Today in History - History - May 27th

1997Russian Pres Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO

1969Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV

1938Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of English season, earliest to do so

1975Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"

1963Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st Prime Minister of Kenya

1979Pope John Paul II ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop

1942Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered

1986President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled

1990Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic

1941FDR declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor

1837"Wild Bill" Hickok, [James Butler], cowboy/scout

1912Sam Snead, Hot Springs VA, PGA golfer (PGA-1963, 65, 67, 70, 72, 73)

1922Christopher Lee, Westminster, London, English actor (The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, The Hobbit film trilogy)

1970Joseph Fiennes, Salisbury, Wiltshire, English actor (Enemy at the Gates, Shakespeare in Love)

1965Pat Cash, Melbourne Australia, tennis player (Wimbledon 1987)

1923Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State (1973-77)/Nobel Peace Prize (1973)

2012Actress Cynthia Nixon (46) weds education activist Christine Marinoni in New York City

1916Naval commander Karl Donitz (24) weds nurse Ingeborg Weber

2009Clive Granger, Swansea, Wales, Welsh-born British economist, dies at 74

2000Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)

1910Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies at 66

1508Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan, dies at 55