What are the important events that happened on May 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

May 27: Facts & Myths About This Day

May 27 is the 148^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 218 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 14, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,612,800 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatetracontaoctagon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 247 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,175 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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May 27 Historical Events

• 1799 –
  War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town’s location at the junction of seven cross-roads.
• 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 1046 ft Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
• 1933 –
  The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
• 1958 –
  The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
• 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.
• 1986 –
  the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, Dragon Quest is released in Japan.
• 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.
• 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.

Who were born on May 27?

• 1820 –
  Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
• 1864 –
  Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (d. 1938)
• 1894 –
  Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961)
• 1912 –
  Terry Moore, American baseball player (d. 1995)
• 1961 –
  Peri Gilpin, American actress
• 1965 –
  Todd Bridges, American actor
• 1972 –
  Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer
• 1972 –
  Todd Demsey, American golfer
• 1977 –
  Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch footballer
• 1979 –
  Stuart Manning, British actor

Who died on May 27?

• 366 –
  Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
• 1444 –
  John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
• 1610 –
  François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
• 1690 –
  Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b. 1626)
• 1840 –
  Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1973 –
  P.Ramlee, Malaysian actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1922)
• 2000 –
  Sir Crawford Murray MacLehose, Scottish statesman, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)
• 2001 –
  Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929)
• 2008 –
  Franz Künstler, last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (b. 1900)
• 2009 –
  Thomas Franck, American lawyer (b. 1931)

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