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Year | Name |
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2018 | Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn. |
2017 | Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. |
2016 | Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha. |
2006 | The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured. |
2001 | 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. |
1998 | 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. |
1997 | The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell. |
1996 | First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire. |
1988 | Somaliland War of Independence: Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then second and third largest cities of Somalia.[8] |
1984 | The Danube–Black Sea Canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s. |
1980 | 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. |
1977 | A plane crash at José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, kills 67. |
1975 | Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom. |
1971 | The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal. |
1971 | Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre. |
1967 | Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census. |
1967 | The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline. |
1965 | Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam. |
1962 | The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine. |
1960 | In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office. |
1958 | First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. |
1950 | The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.[5] |
1942 | World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later. |
1941 | World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency". |
1941 | World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing almost 2,100 men. |
1940 | World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive. |
1937 | In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California. |
1935 | New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495). |
1933 | New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission. |
1930 | The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public. |
1927 | The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A. |
1919 | The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight. |
1917 | Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church. |
1915 | HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks off Sheerness, Kent, with the loss of 352 lives. |
1905 | Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins. |
1896 | The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage. |
1883 | Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia. |
1874 | The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria. |
1863 | American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson. |
1860 | Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification. |
1813 | War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George. |
1799 | War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland. |
1798 | The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia. |
1703 | Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg. |
1644 | Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing. |
1257 | Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral. |
1199 | John is crowned King of England. |
1153 | Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland. |
1120 | Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. |
1096 | Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens.[1] At least 600 Jews are killed. |
Here is a random list who born on May 27. For full list please click on the link above.
Year | Name |
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1946 | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer (d. 2005) |
1917 | Harry Webster, English engineer (d. 2007) |
1898 | David Crosthwait, American engineer, inventor and writer (d. 1976) |
1971 | Petroc Trelawny, British radio and television broadcaster |
1936 | Marcel Masse, Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 2014) |
1963 | Maria Walliser, Swiss skier |
1956 | Rosemary Squire, English producer and manager, co-founded Ambassador Theatre Group |
1972 | Todd Demsey, American golfer |
1962 | Anthony A. Hyman, Israeli-English biologist and academic |
1969 | Jeremy Mayfield, American race car driver |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on May 27. For full list please click on the link above.
Date | Name |
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1707 | Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640) |
927 | Simeon I of Bulgaria first Bulgarian Emperor (b. 864) |
1039 | Dirk III, Count of Holland (b. 981) |
2018 | Gardner Dozois, American science fiction author and editor (b. 1947) |
1960 | James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (b. 1877) |
1986 | Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and academic (b. 1921) |
1541 | Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473) |
1045 | Bruno of Würzburg, imperial chancellor of Italy (b. c. 1005) |
2020 | Larry Kramer, American playwright, public health advocate and LGBT rights activist (b. 1935) |
1610 | François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578) |