1679 Habeas Corpus Act passes in England, strengthening a person's right to challenge unlawful arrest and imprisonment 1703 Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great 1873 Heinrich Schliemann discovers "Priam's Treasure" a cache of gold and other objects in Hisarlik (Troy) in Anatolia 1905 Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history 1940 British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII 1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st Prime Minister of Kenya 1999 The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo 2006 Earthquake strikes Java, Indonesia at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta, killing over 6,600 people | 
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