May 27
May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years ) 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 .
1813 - War of 1812 : In Canada , 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 F5 -strength East St. Louis Tornado hits in East Saint Louis, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri , killing 255 people.
1901 - In New Jersey , the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
1905 - Russo-Japanese War : The Battle of Tsushima ends with the decisive defeat of the Russian fleet.
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 As .
1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
1933 - New Deal : In America The 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 1933 - The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago .
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 : In America President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941 - World War II: The German battleship Bismarck North Atlantic killing 2,300 men.
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 1964 - Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.
1965 - Vietnam War : United States warships begin bombardments of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.
1968 - Future American president 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.
1997 - The F5 -strength Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, 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 the terrorist plot.
1999 - The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague , Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo .
Births
1652 - Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz (Charlotte Elizabeth, Duchesse d'Orléans ), Duchesse d'Orléans and sister-in-law of Louis XIV (d. 1722 )
1738 - Nathaniel Gorham , American politician (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 Hickok , gunfighter (d. 1876 )
1864 - Ante Trumbić , Croat politician (d. 1938 )
1867 - Arnold Bennett , British novelist (d. 1931 )
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 , French composer (d. 1979 )
1893 - Hermann Dornemann , world's oldest man from November 19 , 2004
1894 - Dashiell Hammett , author of detective novels (d. 1961 )
1897 - John Cockcroft British physicist (d. 1967 )
1904 - Chuhei Nambu , Japanese athlete
1907 - Rachel Carson , ecologist (d. 1964 )
1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey , former Vice President of the United States (d. 1978 )
1911 - Teddy Kollek , former mayor of Jerusalem
1911 - Vincent Price , actor (d. 1993 )
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
1930 - John Barth , novelist
1934 - Harlan Ellison , science fiction author
1935 - Lee Meriwether , Catwoman actress and former Miss America
1936 - Louis Gossett Jr. , actor
1937 - Allan Carr , producer, writer (d. 1999 )
1943 - Cilla Black , singer
1945 - Bruce Cockburn 1947 - Branko Oblak , Slovenian football player
1955 - Eric Bischoff , WWE performer
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux , musician ("Siouxsie and the Banshees ")
1958 - Neil Finn , New Zealand singer and songwriter
1958 - Linnea Quigley , 'B' Movie actress
1958 - Wayne Williams , Atlanta, Georgia , child murderer
1961 - Peri Gilpin , actress
1968 - Jeff Bagwell , baseball star
1968 - Frank Thomas , baseball star
1970 - Joseph Fiennes , actor
1971 - Paul Bettany , actor
1971 - Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes , singer (d. 2002 )
1974 - Danny Wuerffel , American football quarterback , Heisman Trophy winner
1975 - Jamie Oliver , British celebrity chef and TV personality (The Naked Chef )
Deaths
866 - Ordoño I , king of Asturias
927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria
1541 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury , daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (executed) (b. 1374 )
1564 - John Calvin , religious reformer (b. 1509 )
1610 - Ravaillac , assassin who killed Henry IV of France (b. 1578 )
1661 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll , Scottish Covenanter , was beheaded
1707 - Marquise de Montespan , mistress of the French King Louis XIV (b. 1641 )
1797 - François-Noël Babeuf , French revolutionary and early socialist (b. 1760 )
1831 - Jedediah Smith , American explorer (b. 1799 )
1840 - Nicolò Paganini , Italian violinist, composer (b. 1782 )
1910 - Robert Koch , German bacteriologist (b. 1843 )
1926 - Srečko Kosovel , Slovenian poet
1960 - James Montgomery Flagg , illustrator (b. 1877 )
1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru , Indian politician (b. 1889 )
1991 - Leopold Nowak , musicologist (b. 1904 )
1993 - Werner Stocker , actor
2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch , former Hong Kong Governor (b. 1917 )
2000 - Maurice Richard , ice hockey player (b. 1921 )
2003 - Luciano Berio , Italian composer (b. 1925 )
External links
May 26 - May 28 - April 27 - June 27 - listing of all days
