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, 29,138,400 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 ‘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

• 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.
• 1905 –
  Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• 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).
• 1940 –
  World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops. Two survive.
• 1942 –
  World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague.
• 1962 –
  The Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire starts.
• 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.
• 2001 –
  Members of Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an upscale island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
• 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?

• 1871 –
  Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
• 1933 –
  Ted Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur (d. 2008)
• 1939 –
  Don Williams, American country singer
• 1955 –
  Richard Schiff, American actor
• 1964 –
  Adam Carolla, American comedian and television personality
• 1969 –
  Jeremy Mayfield, American race car driver
• 1971 –
  Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman
• 1972 –
  Todd Demsey, American golfer
• 1977 –
  Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete
• 1977 –
  Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch footballer

Who died on May 27?

• 927 –
  Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria (b. 864 or 865)
• 1525 –
  Thomas Müntzer, German rebel leader (b. c. 1488)
• 1661 –
  Archibald Campbell, Scottish religious dissident (b. 1607)
• 1947 –
  Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1973 –
  P.Ramlee, Malaysian actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1922)
• 1993 –
  Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
• 2000 –
  Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
• 2006 –
  Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (b. 1944)
• 2008 –
  Franz Künstler, last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (b. 1900)
• 2011 –
  Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950)