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May 27

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May 27 is the 147th day of the year(148th inleap years) in theGregorian calendar.There are 218 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

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Up to 1930

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1153–Malcolm IV of Scotland becomesKing.
1199– KingJohn of England is crowned.
1293– A massiveearthquake hitsKamakura,Japan.
1328–Philip VI is crowned King ofFrance.
1644–Manchu regentDorgon defeats rebel leaderLi Zicheng of theShun Dynasty at theBattle of Shanhai Pass, allowing theManchus to enter and conquerBeijing.
1703–Tsar Peter the Great founds the city ofSaint Petersburg.
1799– War of the Second Coalition:Austrian forces defeat the French atWinterthur,Switzerland, securing control of the Northeast Swiss plateau because of thetown's location at the junction of the seven cross–roads.
1813–War of 1812: InCanada,American forces captureFort George.
1849– The Great Hall ofEuston station,London opened.
1860–Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack onPalermo,Sicily, as part of theItalian Unification.
1883–Alexander III is crownedTsar ofRussia.
1895–Oscar Wilde is sent to prison forsodomy.
1896– TheF5–strengthEast St. Louis Tornado hits inEast Saint Louis, Illinois, andSt. Louis, Missouri, killing 255 people.
1901– InNew Jersey, theEdison Storage Battery Company is founded.
1905–Russo-Japanese War: TheBattle of Tsushima begins.
1907– Abubonic plague outbreak begins inSan Francisco, California.
1915– OffSheerness, minelayerPrincess Irene runs over laid mines and explodes, killing 400 people.
1919– TheNC-4 aircraft arrives inLisbon after completing the firsttransatlantic flight.
1923– The first24 hours of Le Mans race ends.
1924– TheMusic Corporation of America (MCA) is founded.
1927– TheFord Motor Company stops making theFord Model T and gets ready to makeFord Model As.
1930– The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tallChrysler Building inNew York (tallest man–made structure at the time) opens to the public.

1931– 2000

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1932– TheSydney Harbour Bridge opens.
1933–New Deal: TheU.S.Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with theFederal Trade Commission.
1933–The Walt Disney Company releases thecartoonThe Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1933– TheCentury of Progress World's Fair opens inChicago.
1934– The1934 FIFA World Cup inItaly begins, with a series of knock–out games.
1935– New Deal: TheSupreme Court of the United States declares theNational Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the caseA.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1936– TheRMSQueen Mary begins her first voyage.
1937– InCalifornia, theGolden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link betweenSan Francisco andMarin County.
1939–DC Comics prints its second superhero inDetective Comics #27; he isBatman, one of the most topicalcomic book superheroes of all time.
1940–World War II: 97 out of 99 members of aRoyal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender atDunkirk. TheGerman commander, CaptainFritz Knochlein, is later hanged forwar crimes.
1941–World War II:US President Franklin Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941– World War II: The German battleshipBismarck is sunk in theNorth Atlantic killing 2,300 men.
1942– World War II:Nazi officialReinhard Heydrich is wounded inPrague and dies over a week later.
1960– InTurkey, GeneralCemal Gürsel leads a militarycoup d'état removing PresidentCelal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government.
1963–Folk music singerBob Dylan releasesThe Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best–known songs.
1964–Prime Minister ofIndia Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.
1965–Vietnam War:United States warships begin bombing ofNational Liberation Front targets withinSouth Vietnam for the first time.
1967–Australians vote to change theConstitution to giveIndigenous Australians equal rights
1968– FutureU.S. President George W. Bush joins theTexas Air National Guard.
1971– The Dahlerautrain disaster nearWuppertal, then–West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25.
1974–Jacques Chirac becomesPrime Minister of France.
1975– The DibblesBridge coach crash near Grassington,North Yorkshire,England, kills 33 people, in theUnited Kingdom's deadliest–ever road accident.
1980– TheGwangju Massacre: air force and army troops ofSouth Korea retake the city ofGwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1995– InCharlottesville, Virginia, actorChristopher Reeve is paralyzed (not able to move) from the neck down after falling from hishorse in a riding competition.
1996–First Chechnya War:Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets withChechnyan rebels for the first time and agrees to a cease–fire in the war.
1997– TheF5–strengthJarrell Tornado slams into the small town ofJarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
1998–Oklahoma City bombing:Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about theterrorist plot.
1999– TheInternational War Crimes Tribunal inThe Hague,Netherlands chargesSlobodan Milošević and 4 others forwar crimes andcrimes against humanity committed inKosovo.

