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 147^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 218 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 14, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 485,640 hours 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 ‘hectatetracontaheptagon’ 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 266 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 4,540 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

May 27 Historical Events

• 1798 –
  The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
• 1860 –
  Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
• 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 Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 USD).
• 1907 –
  Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
• 1919 –
  The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
• 1937 –
  In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
• 1942 –
  World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague.
• 1967 –
  The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
• 2005 –
  Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.

Who were born on May 27?

• 1738 –
  Nathaniel Gorham, 8th President of the United States in Congress Assembled (d. 1796)
• 1837 –
  Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
• 1879 –
  Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962)
• 1912 –
  Terry Moore, American baseball player (d. 1995)
• 1930 –
  John Barth, American novelist
• 1944 –
  Christopher Dodd, American politician, senior Senator from Connecticut
• 1957 –
  Duncan Goodhew, English Olympic swimmer, 1980 gold medalist
• 1965 –
  Todd Bridges, American actor
• 1978 –
  Adin Brown, American footballer
• 1986 –
  Timo Descamps, Flemish actor and singer

Who died on May 27?

• 1444 –
  John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
• 1525 –
  Thomas Müntzer, German rebel leader (b. c. 1488)
• 1941 –
  Ernst Lindemann, German captain, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (b. 1894)
• 1967 –
  Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
• 1989 –
  Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
• 1991 –
  Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
• 1993 –
  Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
• 2007 –
  Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
• 2009 –
  Gérard Jean-Juste, Roman Catholic priest and Haitian political activist (b. 1946)
• 2011 –
  Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)