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May 27 is the 147th day (148th in Leap Year s) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar , with 218 days remaining.
Events
- 1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France .
- 1703 - Tsar Peter The Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg .
- , American forces capture Fort George .
- 1849 - The Great Hall of Euston Station , London opened.
- 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo , Sicily , as part of the Italian Unification .
- 1883 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia .
- 1895 - Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for Sodomy .
- 1896 - The F4 -strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois , killing at least 255 people and incurring $2.9 billion in damages (1997USD).
- 1901 - In New Jersey , the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
- begins.
- 1907 - A Bubonic Plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California .
- 1919 - The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first Transatlantic flight.
- 1923 - The first 24 Hours Of Le Mans race ends.
- 1924 - The Music Corporation Of America (MCA) is founded.
- 1927 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model A s.
- 1930 - The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
- 1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
- Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission .
- 1933 - The Walt Disney Company releases the Cartoon '' The Three Little Pigs '', with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
- 1933 - The Century Of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois .
- 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 .
- 1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman , one of the most topical Comic Book superheroes of all time.
- unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk . The German commander, Captain Fritz Knoechlein , is eventually hanged for War Crimes .
- President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
- 1941 - World War II: The German battleship '' Bismarck '' is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300 men.
- - assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague .
- 1960 - In Turkey , General Cemal Gürsel leads a military Coup D'état removing President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government.
- 1963 - Folk Music singer Bob Dylan releases '' The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan '' album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.
- 1964 - Prime Minister Of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.
- warships begin bombardments of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.
- 1968 - Future U.S. President George W. Bush enlists in the Texas Air National Guard .
- 1974 - Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France .
- retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
- 1995 - In Charlottesville, Virginia , actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his Horse in a riding competition.
- n President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnya n rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.
- 1997 - The F5 -strength Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas , killing 27 people.
- is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the Terrorist plot.
- 1999 - The International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia in The Hague , Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for War Crime s and Crimes Against Humanity committed in Kosovo .
Births
- 1332 - Ibn Khaldun , Tunisian historian (d. 1406 )
- 1519 - Girolamo Mei , Italian humanist historian (d. 1594 )
- 1576 - Caspar Schoppe , German scholar (d. 1649 )
- 1623 - William Petty , English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687 )
- 1626 - William II, Prince Of Orange (d. 1650 )
- 1651 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal De Noailles , French cardinal (d. 1729 )
- 1652 - Liselotte Von Der Pfalz , Duchess of Orléans (d. 1722 )
- 1738 - Nathaniel Gorham , American politician (d. 1796 )
- 1756 - King Maximilian I Of Bavaria (d. 1825 )
- 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt , American entrepreneur (d. 1877 )
- 1819 - Julia Ward Howe , American composer (d. 1910 )
- 1836 - Jay Gould , American financier (d. 1892 )
- 1837 - Wild Bill Hickok , American gunfighter (d. 1876 )
- 1864 - Ante Trumbić , Croatian politician (d. 1938 )
- 1867 - Arnold Bennett , British novelist (d. 1931 )
- 1871 - Georges Rouault , French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958 )
- 1876 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski , Polish writer (d. 1945 )
- 1877 - Isadora Duncan , American dancer (d. 1927 )
- 1884 - Max Brod , Austrian author (d. 1968 )
- 1888 - Louis Durey , French composer (d. 1979 )
- 1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline , French writer (d. 1961 )
- 1894 - Dashiell Hammett , American author (d. 1961 )
