June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
Day of death May 27, 1991
The temperature on May 27, 1991 was between 9.5 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
May 24 » Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
August 21 » Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
August 22 » Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.
August 30 » Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
October 11 » Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination.
November 18 » After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
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