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

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

927 - Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Simeon I of Bulgaria is defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia.
1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1153 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant was inaugurated as Director-General of New Netherland.
1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1798 - The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
1812 - South American Wars 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.
1883 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1895 - Oscar Wilde is imprisoned for sodomy.
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 damages (1997 USD).
1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1907 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
1908 - Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
1919 - The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1927 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
1930 - The 1,046-foot (319-meter) 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 The 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.
1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
1940 - World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops.
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 first flight.
1960 - In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
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 (CV-67) is christened 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 - 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).
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.
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 U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
1997 - A F5 tornado strikes 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 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.
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.

Births

1332 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (d. 1406)
1519 - Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594)
1576 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649)
1601 - Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1648)
1623 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
1626 - William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
1651 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)
1652 - Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1722)
1738 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)
1756 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria (d. 1825)
1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
1818 - Amelia Bloomer, American suffragette (d. 1894)
1819 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer (d. 1910)
1820 - Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
1827 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892)
1836 - Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
1837 - Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
1837 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
1860 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
1864 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (d. 1938)
1867 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
1871 - Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
1876 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (d. 1945)
1878 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
1879 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962)
1884 - Max Brod, Austrian author (d. 1968)
1888 - Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
1891 - Claude Champagne, French-Canadian composer (d. 1965)
1893 - Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentarian (d. 2005)
1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
1894 - Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961)
1897 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1900 - Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
1904 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
1907 - Rachel Carson, American biologist and science writer (d. 1964)
1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey, American politician (d. 1978)
1911 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician (d. 2007)
1911 - Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
1912 - John Cheever, American author (d. 1982)
1912 - Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)
1912 - Terry Moore, American baseball player (d. 1995)
1913 - Wols, German painter (d. 1951)
1915 - Herman Wouk, American writer
1918 - Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician
1921 - Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (d. 1960)
1922 - Christopher Lee, English actor
1923 - Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1923 - Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
1925 - Tony Hillerman, American writer
1930 - John Barth, American novelist
1930 - William S. Sessions, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1933 - Ted Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur
1934 - Harlan Ellison, American author
1935 - Lee Meriwether, Miss America and actress
1935 - Ramsey Lewis, American pianist
1935 - Mal Evans, British Beatles assistant (d. 1976)
1936 - Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
1936 - Marcel Masse, Canadian politician
1937 - Allan Carr, American film producer and writer (d. 1999)
1939 - Socratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman
1942 - Lee Baca, American law enforcement official
1943 - Cilla Black, English singer and presenter
1943 - Bruce Weitz, American actor
1944 - Christopher Dodd, American politician
1944 - Alain Souchon, French singer and songwriter
1945 - Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
1946 - Lewis Collins, English actor
1946 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish musician (d. 2005)
1947 - Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
1948 - Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
1951 - Ana Belén, Spanish singer and actress
1954 - Pauline Hanson, Australian politician
1954 - Jackie Slater, American football player
1955 - Richard Schiff, American actor
1955 - Eric Bischoff, American professional wrestling promoter
1956 - Cynthia McFadden, American television anchor
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
1957 - Duncan Goodhew, English Olympic Games gold medalist swimmer
1958 - Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter (Split Enz, Crowded House)
1958 - Linnea Quigley, American actress
1961 - Peri Gilpin, American actress
1962 - Ray Borner, Australian basketball player
1962 - Steven Brill, American film writer and director
1964 - Adam Carolla, American comedian and television personality
1965 - Todd Bridges, American actor
1967 - Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
1968 - Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
1968 - Frank Thomas, American baseball player
1969 - Jeremy Mayfield, American race car driver
1969 - Dondre Whitfield, American actor
1970 - Tim Farron, British politician
1970 - Joseph Fiennes, English actor
1970 - Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
1970 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
1971 - Paul Bettany, English actor
1971 - Wayne Carey, Australian rules footballer
1971 - Kaur Kender, Estonian author
1971 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, American singer (TLC) (d. 2002)
1971 - Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman
1971 - Monika Schnarre, Canadian model
1972 - Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer
1972 - Todd Demsey, American golfer
1973 - Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian
1974 - Derek Webb, American singer and songwriter (Caedmon's Call)
1974 - Danny Wuerffel, American football player
1975 - André 3000, American musician (OutKast)
1975 - Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer
1975 - Jadakiss, American rapper (The Lox)
1975 - Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality
1976 - RJD2, American hip-hop producer
1976 - Anita Blonde, Hungarian porn star
1977 - Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete
1977 - Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
1977 - Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch footballer
1978 - Adin Brown, American soccer player
1979 - Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
1981 - Özgür Çevik, Turkish singer and actor
1981 - Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
1981 - Miloy, Angolan footballer
1981 - Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot distance runner
1983 - Bobby Convey, American soccer player
1984 - Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player
1984 - Blake Ahearn, NBA basketball player
1985 - Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
1990 - Ekaterina Zaikina, Russian figure-skater