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This day in history: 27 May

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425 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 27 May.
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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.

Holidays and observances

Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)

Children's Day (Nigeria)

Christian feast day: Augustine of Canterbury

Christian feast day: Blessed Lojze Grozde

Christian feast day: Bruno of Würzburg

Christian feast day: Eutropius of Orange

Christian feast day: Hildebert

Christian feast day: Julius the Veteran

Christian feast day: May 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Mother's Day (Bolivia)

Navy Day (Japan)

Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin)

Events

2018Maryland 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.

2017Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

2016Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.

2014The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada are formed.

2006The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.

2001Members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist group, seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.

1999Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station.

1998Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

1997The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.

1996First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechen rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.

1988Somaliland War of Independence: The Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then the second- and third-largest cities of Somalia.

1984The Danube–Black Sea Canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.

1980The 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.

1977A plane crash at José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, kills 67.

1975Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33, the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.

1971Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.

1971The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.

1967Australians 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.

1967The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.

1965Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.

1962The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.

1960In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.

1958First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.

1950The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.

1942World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.

1941World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing almost 2,100 men.

1941World War II: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".

1940World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.

1937In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.

1935New 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).

1933New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.

1930The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.

1927The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.

1919The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.

1917Pope 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.

1915HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks off Sheerness, Kent, with the loss of 352 lives.

1905Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.

1896The 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.

1883Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.

1874The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.

Born on this day

2003Franco Colapinto, Argentine racing driver

2002Gabri Veiga, Spanish footballer

2002Jérémy Doku, Belgian footballer

2000Abner Vinícius, Brazilian footballer

1999Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress and model

1999Matheus Cunha, Brazilian footballer

1998Josep Martínez, Spanish footballer

1997Anna Bondar, Hungarian tennis player

1997Daniel Jones, American football player

1997Konrad Laimer, Austrian footballer

1996Kim Jae-hwan, South Korean singer

1995Yoán Moncada, Cuban baseball player

1994Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska, Polish–Thai politician, political scientist, and humanitarian

1994Aymeric Laporte, French-Spanish footballer

1994João Cancelo, Portuguese footballer

1994Maximilian Arnold, German footballer

1992Aaron Brown, Canadian sprinter

1992Jeison Murillo, Colombian footballer

1992Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, Canadian canoer

1991Armando Sadiku, Albanian footballer

1991Eneli Vals, Estonian footballer

1991Ksenia Pervak, Russian tennis player

1991Mário Rui, Portuguese footballer

1991Sebastien Dewaest, Belgian footballer

1991Tim Lafai, Samoan rugby league player

1990Chris Colfer, American actor and singer

1990Jonas Hector, German footballer

1990Marcus Kruger, Swedish ice hockey player

1990Yenew Alamirew, Ethiopian runner

1989Igor Morozov, Estonian footballer

1989Peakboy, South Korean rapper, record producer, and singer-songwriter

1988Celso Borges, Costa Rican footballer

1988Garrett Richards, American baseball pitcher

1988Irina Davydova, Russian hurdler

1988Tyler Sash, American football player (died 2015)

1988Vontae Davis, American football player (died 2024)

1987Bella Heathcote, Australian actress

1987Bora Paçun, Turkish basketball player

1987Gervinho, Ivorian footballer

1987Martina Sáblíková, Czech speed skater and cyclist

Died on this day

2025Freddie Aguilar, Filipino musician and singer-songwriter (born 1953)

2024Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1952)

2024Elizabeth MacRae, American actress (born 1936)

2021Poul Schlüter, former Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1929)

2020Larry Kramer, American playwright, public health advocate and LGBT rights activist (born 1935)

2018Gardner Dozois, American science fiction author and editor (born 1947)

2017Gregg Allman, American musician, singer and songwriter (born 1947)

2015Andy King, English footballer and manager (born 1956)

2015Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (born 1929)

2015Michael Martin, American philosopher and academic (born 1932)

2015Nils Christie, Norwegian sociologist, criminologist, and author (born 1928)

2014Helma Sanders-Brahms, German director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1940)

2014Massimo Vignelli, Italian-American graphic designer (born 1931)

2014Robert Genn, Canadian painter and author (born 1936)

2014Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1929)

2013Abdoulaye Sékou Sow, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali (born 1931)

2013Bill Pertwee, English actor (born 1926)

2013Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (born 1917)

2012Anahit Perikhanian, Russian-born Armenian Iranologist (born 1928)

2012David Rimoin, Canadian-American geneticist and academic (born 1936)

2012Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician and academic (born 1927)

2012Simeon Daniel, Nevisian educator and politician, 1st Premier of Nevis (born 1934)

2011Gil Scott-Heron, American singer-songwriter and poet (born 1949)

2011Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (born 1950)

2011Margo Dydek, Polish-American basketball player (born 1974)

2010Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator and director (born 1929)

2009Abram Hoffer, Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist (born 1917)

2009Carol Anne O'Marie, American nun and author (born 1933)

2009Clive Granger, Welsh-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1934)

2009Gérard Jean-Juste, Haitian-American priest and theologian (born 1946)

Quote of the day

“Confine yourself to the present.”

Marcus Aurelius

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