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, 1,748,304,000 seconds 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

• 1849 –
  The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
• 1905 –
  Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• 1907 –
  Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
• 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 Century of Progress World’s Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1941 –
  World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an “unlimited national emergency”.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Who were born on May 27?

• 1332 –
  Ibn Khaldun, Arab polymath (d. 1406)
• 1794 –
  Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
• 1837 –
  Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
• 1893 –
  Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentenarian (d. 2005)
• 1900 –
  Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
• 1915 –
  Esther Soré, Chilean musician (d. 1996)
• 1943 –
  Bruce Weitz, American actor
• 1946 –
  Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (d. 2005)
• 1955 –
  Eric Bischoff, American professional wrestling promoter
• 1971 –
  Monika Schnarre, Canadian model and actress

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)
• 1610 –
  François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
• 1702 –
  Dominique Bouhours, French essayist and critic (b. 1628)
• 1967 –
  W. Otto Miessner, American composer and music educator (b. 1880)
• 1986 –
  Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921)
• 2000 –
  Sir Crawford Murray MacLehose, Scottish statesman, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)
• 2007 –
  Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
• 2008 –
  Franz Künstler, last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (b. 1900)
• 2009 –
  Gérard Jean-Juste, Roman Catholic priest and Haitian political activist (b. 1946)