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May 27

May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 upto 1899 1.2 1900-1929 1.3 1930-1959 1.4 1960- 2 Births 2.5 upto 1899 2.6 1900-1949 2.7 1950- 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and Observances

Events

upto 1899

• 1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France
• 1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg
• 1813 - War of 1812: In Canada, United States forces capture Fort George
• 1849 - Great Hall of Euston Station, London opened
• 1883 - Alexander III crowned Tsar of Russia
• 1895 - Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for "somdomy"

1900-1929

• 1901 - In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
• 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Tsushima; decisive defeat of Russian fleet.
• 1907 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California
• 1919 - NC-4 arrives in Lisbon, completeing first trans-Atlantic airplane flight
• 1924 - The Music Corporation of America (MCA) is founded
• 1923 - The first 24 hours of Le Mans race ends
• 1927 - Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.

1930-1959

• 1933 - New Deal: The Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission
• 1933 - Disney releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
• 1935 - New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
• 1936 - The RMS Queen Mary begins her maiden voyage
• 1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
• 1940 - World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knochlein, is eventually hanged for war crimes.
• 1941 - World War II: President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency."
• 1941 - World War II: German pocket battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300.

1960-

• 1960 - In Turkey, General Cemal Gürsel leads a military coup d'etat removing President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government
• 1965 - Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombardments of Viet Cong targest within South Vietnam for the first time
• 1968 - George W. Bush enlists in the Texas Air National Guard.
• 1972 - President of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev and President of the United States Richard Nixon sign the SALT I agreements
• 1974 - Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1995 - In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
• 1996 - First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.
• 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.
• 1999 - The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milosevic and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

Births

upto 1899

• 1738 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politican (d.1796)
• 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur (d. 1877)
• 1819 - Julia Ward Howe, composer ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic") (d. 1910)
• 1836 - Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
• 1837 - Wild Bill Hickock, gunfighter (d. 1876)
• 1871 - Georges Rouault, painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
• 1877 or 1878- Isadora Duncan, free form and interpretative dancer (d. 1927)
• 1879 - Karl Bühler, psychologist (d. 1963)
• 1884 - Max Brod, author (d. 1968)
• 1888 - Louis Durey, composer, member of Les Six (d. 1979)
• 1894 - Dashiell Hammett, author of detective novels (d.1961)

1900-1949

• 1904 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete
• 1907 - Rachel Carson, ecologist (d. 1964)
• 1911 - Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jerusalem
• 1911 - Vincent Price, actor (d. 1993)
• 1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey, former Vice President of the United States (d.1978)
• 1912 - Sam Snead, golf champion (d. 2002)
• 1912 - John Cheever, author (d. 1982)
• 1915 - Herman Wouk writer
• 1917 - Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Prime Minister of Japan
• 1921 - Caryl Chessman, murderer (d. 1960)
• 1922 - Christopher Lee, actor
• 1923 - Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973
• 1923 - Sumner Redstone, entrepreneur
• 1925 - Tony Hillerman, mystery writer
• 1934 - Harlan Ellison, science fiction author
• 1936 - Louis Gossett Jr, actor
• 1937 - Allan Carr, producer, writer (d. 1999)
• 1943 - Cilla Black, singer
• 1945 - Bruce Cockburn, musician

1950-

• 1955 - Eric Bischoff, WWE performer
• 1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, musician ("Siouxsie and the Banshees")
• 1958 - Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
• 1958 - Wayne Williams, Atlanta, Georgia child murderer
• 1968 - Jeff Bagwell, baseball star
• 1968 - Frank Thomas, baseball star
• 1970 - Joseph Fiennes, actor
• 1971 - Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, singer (d. 2002)
• 1975 - Jamie Oliver, British chef and TV personality (The Naked Chef)

Deaths

• 927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria
• 1564 - John Calvin, religious reformer
• 1610 - Ravaillac, assassin who killed Henry IV of France
• 1661 - Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, Scottish Covenanter
• 1707 - Marquise de Montespan, mistress of the French King Louis XIV
• 1831 - Jedediah Smith, explorer
• 1840 - Niccolò Paganini, violinist, composer
• 1910 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist
• 1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official
• 1960 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator
• 1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician
• 1991 - Leopold Nowak, musicologist
• 2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, former Hong Kong Governor
• 2000 - Maurice Richard, ice hockey player
• 2003 - Luciano Berio, composer

Holidays and Observances

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See Also:

May 26 -- May 28 -- April 27 -- June 27 -- listing of all days

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