- 1897 - John Cockcroft , British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967 )
- 1904 - Chuhei Nambu , Japanese athlete (b. 1997 )
- 1907 - Rachel Carson , American ecologist (d. 1964 )
- 1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey , Vice President Of The United States (d. 1978 )
- 1911 - Teddy Kollek , Mayor of Jerusalem
- 1911 - Vincent Price , American actor (d. 1993 )
- 1912 - John Cheever , American author (d. 1982 )
- 1912 - Sam Snead , American golfer (d. 2002 )
- 1913 - Wols , German painter
- 1915 - Herman Wouk , American writer
- 1917 - Yasuhiro Nakasone , Prime Minister Of Japan
- 1922 - Christopher Lee , English actor
- 1923 - Henry Kissinger , United States Secretary Of State , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1923 - Sumner Redstone , American entrepreneur
- 1925 - Tony Hillerman , American writer
- 1930 - John Barth , American novelist
- 1933 - Ted Rogers , Canadian entrepreneur
- 1934 - Harlan Ellison , American author
- 1935 - Lee Meriwether , American beauty queen and actress
- 1936 - Louis Gossett Jr. , American actor
- 1937 - Allan Carr , American film producer and writer (d. 1999 )
- 1943 - Cilla Black , English singer
- 1943 - Bruce Weitz , American actor
- 1945 - Bruce Cockburn , Canadian musician
- 1946 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , Danish musician (d. 2005 )
- 1947 - Branko Oblak , Slovenian football player
- 1955 - Eric Bischoff , American professional wrestling personality
- 1957 - Siouxsie Sioux , English musician ( Siouxsie And The Banshees )
- 1958 - Neil Finn , New Zealand singer and songwriter
- 1958 - Linnea Quigley , American actress
- 1961 - Peri Gilpin , American actress
- 1964 - Adam Carolla , American comedian and radio/television personality
- 1967 - Paul Gascoigne , former British footballer
- 1968 - Jeff Bagwell , baseball player
- 1968 - Frank Thomas , baseball player
- 1970 - Tim Farron , British politician
- 1970 - Joseph Fiennes , English actor
- 1971 - Paul Bettany , English actor
- 1971 - Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes , American singer (d. 2002 )
- 1974 - Derek Webb , American singer and songwriter ( Caedmon's Call )
- 1974 - Danny Wuerffel , American football player
- 1975 - Andre 3000 , American musician ( OutKast )
- 1975 - Jamie Oliver , British chef and television personality
Deaths
- 366 - Procopius , Roman usurper (executed)
- 866 - Ordoño I , King of Asturias
- 927 - Tsar Simeon I Of Bulgaria
- 1444 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke Of Somerset , English military leader (b. 1404 )
- 1508 - Ludovico Sforza , Duke of Milan (b. 1452 )
- 1525 - Thomas Muentzer , German rebel leader
- 1541 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess Of Salisbury (executed) (b. 1473 )
- 1564 - John Calvin , French religious reformer (b. 1509 )
- 1610 - François Ravaillac , French assassin of Henry IV Of France (b. 1578 )
- 1661 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess Of Argyll , Scottish religious dissident (executed) (b. 1607 )
- 1675 - Gaspard Dughet , French painter (b. 1613 )
- 1690 - Giovanni Legrenzi , Italian composer (b. 1626 )
- 1702 - Dominique Bouhours , French critic (b. 1628 )
- 1707 - Marquise De Montespan , French mistress of Louis XIV Of France (b. 1641 )
- 1781 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria , Italian physicist (b. 1716 )
- 1797 - François-Noël Babeuf , French revolutionary and early socialist (b. 1760 )
- 1831 - Jedediah Smith , American explorer (b. 1799 )
- 1840 - Nicolò Paganini , Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782 )
- 1896 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov , Russian physicist (b. 1839 )
- 1910 - Robert Koch , German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1843 )
- 1926 - Srečko Kosovel , Slovenian poet (b. 1904 )
- 1960 - James Montgomery Flagg , American illustrator (b. 1877 )
- 1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru , Indian politician (b. 1889 )
- 1986 - Isma'il Raji' Al-Faruqi , Palestinian-born philosopher and comparative religion scholar (b. 1921)
- 1987 - John Howard Northrop , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891 )
- 1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky , Russian poet (b. 1907 )
- 1991 - Leopold Nowak , Austrian musicologist (b. 1904 )
- 1991 - Rajiv Gandhi , former Prime Minister of India, assassinated by Tamil terrorists (b. 1944 )
- 1992 - Uncle Charlie Osborne , American fiddler (b. 1890 )
- 1993 - Mary Philbin , American actress (b. 1903 )
- 1993 - Werner Stocker , German actor (b. 1955 )
- 2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose Of Beoch , British Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917 )
- 2000 - Maurice Richard , Canadian hockey player (b. 1921 )
- 2001 - Ramon Bieri , American actor (b. 1929 )
- 2003 - Luciano Berio , Italian composer (b. 1925 )
Holidays and observances
External links
May 26 - May 28 - April 27 - June 27 – Listing Of All Days
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