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On this day: May 27The SCOTUS declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. (1935)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency" (1941)
b: Hans Lammers (1879), Henry Kissinger (1923), Christopher Dodd (1944); d: François-Noël Babeuf (1797), Ernst Niekisch (1967)



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On this day: May 26The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote (1868)
Russia and the U.K. sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state (1879)
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2 (1970)
President Barack Obama nominates federal judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Supreme Court justice David Souter (2009)
b: Moondog (1918), János Kádár (1912); d: Theodore Morell (1948), Martin Heidegger (1976)



On this day: May 25The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins (1936)
The first public television station in the U.S. officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston (1953)
The U.S. House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades (1999)
b: Walter Duranty (1884), Josip Broz Tito (1892); d: William B. Wilson (1934), Georg von Küchler (1968)
