May
27
May
27 Events
927 – Battle
of the Bosnian Highlands: the Croatian army, led by King Tomislav,
defeats the Bulgarian Army.
1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks
before his untimely death.
1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
1799 – War 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.
1812 – Bolivian War of Independence: In Bolivia, the Battle
of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fight against
the Spanish army.
1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort
George.
1849 – The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily,
as part of the Italian Unification.
1863 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate
works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
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 causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997
USD).
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing
the first transatlantic flight.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford
Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
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.
1933 – New Deal: The U.S. 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 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.
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).
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian
traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin
County, California.
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.
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.
1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich
is assassinated in Prague.
1957 – Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first
radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
1958 – The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar
and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1962 – The Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire starts.
1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment
of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
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.
1968 – The 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.
1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident
in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1975 – Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire,
England kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident
in the United Kingdom.
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.
1986 – the game credited as setting the template for role-playing
video games, Dragon Quest is released in Japan.
1995 – In Culpeper, 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.
1997 – The unusual 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak Jarrell,
Texas
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue
her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton
while he is in office.
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 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.
2001 – Members 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.
2005 – Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment
in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.
2005 – The first year of the Tunisian American Day, which became
a yearly event
2006 – The 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.
Holidays
and observances
Armed Forces
Day (Nicaragua)
Children's Day (Nigeria)
Christian Feast Day:
Augustine of Canterbury
Bruno of Würzburg
Eutropius of Orange
Hildebert
Julius the Veteran
May 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Mother's Day or Día de la Madre (Bolivia)
Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin)
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