On This Day - May 27, A Shot Of History

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1964 - Light goes out in India as Nehru dies
Jawaharlal Nehru, the founder of modern India and its current prime minister, dies suddenly at the age of 74.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0527.html#article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl42GqAJjwY

1647 - Alse Young became the first person executed as a witch in America when she was hanged in Hartford, Conn.
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/may-27/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GpDTzL0Fwc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlEEmmbVDkk

1994 - Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after spending two decades in exile.
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/may-27/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObtP0_Cr7-8

1923 – Henry Kissinger, German-American politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/may-27/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO5RKSwkufI