This Day In History

May 27
1703
Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1883
Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1960
In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1965
Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1980
The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1996
First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1999
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Miloševiæ and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.