 1738 Turkish troops occupy Orsova and Ochakov
May 27, 1703 St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
May 27, 1689 Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland
May 27, 1679 Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in UK
May 27, 1660 Denmark and Sweden sign ceasefire
May 27, 1529 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
May 27, 1328 French king Philip VI Valois crowned
May 27, 1281 Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge
Who was the greatest Warrior/Soldier of all time?
Audie Murphy WW2
Alvin York WW1- Audie L. Murphy rose to national fame as the most decorated U.S. combat soldier of World War II. Among his 33 awards and decorations was the Medal of Honor, the highest military award for bravery that can be given to any individual in the United States of America. He also received every decoration for valor that his country had to offer, some of them more than once, including 5 decorations by France and Belgium. Credited with either killing over 240 of the enemy while wounding and capturing many others, he became a legend within the 3rd Infantry Division.
York, Alvin C., Sergeant. (1887-1964).
Alvin Cullum York was born on December 13, 1887 at Pall Mall, Fentress County, Tenessee, the third of eleven children of William and Mary Brooks York. The tall, gangly red-headed lad was typical of rural American youth of the turn of the century, working hard and playing hard. Growing up in the mountains, Alvin, like most of his contemporaries, lived by his rifle. To young Alvin, the rifle was not a weapon to be used in a fight, but a tool to put meat on the table. He became an expert marksman, and won many a county turkey-shoot. His skill with the rifle was to play a major role in his fame.
Alvin's father died in 1911, leaving Alvin the oldest son at home to help his mother raise a large family. The young man became a hard-drinking, gambling roughneck, until he met Gracie Williams in about 1915. Due mostly to Gracie's influence, he became a member (and soon an elder) of the strict pacifist Church of Christ in Christian Union. Just as Alvin was beginning to feel he had a grip on life, his draft notice arrived. On November 15, 1917, he reported for military duty at Camp Gordon, Georgia.
His last days as a civilian were a difficult ones for Alvin. The frank mountain man faced a dilemma: his religion told him not to go to war, and his patriotism told him he should. After two days and a night spent in prayer on a mountainside, York resolved to go.
York arrived in the front lines in France on June 27, 1918, but his appointment with destiny came on October 8, 1918, in the Argonne forest. York, by then a Corporal, was ordered to take his squad on a surprise attack against an emplacement of German machine guns. They surprised a group of 15 - 20 Germans, including a Major, and took them prisoners without a shot. But the Major called out in German, and suddenly York's squad was under fire from a ridge less than 30 yards away. With all but two of his squad killed, York "exchanged shots" with the machine gunners. York wrote in his diary: "There were over 30 of them in continuous action and all I could do was touch the Germans off as fast as I could. I was sharpshooting. I don't think I missed a shot. It was no time to miss." Suddenly, a German Lieutenant and five soldiers jumped from a trench and charged him with fixed bayonets, York took cool aim and shot the last man first, then the man next farthest away, and so on, until all six had fallen.
Finally, the German Major offered to surrender his entire command, if York would "just stop shooting." Upon return to Allied lines, it was determined that York had taken 132 prisoners. The next morning, 28 dead Germans were found at the scene of the fight: the same number of shots York said that he fired. 35 German machine guns and assorted small arms and ammunition were also captured. Returning to the scene of his "triumph," York prayed for those who had died, German and American alike. For his exploits, York was awarded The Medal of Honor, as well as the the French Croix de Guerre, the Italian Croce de Guera, and the American Distinguished Service Cross. He was also promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
After the War, Sgt. York returned to his Tennessee mountains and his beloved Gracie. They married on June 7, 1919, a week and a day after Alvin's return. He determined that it was his mission in life to bring education to his native valley, and set about to raise the money to build a high school (now the Alvin C. York Technical Institute) and a Bible school. Alvin and Gracie raised 7 children. For 35 years, he hunted, he farmed, he did some blacksmithing, and he preached. In 1954, Alvin York suffered a devastating cerebral hemorrhage, and was an invalid for the last ten years of his life.
Sgt. Alvin C. York died at the Veterans Hospital in Nashville on September 2, 1964, at the age of 76. He is buried in the family plot in the Wolf River Cemetary in Pall Mall, Tennessee.
What did Dr Alvin Boyd Kuhn mean when he said the following......?
The Bible itself is the principal evidence that Jesus Christ is a historical person. The record in the Gospels is not a vague narrative of events at some unspecified time and in an unnamed location. It clearly states time and place in great detail. For an example, see Luke 3:1, 2, 21-23.
The first-century Jewish historian Josephus referred to the stoning of “James, the brother of Jesus who was called the Christ.” (The Jewish Antiquities, Josephus, Book XX, sec. 200) A direct and very favorable reference to Jesus, found in Book XVIII, sections 63, 64, has been challenged by some who claim that it must have been either added later or embellished by Christians; but it is acknowledged that the vocabulary and the style are basically those of Josephus, and the passage is found in all available manuscripts.
Tacitus, a Roman historian who lived during the latter part of the first century C.E., wrote: “Christus [Latin for “Christ”], from whom the name [Christian] had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus.”—The Complete Works of Tacitus (New York, 1942), “The Annals,” Book 15, par. 44.
With reference to early non-Christian historical references to Jesus, The New Encyclopædia Britannica states: “These independent accounts prove that in ancient times even the opponents of Christianity never doubted the historicity of Jesus, which was disputed for the first time and on inadequate grounds by several authors at the end of the 18th, during the 19th, and at the beginning of the 20th centuries.”—(1976), Macropædia, Vol. 10, p. 145.
Josephus was Jewish. Pliny, Tacitus & Suetonius were Roman. The Jews and Romans were enemies of the Christians. It is amazing that any of them would refer to Jesus at all. So, if there is 40 or 50 lines in their texts confirming his existence, that's pretty conclusive.
Also, is our calendar based on the birth of a fictitious person?
Did people allow themselves to be thrown to lions because of a figment of someone's imagination?
Many atheists accept that their was a man who existed called Jesus. They merely believe that he was a good man, but that's it. However, Jesus made prophecies regarding the 'last days'. If he wasn't real, we wouldn't be seeing all the signs of his presence unfolding now. (Matthew chapter 24).
