May 27st Events |
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| May 27th, 2006 (May 27 2006) | Event | 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. | |
| May 27th, 1999 (May 27 1999) | Event | The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milosevic and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo. | |
| May 27th, 1998 (May 27 1998) | Event | 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. | |
| May 27th, 1997 (May 27 1997) | Event | The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office. | Bill Clinton Quotes |
| May 27th, 1997 (May 27 1997) | Event | A F5 tornado strikes Jarrell, Texas killing 27 people. | |
| May 27th, 1996 (May 27 1996) | Event | First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire. | Boris Yeltsin Quotes |
| May 27th, 1995 (May 27 1995) | Event | In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition. | Christopher Reeve Quotes |
| May 27th, 1980 (May 27 1980) | Event | 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. | An Wang Quotes |
| May 27th, 1975 (May 27 1975) | Event | The Dibble s Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 32 (the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom). | |
| May 27th, 1971 (May 27 1971) | Event | The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal. | |
| May 27th, 1968 (May 27 1968) | Event | The meeting of the Union Nationale des Etudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety. | |
| May 27th, 1967 (May 27 1967) | Event | 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. | |
| May 27th, 1967 (May 27 1967) | Event | The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is christened by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| May 27th, 1965 (May 27 1965) | Event | Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam. | |
| May 27th, 1960 (May 27 1960) | Event | In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office. | |
| May 27th, 1958 (May 27 1958) | Event | The F-4 Phantom II first flight. | |
| May 27th, 1957 (May 27 1957) | Event | Toronto s CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada s first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n Roll music format. | |
| May 27th, 1942 (May 27 1942) | Event | World War II: In Operation Anthropoid Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague. | Reinhard Heydrich Quotes |
| May 27th, 1941 (May 27 1941) | Event | World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency". | |
| May 27th, 1941 (May 27 1941) | Event | World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men. | |
| May 27th, 1940 (May 27 1940) | Event | World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops. | |
| May 27th, 1939 (May 27 1939) | Event | DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time. | |
| May 27th, 1937 (May 27 1937) | Event | In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California. | |
| May 27th, 1935 (May 27 1935) | Event | 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). | |
| May 27th, 1933 (May 27 1933) | Event | New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission. | |
| May 27th, 1933 (May 27 1933) | Event | The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" | Walt Disney Quotes |
| May 27th, 1933 (May 27 1933) | Event | The Century of Progress World s Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois. | |
| May 27th, 1930 (May 27 1930) | Event | The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public. | |
| May 27th, 1927 (May 27 1927) | Event | The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As. | |
| May 27th, 1919 (May 27 1919) | Event | The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight. | |
| May 27th, 1908 (May 27 1908) | Event | Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. | |
| May 27th, 1907 (May 27 1907) | Event | A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California. | |
| May 27th, 1905 (May 27 1905) | Event | Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins. | |
| May 27th, 1896 (May 27 1896) | Event | 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 damages (1997 USD). | |
| May 27th, 1895 (May 27 1895) | Event | Oscar Wilde is imprisoned for sodomy. | Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| May 27th, 1883 (May 27 1883) | Event | Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia. | |
| May 27th, 1860 (May 27 1860) | Event | Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification. | |
| May 27th, 1849 (May 27 1849) | Event | The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened. | |
| May 27th, 1813 (May 27 1813) | Event | War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George. | |
| May 27th, 1812 (May 27 1812) | Event | South American Wars of Independence: In Bolivia, the Battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fight against the Spanish army. | |
| May 27th, 1798 (May 27 1798) | Event | The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland. | |
| May 27th, 1703 (May 27 1703) | Event | Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg. | |
| May 27th, 1647 (May 27 1647) | Event | Peter Stuyvesant was inaugurated as Director-General of New Netherland. | |
| May 27th, 1328 (May 27 1328) | Event | Philip VI is crowned King of France. | |
| May 27th, 1153 (May 27 1153) | Event | Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland. | |
| May 27th, 1120 (May 27 1120) | Event | Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death. | |
| May 27th, 0927 (May 27 0927) | Event | Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Simeon I of Bulgaria is defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia. | |