From 2001

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2005–Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years in jail formarijuana smuggling inIndonesia.
2006– Anearthquake inJava kills over 6,600 people and destroys the cities ofBantul andYogyakarta.
2009– Asuicide bombing kills at least 35 people inLahore,Pakistan.
2015–Football's world governing bodyFIFA is accused by USlaw enforcement officials ofbribery totaling hundreds of dollars over more than 20 years, including a scheme involving the2010 FIFA World Cup inSouth Africa. Fourteen people are arrested, and PresidentSepp Blatter is under pressure over his position.
2016–Barack Obama becomes the first servingPresident of the United States to visitHiroshima and meet victims of theatomic bomb.
2017– Acomputer failure atBritish Airways leads to the airline's flights around the world being cancelled.

Births

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Up to 1900

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742–Emperor Dezong of Tang ofChina (d.805)
1332–Ibn Khaldun, Arab polymath (d.1406)
1519–Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d.1594)
1623–William Petty, Englishscientist andphilosopher (d.1687)
1626–William II, Prince of Orange (d.1650)
1651–Louis Antoine de Noailles, Frenchcardinal (d.1729)
1652–Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (Charlotte Elizabeth, Duchesse d'Orléans) (d.1722)
1738–Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d.1796)
1756– KingMaximilian I Joseph ofBavaria (d.1825)
1774–Francis Beaufort, Irishscientist andadmiral (d.1857)
1794–Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur (d.1877)
1818–Amelia Bloomer, Americanactivist (d.1894)
1818–Franciscus Donders, Dutchophthalmologist (d.1889)
1819–Julia Ward Howe, composer ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic") (d.1910)
1819–George V of Hanover (d.1878)
1820–Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d.1904)
1822–Joachim Raff, Swiss–Germancomposer (d.1882)
1832–Zenas Ferry Moody, Americanpolitician, 7thGovernor ofOregon (d.1917)
1832–Lizardo Montero Flores,President ofPeru (d.1905)
1836–Jay Gould, American financier (d.1892)
1837–Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d.1876)
1860–Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7thPresident ofPortugal (d.1941)
1864–Ante Trumbić,Croat politician (d.1938)
1867–Arnold Bennett,British novelist (d.1931)
1871–Georges Rouault, painter and graphic artist (d.1958)
1876–Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polishjournalist andauthor (d.1945)
1876–William Stanier, Englishengineer (d.1965)
1877–Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d.1927)
1879–Karl Bühler, psychologist (d.1963)
1884–Max Brod, writer (d.1968)
1888–Louis Durey, French composer (d.1979)
1893–Hermann Dörnemann, Germansupercentenarian,world's oldest man fromNovember 19,2004 (d.2005)
1894–Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d.1961)
1894–Dashiell Hammett, American writer (d.1961)
1895–Douglas Lloyd Campbell, 13thPremier of Manitoba (d.1995)
1897–John Cockcroft, Britishphysicist (d.1967)
1900–Ethel Lang, Britishsupercentenarian (d.2015)

1901– 1925

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1902–Fanny Godin, Belgiansupercentenarian (d.2014)
1904–Chohei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d.1997)
1906–Buddhadasa, Thaimonk andphilosopher (d.1993)
1907–Carl Falck, Norwegianbusinessman andcentenarian (d.2016)
1907–Rachel Carson, American ecologist (d.1964)
1909–Dolores Hope, American singer (d.2011)
1909–Don Finlay, English hurdler and pilot (d.1970)
1911–Hubert H. Humphrey, 38thVice President of the United States (d.1978)
1911–Teddy Kollek,Mayor ofJerusalem (d.2007)
1911–Vincent Price, American actor (d.1993)
1912–John Cheever, writer (d.1982)
1912–Sam Snead, Americangolf champion (d.2002)
1913–Wols,German painter (d.1951)
1915–Herman Wouk, American writer (d.2019)
1917–Yasuhiro Nakasone, formerPrime Minister of Japan
1920–Gabrielle Wittkop, Frenchwriter,essayist,journalist andartist (d.2002)
1921–Caryl Chessman, American, executed for murder (d.1960)
1921–Bob Godfrey, English animator (d.2013)
1922–Christopher Lee, English actor (d.2015)
1922–Otto Carius, GermanWorld War II tank commander (d.2015)
1922–John David Vanderhoof, 36thGovernor ofColorado (d.2013)
1923–Henry Kissinger, American politician, 37thUnited States Secretary of State, received theNobel Peace Prize
1923–Inge Morath, Austrian–Americanphotographer (d.2002)
1923–Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
1924–Jaime Lusinchi,President ofVenezuela (d.2014)
1925–Tony Hillerman, Americanmystery writer (d.2008)

