What happened on May 27? There are more than 279 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About May 27
May 27 is the 148th day of the year 2024. There are 218 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 22nd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Green Camp, Ohio 43322 sunrise will occur at 06:04 AM and sunset will occur at 08:55 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Emerald while the mystical birthstone is Sapphire.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 247 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For May 27
- 927Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: the Croatian army, led by King Tomislav, defeats the Bulgarian Army.
- 1120Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
- 1153Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
- 1703Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
- 1798The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
- 1799War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town’s location at the junction of seven cross-roads.
- 1812Bolivian War of Independence: In Bolivia, the Battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fight against the Spanish army.
- 1813War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
- 1849The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
- 1860Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
- 1863American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
- 1883Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
- 1896The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 USD).
- 1905Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
- 1907Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
- 1919The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
- 1927The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
- 1930The 1046 ft Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
- 1933New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
- 1933The Century of Progress World’s Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1933The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
- 1935New 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).
- 1937In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
- 1940World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops. Two survive.
- 1941World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
- 1941World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an “unlimited national emergency”.
- 1942World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague.
- 1957Toronto‘s CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada’s first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n’Roll music format.
- 1958The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
- 1960In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
- 1962The Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire starts.
- 1965Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
- 1967Australians 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.
- 1967The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
- 1968The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
- 1971The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
- 1975Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
- 1980The 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.
- 1986the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, Dragon Quest is released in Japan.
- 1995In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
- 1996First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
- 1997The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
- 1998Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
- 1999The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
- 2001Members of Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an upscale island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
- 2005Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.
- 2005The first year of the Tunisian American Day, which became a yearly event
- 2006The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes 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.
Who Were Born On May 27?
- 1332Ibn Khaldun, Arab polymath (d. 1406)
- 1519Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594)
- 1576Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649)
- 1601Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1648)
- 1623William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
- 1626William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
- 1651Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)
- 1652Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1722)
- 1738Nathaniel Gorham, 8th President of the United States in Congress Assembled (d. 1796)
- 1756King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1825)
- 1794Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
- 1818Amelia Bloomer, American suffragette (d. 1894)
- 1819Julia Ward Howe, American poet (The Battle Hymn of the Republic) (d. 1910)
- 1820Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
- 1827Samuel F. Miller, New York representative to the U.S. House of Representatives (d. 1892)
- 1836Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
- 1837Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
- 1837Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
- 1860Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
- 1864Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (d. 1938)
- 1867Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
- 1871Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
- 1876Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (d. 1945)
- 1876Sir William Stanier, British railway engineer (d. 1965)
- 1879Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962)
- 1879Karl Bühler, German linguist and psychologist (d. 1963)
- 1884Max Brod, Czech-born writer, literary executor of Franz Kafka (d. 1968)
- 1888Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
- 1891Claude Champagne, French-Canadian composer (d. 1965)
- 1893Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentenarian (d. 2005)
- 1894Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961)
- 1894Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
- 1897John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
- 1900Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
- 1904Chūhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
- 1906Antonio Rosario Mennonna, Italian Catholic bishop (d. 2009)
- 1906Buddhadasa, Thai Bhikkhu and philosopher (d. 1993)
- 1907Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and art critic (d. 1988)
- 1907Rachel Carson, American biologist and science writer (d. 1964)
- 1909Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist
- 1911Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States and Senator from Minnesota (d. 1978)
- 1911Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician (d. 2007)
- 1911Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1912John Cheever, American author (d. 1982)
- 1912Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)
- 1912Terry Moore, American baseball player (d. 1995)
- 1913Wols, German painter (d. 1951)
- 1915Esther Soré, Chilean musician (d. 1996)
- 1915Herman Wouk, American writer
- 1918Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician
- 1921Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (d. 1960)
- 1922Christopher Lee, English actor
- 1923Henry Kissinger, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1923Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
- 1924Ernest Ingenito, American mass murderer (d. 1995)
- 1925Tony Hillerman, American writer (d. 2008)
- 1930John Barth, American novelist
- 1930William S. Sessions, 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- 1932Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress
- 1933Manfred Sommer, Spanish comic artist (d. 2007)
- 1933Ted Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur (d. 2008)
- 1934Harlan Ellison, American author
- 1935Lee Meriwether, Miss America (1955) and actress
- 1935Mal Evans, British road manager of The Beatles (d. 1976)
- 1935Ramsey Lewis, American pianist
- 1936Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
- 1936Marcel Masse, Canadian politician
- 1937Allan Carr, American film producer and writer (d. 1999)
- 1939Don Williams, American country singer
- 1939Socratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman
- 1942Lee Baca, American law enforcement official
- 1943Bruce Weitz, American actor
- 1943Cilla Black, English singer and presenter
- 1944Alain Souchon, French singer and songwriter
- 1944Christopher Dodd, American politician, senior Senator from Connecticut
- 1945Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
- 1946Lewis Collins, English actor
- 1946Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (d. 2005)
- 1947Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
