May 27

Events

Pre-1600

* 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
* 1199 – John is crowned King of England.
*1257 – Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.

1601–1900

* 1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
* 1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
* 1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia.
* 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
* 1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
* 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.
* 1874 – The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
*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 St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage.

1901–present

* 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
* 1915 – HMS ''Princess Irene'' explodes and sinks off Sheerness, Kent, with the loss of 352 lives.
* 1917 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 ''Code of Canon Law'', the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
* 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 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.
* 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 is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing almost 2,100 men.
* 1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
* 1950 – The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.
* 1958 – First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
* 1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
* 1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
* 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 is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
*1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
* 1977 – A plane crash at José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, kills 67.
* 1971 – Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
* 1975 – Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in 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.
* 1984 – The Danube–Black Sea Canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
* 1988 – Somaliland War of Independence: Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then second and third largest cities of Somalia.
* 1996 – First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
* 1997 – The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
* 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.
* 2001 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
*2006 – The 6.4 Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (''Damaging''), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
* 2016 – Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet ''Hibakusha''.
* 2017 – Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
* 2018 – Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.

Births

Pre-1600

* 742 – Emperor Dezong of Tang (d. 805)
* 1332 – Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian and theologian (d. 1406)
* 1378 – Zhu Quan, Chinese military commander, historian and playwright (d. 1448)
* 1519 – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and theorist (d. 1594)
* 1537 – Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (d. 1604)
* 1576 – Caspar Schoppe, German author and scholar (d. 1649)
* 1584 – Michael Altenburg, German theologian and composer (d. 1640)

1601–1900

*1601 – Antoine Daniel, French-Canadian missionary and saint (d. 1648)
* 1626 – William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
* 1651 – Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)
* 1652 – Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine of Germany (d. 1722)
* 1738 – Nathaniel Gorham, American merchant and politician, 14th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1796)
* 1756 – Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1825)
* 1774 – Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy (d. 1857)
* 1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1877)
* 1814 – John Rudolph Niernsee, Viennese-born American architect (d.1885)
*1815 – Henry Parkes, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1896)
* 1818 – Amelia Bloomer, American journalist and activist (d. 1894)
* 1819 – Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (d. 1910)
*1827 – Samuel F. Miller, American lawyer and politician (d. 1892)
* 1832 – Zenas Ferry Moody, American surveyor and politician, 7th Governor of Oregon (d. 1917)
* 1836 – Jay Gould, American businessman and financier (d. 1892)
* 1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, American police officer (d. 1876)
* 1852 – Billy Barnes, English cricketer (d. 1899)
* 1857 – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (d. 1928)
* 1860 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese politician, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
* 1863 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921)
* 1867 – Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright (d. 1931)
* 1868 – Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian poet and author (d. 1924)
* 1871 – Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator (d. 1958)
* 1875 – Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (d. 1942)
* 1876 – Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author (d. 1945)
* 1876 – William Stanier, English engineer (d. 1965)
* 1878 – Anna Cervin, Swedish artist (d. 1972)
* 1879 – Karl Bühler, German-American linguist and psychologist (d. 1963)
* 1879 – Hans Lammers, German judge and politician (d. 1962)
*1883 – Jessie Arms Botke, American painter (d. 1971)
* 1884 – Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer (d. 1968)
* 1887 – Frank Woolley, English cricketer (d. 1978)
* 1888 – Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
* 1891 – Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer (d. 1965)
* 1891 – Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author (d. 1958)
* 1894 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (d. 1961)
* 1894 – Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (d. 1961)
* 1895 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Canadian educator and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1995)
* 1897 – John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
* 1897 – Dink Templeton, American rugby player and coach (d. 1962)
* 1898 – David Crosthwait, American engineer, inventor and writer (d. 1976)
* 1899 – Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player (d. 1993)
* 1900 – Lotte Toberentz, German overseer of the Nazi Uckermark concentration camp (d. 1964)
* 1900 – Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet and translator (d. 1933)

1901–present

* 1906 – Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (d. 1993)
* 1906 – Harry Hibbs, English footballer (d. 1984)
* 1906 – Antonio Rosario Mennonna, Italian bishop (d. 2009)
* 1907 – Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (d. 1988)
* 1907 – Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author (d. 1964)
* 1909 – Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist (d. 2011)
* 1911 – Hubert Humphrey, American journalist and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (d. 1978)
* 1911 – Teddy Kollek, Hungarian-Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (d. 2007)
* 1911 – Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
* 1912 – John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1982)
* 1912 – Sam Snead, American golfer and sportscaster (d. 2002)
* 1912 – Terry Moore, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1995)
* 1915 – Ester Soré, Chilean singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
* 1915 – Herman Wouk, American novelist (d. 2019)
* 1917 – Harry Webster, English engineer (d. 2007)
* 1918 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese commander and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2019)
* 1921 – Bob Godfrey

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