[Dingfod]

Dingfod's Addendumdedumdum: May 27:

1647
The first record of an execution of a witch occured in Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged.

1755
The first municipal water pumping plant in America was installed at Bethlehem, Pa., by Hans Christopher Christiansen.

1831
Comanches killed mountain man and explorer Jedediah Smith on the Santa Fe Trail.

1837
Frontier lawman, buffalo hunter, army scout, and gamble, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickock was born in Troy Grove, Illinois.

1873
E.J. McCoy, the famous black American inventor, was issued one of his many patents for a lubricating device (U.S. No. 139,407). His name on these products led to the expression, "the real McCoy," to recognize the leader in quality.

1890
A patent was issued for the coin operated Edison Electric Phonograph, a jukebox.

1919
The first oil well in Britain struck oil at Hardstoft, near Tibshelf, in a Derbyshire coalfield.

1927
Model T Ford #15,007,033 was the last one to roll of the assembly line.

1930
The Chrysler Building in NYC opens.

1931
Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer took man's first trip into the stratosphere when they rode their balloon to an altitude of 51,800 feet.

1932
The Sydney Harbor Bridge opens.

1939
DC Comics introduces its second superhero: Batman.

1961
The first black light was sold.

1968
George Walker Bush enlists in the Texas Air National Guard.

1971
Sweden reveals it has supported North Vietnam with $550K of medical supplies.

1994
Nobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile.

1999
Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague for crimes against humanity.