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"Evil finds itself in the large cities, the small cities, the villages."

-- the Rev. Dennis Rogers, whose Danville, Illinois, church was bombed Sunday

A trial will be held for members of the Montana Freemen.
Funeral services will be held for Oregon high-school shooting victim Mikael Nickolauson.

On Wednesday, May 27, Michael Fortier will be sentenced for his role in the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing.
On Thursday, May 28, NATO foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg.
On Friday, May 29, the sentencing of Adam Pletcher of Long Grove, Illinois, is to take place for attempting to extort money from Microsoft head Bill Gates.
On Saturday, May 30, the MTV Movie Awards will be presented in Santa Monica, California.
On Sunday, May 31, Pope John Paul II visits Poland.

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In 1521, the Edict of Worms outlawed Martin Luther and his followers, following his Papal excommunication in April.
In 1659, Aurangzeb formally ascended the Mogul throne.
In 1798, during the Irish Rebellion, the British killed about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara.
In 1805, Napoleon was crowned king of Italy in Milan cathedral.
In 1834, the Portuguese Civil War ended with the capitulation of the pretender, Dom Miguel.
In 1865, the last Confederate resistance of the American Civil War ended when Gen. Kirby Smith surrendered at New Orleans. The Confederates had already signed a surrender on April 9.
In 1868, Irish nationalist Michael Barrett was hanged for a bomb attack at Clerkenwell, London -- the last public execution in England.
In 1868, U.S. President Andrew Johnson was finally acquitted of impeachment charges of "high crimes and misdemeanors."
In 1879, the British and Afghans signed the Treaty of Gandamak giving the British control of the Khyber Pass.
In 1923, the first Le Mans 24-hour motor race was run.
In 1940, Operation Dynamo began to evacuate defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk.
In 1942, Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London, providing for full collaboration during and after World War II.
In 1948, the Nationalist Party took power in South African elections, beating the United Party by 70 seats to 65.
In 1966, British Guiana became an independent member of the Commonwealth, changing its name to Guyana.
In 1971, the Soviet Union's answer to Concorde, the TU-144, made its first appearance in the West at the Paris Air Show.
In 1979, Finnish President Urho Kekkonen appointed a new coalition government with Mauno Koivisto as prime minister.
In 1982, in the Falklands war, the British container ship Atlantic Conveyor and destroyer Coventry were both hit, killing 33.
In 1991, Zviad Gamsakhurdia was elected president of Georgia.
In 1991, an Austrian Lauda-Air Boeing 767 crashed after a stopover in Bangkok, killing 223.
In 1993, the Pakistan supreme court re-instated Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and parliament after they had been dissolved by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
In 1996, Albania's opposition parties pulled out of the election on polling day because of "terror" and manipulation of the poll by the ruling Democratic Party.
In 1997, Australian Prime Minister John Howard made an unexpected personal apology to tens of thousands of Aborigines forcibly taken from their parents under a past government policy of assimilation