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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