1926– 1950

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1928–Thea Musgrave, Scottish–American composer
1930–John Barth, American novelist
1930–Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer (d.2010)
1930–William S. Sessions,FBI director
1931–Faten Hamama, Egyptianactress (d.2015)
1934–Enzo Siciliano, Italianwriter (d.2006)
1934–Harlan Ellison, Americanscience fiction writer (d.2018)
1934–Uwe Friedrichsen, German actor (d.2016)
1935–Lee Meriwether, American actress and formerMiss America
1935–Luud Schimmelpennink, Dutch inventor,entrepreneur and politician
1936–Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
1936–Marcel Masse, Canadian politician (d.2014)
1937–Allan Carr, producer, writer (d.1999)
1940–Mike Gibson, Australiansports journalist (d.2015)
1942–Piers Courage, English racing driver (d.1970)
1943–Cilla Black, English singer (d.2015)
1943–Robert Axelrod, American political scientist
1944–Alain Souchon, Frenchsinger-songwriter,guitarist andauthor
1945–Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
1946–Lewis Collins, English actor (d.2013)
1946–Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danishjazz musician (d.2005)
1947–Henry McMaster, American politician, 117thGovernor ofSouth Carolina
1947–Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
1949–Terry Collins, Americanbaseball manager

1951– 1975

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1951–Ana Belén, Spanish singer and actress
1955–Eric Bischoff, AmericanWWE performer
1956–Giuseppe Tornatore, Italiandirector andscreenwriter
1957–Siouxsie Sioux, English musician ("Siouxsie and the Banshees")
1957–Duncan Goodhew, English swimmer
1958–Jesse Robredo,Filipino politician (d.2012)
1958–Neil Finn,New Zealand singer and songwriter
1958–Linnea Quigley, American actress
1958–Wayne Williams, American child murderer
1959–Donna Strickland, Canadianphysicist
1960–Ray Armstead, American athlete
1961–Peri Gilpin, American actress
1962–David Mundell, Scottish politician
1962–Steven Brill, Americanactor,director,producer andscreenwriter
1962–Ravi Shastri, Indiancricketer and sportscaster
1963–Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Cubanpianist andcomposer
1964–Adam Carolla, Americancomedian,television host and actor
1964–Volker Abramczik, Germanfootballer
1965–Todd Bridges, American actor
1965–Pat Cash, Australiantennis player
1966–Sean Kinney, American drummer (Alice in Chains)
1966–Heston Blumenthal, English chef
1967–Paul Gascoigne, Englishfootballer
1968–Rebekah Brooks, Englishnewspaper editor
1968–Jeff Bagwell, Americanbaseball player
1968–Frank Thomas, Americanbaseball player
1970–Joseph Fiennes, English actor
1970–Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
1970–Tim Farron, English politician
1971–Paul Bettany, English actor
1971–Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, American singer (d.2002)
1971–Sophie Walker, Scottish politician
1971–Lee Sharpe, Englishfootballer
1971–Beatrix von Storch, German politician of theAlternative for Germany Party
1974–Derek Webb, singer–songwriter, former member ofCaedmon's Call
1974–Danny Wuerffel,American football quarterback,Heisman Trophy winner
1975–Jamie Oliver,British celebrity chef and TV personality (The Naked Chef)
1975–Michael Hussey, Australiancricketer
1975–André 3000, Americanrapper,producer andactor

From 1976

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1976–Jiri Stajner, Czech footballer
1977–Mahela Jayawardene,Sri Lankan cricketer
1979–Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
1981–Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
1981–Miloy,Angolan footballer
1981–Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot runner
1983–Bobby Convey, Americansoccer player
1984–Kalle Spjuth, Swedishbandy player
1985–Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer
1987–Gervinho, Ivorian footballer
1988–Birkir Bjarnason, Icelandic footballer
1988–Mari Pokinen, Estonian actress and singer
1989–Igor Morozov,Estonian footballer
1990–Nadine Beiler, Austrian singer
1990–Chris Colfer, American actor
1990–Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Thai actress
1990–Jonas Hector, Germanfootballer
1994–Aymeric Laporte, Frenchfootballer
1999–Lily-Rose Depp, French–American actress
1999–Harambe, American–bredWestern lowland gorilla (d.2016)

