May 27<\/p>\n
1813 \u2013 During the War of 1812, U.S. forces capture the British Fort George in Canada.<\/p>\n
1896 \u2013 An F4 strength tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage.<\/p>\n
1905 \u2013 During the Russo-Japanese War, the Battle of Tsushima Straight – between Korea and southern Japan –\u00a0 begins. The only decisive sea battle ever fought by modern steel battleship fleets.<\/p>\n
1919 \u2013 The U.S. Navy’s Curtiss NC-4<\/em> aircraft flying from a stop in the Azores, arrives in Lisbon completing the first transatlantic flight.<\/p>\n 1927 \u2013 Having ceased production of the Model T, the Ford Motor Company\u00a0 begins to retool plants to make the Model A.<\/p>\n 1930 \u2013 The 1,046 foot tall Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man made structure at the time, opens to the public.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 As part of the New Deal, President Roosevelt signs the U.S. Federal Securities Act<\/em> is signed into law, requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.<\/p>\n 1935 \u2013 In the case of A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States<\/em>, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act<\/em> to be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 1937 \u2013 The Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, linking San Francisco and Marin County, California.<\/p>\n 1941 – After being severely damaged in combat, the battleship Bismarck<\/em> is scuttled by the Germans as they abandon ship.<\/p>\n 1942 –\u00a0 Doris “Dorie” Miller, the first black man to be so, is awarded the Navy Cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor during the 7 December attacks. 1958 \u2013 With World War II veteran test pilot Robert Little at the controls, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 U.S. Navy 7th Fleet destroyers of Task Group 70.8 begin the first bombardment of Viet Cong targets within South Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 At Newport News, Virginia, the U.S. Navy carrier CV-67, USS John F. Kennedy<\/em> is christened by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 An F5 strength tornado strikes Jarrell, Texas, destroying most of the 38 home Double Creek Estates, killing 27 people and injuring 12 others.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the plot to bomb the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 Barack Hussein Obama is the first U.S. president to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 Heavy rains cause the Patapsco and Tiber rivers in Maryland to flood causing the death of a National Guard solder and severely damaging every building on Main Street in Ellicott City, Maryland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 27 1813 \u2013 During the War of 1812, U.S. forces capture the British Fort George in Canada. 1896 \u2013 An F4 strength tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage. 1905 \u2013 During the Russo-Japanese War, the Battle of Tsushima Straight … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55232"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93202,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55232\/revisions\/93202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOn 19 January, 2020, the Navy announces that CVN-81, a Gerald R. Ford<\/em> Class aircraft carrier, would be named after him.<\/p>\n