- 1948Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
- 1951Ana Belén, Spanish singer and actress
- 1954Jackie Slater, American football player
- 1954Pauline Hanson, Australian politician
- 1955Eric Bischoff, American professional wrestling promoter
- 1955Richard Schiff, American actor
- 1956Cynthia McFadden, American television anchor
- 1957Duncan Goodhew, English Olympic swimmer, 1980 gold medalist
- 1957Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
- 1958Linnea Quigley, American actress
- 1958Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter (Split Enz, Crowded House)
- 1961Peri Gilpin, American actress
- 1962Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer
- 1962Ray Borner, Australian basketball player
- 1962Steven Brill, American film writer and director
- 1964Adam Carolla, American comedian and television personality
- 1964Zheng Geping, Singaporean actor
- 1965Pat Cash, Australian tennis player
- 1965Todd Bridges, American actor
- 1966Heston Blumenthal, British chef and restaurateur
- 1967Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
- 1968Frank E. Thomas, American baseball player
- 1968Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
- 1968Rebekah Brooks, English journalist and newspaper editor
- 1969Dondre Whitfield, American actor
- 1969Jeremy Mayfield, American race car driver
- 1969Todd Hundley, American baseball player
- 1970Cherry Pie Picache, Filipino actress
- 1970Joseph Fiennes, English actor
- 1970Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
- 1970Tim Farron, British politician
- 1971Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman
- 1971Kaur Kender, Estonian author
- 1971Lee Sharpe, English Footballer
- 1971Lisa Lopes, American singer (TLC) (d. 2002)
- 1971Mathew Batsiua, Nauruan politician
- 1971Monika Schnarre, Canadian model and actress
- 1971Paul Bettany, English actor
- 1971Wayne Carey, Australian rules footballer
- 1972Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer
- 1972Todd Demsey, American golfer
- 1973Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian
- 1973Tana Umaga, New Zealand rugby union player
- 1974Danny Wuerffel, American football player
- 1974Derek Webb, American singer and songwriter (Caedmon’s Call)
- 1974Jason Narvy, American actor
- 1975André 3000, American rapper (OutKast)
- 1975Jadakiss, American rapper (D-Block)
- 1975Jamie Oliver, English chef and television personality
- 1975Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer
- 1976RJD2, American hip-hop producer
- 1977Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete
- 1977Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1977Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch footballer
- 1978Adin Brown, American footballer
- 1979Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
- 1979Stuart Manning, British actor
- 1980Craig Buntin, Canadian figure skater
- 1981Özgür Çevik, Turkish singer and actor
- 1981Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot distance and cross country runner
- 1981Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
- 1981Marcelo Bonan. Brazilian footballer
- 1981Miloy, Angolan footballer
- 1982Michael de Grussa, Australian Singer/Songwriter
- 1982Nattie Neidhart, Canadian professional wrestler
- 1983Bobby Convey, American footballer
- 1984Blake Ahearn, American basketball player
- 1984Darin Brooks, American actor
- 1984Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player
- 1985Chiang Chien-ming, Taiwanese baseball player
- 1985Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer
- 1986Conor Cummins, Manx motorbike racer
- 1986Timo Descamps, Flemish actor and singer
- 1987Eric Kolelas, French actor
- 1987Gervinho, Ivorian footballer
- 1990Chris Colfer, American actor
- 1991Ksenia Pervak, Russian tennis player
- 1997Danny McKinnon, Canadian actor
Who Died On May 27?
- 366Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
- 866King Ordoño I of Asturias (b. 831)
- 927Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria (b. 864 or 865)
- 1039Dirk III, Count of Holland (b. between 981 and 989)
- 1444John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
- 1508Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)
- 1525Thomas Müntzer, German rebel leader (b. c. 1488)
- 1541Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473)
- 1564John Calvin, French religious reformer (b. 1509)
- 1610François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
- 1615Margaret of Valois, Queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
- 1661Archibald Campbell, Scottish religious dissident (b. 1607)
- 1675Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
- 1690Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b. 1626)
- 1702Dominique Bouhours, French essayist and critic (b. 1628)
- 1707Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640)
- 1781Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716)
- 1797François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (b. 1760)
- 1831Jedediah Strong Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
- 1840Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
- 1896Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
- 1910Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1843)
- 1918Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (b. 1869)
- 1919Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social activist (b. 1848)
- 1926Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
- 1941Ernst Lindemann, German captain, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (b. 1894)
- 1941Gunther Lutjens, German admiral, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (b. 1889)
- 1945Enno Lolling, German SS-Standartenführer died by suicide (b. 1888)
- 1947Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
- 1949Robert Ripley, American cartoonist (Ripley’s Believe It or Not!) (b. 1890)
- 1953Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (b. 1868)
- 1960James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (b. 1877)
- 1963Gregoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)
- 1964Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (b. 1889)
- 1967Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
- 1967W. Otto Miessner, American composer and music educator (b. 1880)
- 1969Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926)
- 1973P.Ramlee, Malaysian actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1922)
- 1986Giorgos Tzifos, Greek actor (b. 1918)
- 1986Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921)
- 1987John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
- 1989Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
- 1990Robert B. Meyner, 44th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1908)
- 1991Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
- 1992Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
- 1993Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)
- 1993Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
- 1994Charles Rodman Campbell, Executed American rapist and killer (b. 1954)
- 1997Matt Gunther, American pornographic actor (b. 1963)
- 2000Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
- 2000Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
- 2000Sir Crawford Murray MacLehose, Scottish statesman, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)
- 2001Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929)
- 2003Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
- 2006Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
- 2006Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
- 2006Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (b. 1944)
- 2006Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
- 2006Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949)
- 2007Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
- 2007Gretchen Wyler, American actress (b. 1932)
- 2007Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (b. 1967)
- 2008Franz Künstler, last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (b. 1900)
- 2009Abram Hoffer, Canadian Orthomolecular psychiatrist (b. 1917)
- 2009Carol Anne O'Marie, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist (b. 1933)
- 2009Gérard Jean-Juste, Roman Catholic priest and Haitian political activist (b. 1946)
- 2009Paul Sharratt, British-born American television producer (b. 1933)
- 2009Sir Clive Granger, British economist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1934)
- 2009Sir William Refshauge, Australian public health administrator (b. 1913)
- 2009Thomas Franck, American lawyer (b. 1931)
- 2010Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator (b. 1929)
- 2011Gil Scott-Heron, American poet, musician and author (b. 1949)
- 2011Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950)
- 2011Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)
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