WHAT HAPPENED ON 27. MAY
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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. (27. May 1980)

Dragon Quest, the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, is released in Japan. (27. May 1986)

In Culpeper, Virginia, the actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition. (27. May 1995)

First Chechnya War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire. (27. May 1996)

The unusual tornado outbreak in Jarrell, Texas. (27. May 1997)

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office. (27. May 1997)

Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot. (27. May 1998)

Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002. (27. May 2001)

The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people. (27. May 2006)

A suicide bombing kills at least 35 people and injures 250 more in Lahore, Pakistan. (27. May 2009)

Soyuz TMA-15 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (27. May 2009)