Deaths

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Up to 1950

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366–Procopius, Roman usurper (b.326)
866–Ordoño I, king of Asturias
927–Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria
1508–Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b.1452)
1525–Thomas Müntzer, Germantheologian and religious reformer (b.1489)
1541–Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter ofGeorge, Duke of Clarence (executed) (b.1374)
1564–John Calvin, religious reformer (b.1509)
1610–Ravaillac, assassin who killedHenry IV of France (b.1578)
1661–Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, ScottishCovenanter, was beheaded
1707–Marquise de Montespan, mistress ofLouis XIV of France (b.1641)
1797–François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary and early socialist (b.1760)
1831–Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b.1799)
1840–Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b.1782)
1885–Charles Rogier, Belgianpolitician andjournalist (b.1800)
1896–Aleksandr Stoletov, Russianphysicist (b.1839)
1910–Robert Koch,German doctor, won the 1905Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.1843)
1918–Ozutsu Man'emon, Japanesesumo wrestler (b.1869)
1926–Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet
1936–H. P. Hanssen, Danish politician (b.1862)
1939–Joseph Roth, Austrian writer (b.1894)
1941–Ernst Lindemann, Germancaptain (b.1894)
1941–Günther Lütjens, Germanadmiral (b.1889)
1943–Gordon Coates, 21stPrime Minister of New Zealand (b.1878)

1951– 2000

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1960–James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator (b.1877)
1962–Egon Petri, German pianist (b.1881)
1963–Grigoris Lambrakis, Greekphysician andpolitician (b.1912)
1964–Jawaharlal Nehru, 1stPrime Minister ofIndia (b.1889)
1967–W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (b.1880)
1971–Armando Picchi, Italianfootballer and coach (b.1935)
1985–Kai Lindberg, Danish politician (b.1899)
1986–Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian–American Muslim thinker, philosopher, and comparative religion scholar (b. 1921)
1986–Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician,Chief Minister ofWest Bengal (b.1901)
1987–John Howard Northrop, American chemist,Nobel Prize winner (b.1891)
1988–Ernst Ruska, Germanphysicist (b.1906)
1989–Arseny Tarkovsky, Russianpoet (b.1907)
1990–Robert B. Meyner, 40thGovernor ofNew Jersey (b.1908)
1991–Leopold Nowak, musicologist (b.1904)
1993–Werner Stocker, German actor (b.1955)
2000–Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British Governor of Hong Kong (b.1917)
2000–Maurice Richard, Canadianice hockey player (b.1921)

From 2001

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2003–Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b.1925)
2004–Umberto Agnelli, Italianentrepreneur (b.1934)
2007–Zard, Japanese singer (b.1967)
2007–Ed Yost, American inventor (b.1919)
2008–Franz Künstler, last–survivingAustro-Hungarian World War I veteran (b.1900)
2009–Clive Granger, Britisheconomist (b.1934)
2010–John William Finn, American naval officer (b.1909)
2011–Margo Dydek, Polishbasketball player (b.1974)
2011–Jeff Conaway, American actor (b.1950)
2011–Gil Scott-Heron, Americanrapper andpoet (b.1949)
2012–Friedrich Hirzebruch, Germanmathematician (b.1927)
2012–Johnny Tapia, American boxer (b.1967)
2013–Bill Pertwee, British actor (b.1926)
2014–Helma Sanders-Brahms, Germanmovie director,screenwriter,producer andactress (b.1940)
2014–Miodrag Radulovacki, Serbian medical research scientist (b.1933)
2014–Massimo Vignelli, Italian graphic designer (b.1931)
2015–Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (b.1929)
2015–Nils Christie, Norwegiansociologist andcriminologist (b.1928)
2016–Kai G. Henriksen, Norwegian businessman (b.1956)
2016–Marshall Jones, American musician (b.1941)
2017–Gregg Allman, American musician (b.1947)
2017–Don Robinson, Englishrugby league player (b.1932)
2018–Gardner Dozois, American science fiction writer (b.1947)
2018–Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, Egyptian economist and politician,Prime minister ofEgypt (b.1935)
2018–Donald H. Peterson, Americanastronaut (b.1933)
2018–John DiFronzo, American mobster (b.1928)
2019–Bill Buckner, Americanbaseball player (b.1949)
2019–Veeru Devgan, Indianchoreographer, actor and director (b.1934)
2019–Gabriel Diniz, Brazilian singer and composer (b.1990)
2019–Tony Horwitz, American journalist and author (b.1958)
2019–Aharon Razin, Israelibiochemist (b.1935)
2020–Tony Scannell, Irish actor (b.1945)

Observances

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Children's Day (Nigeria)
Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)
Mother's Day (Bolivia)
Navy Day (Japan)

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