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May 27, there are 219 days remaining in the year<\/p>\n
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1647<\/strong>– The first recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged.<\/p>\n 1703<\/strong>– St. Petersburg was founded by Czar Peter the Great.<\/p>\n 1936<\/strong>– The Queen Mary<\/em> left England on its maiden voyage, arriving in France four hours later.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong>– Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong>– British ships sank the German battleship Bismarck<\/em> off the coast of France, resulting in the loss of 2,300 lives.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong>– Nobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong>– 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.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong>– Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague for crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Birthdays<\/strong><\/p>\n 1794<\/strong>– Cornelius Vanderbilt, industrialist, financier<\/p>\n 1819<\/strong>– Julia Ward Howe, author, and social reformer<\/p>\n 1837-<\/strong> “Wild Bill” Hickok, frontier marshal<\/p>\n 1894<\/strong>– Dashiell Hammett, writer<\/p>\n 1907<\/strong>– Rachel Louise Carson, biologist, author<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong>– John Cheever, novelist<\/p>\n 1923<\/strong>– Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMN STAFF May 27, there are 219 days remaining in the year 1647– The first recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-27043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27045,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27043\/revisions\/27045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}