What happened this day in history May 27

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 147th 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.

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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.

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May 27 Historical Events

  • 927
    Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: the Croatian army, led by King Tomislav, defeats the Bulgarian Army.
  • 1153
    Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
  • 1703
    Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
  • 1849
    The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
  • 1860
    Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
  • 1907
    Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
  • 1933
    The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
  • 1967
    Australians 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.
  • 1971
    The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
  • 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?

  • 1897
    John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
  • 1900
    Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
  • 1943
    Bruce Weitz, American actor
  • 1947
    Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
  • 1962
    Ray Borner, Australian basketball player
  • 1970
    Joseph Fiennes, English actor
  • 1974
    Derek Webb, American singer and songwriter (Caedmon’s Call)
  • 1975
    André 3000, American rapper (OutKast)
  • 1981
    Miloy, Angolan footballer
  • 1984
    Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player

Who died on May 27?

  • 1039
    Dirk III, Count of Holland (b. between 981 and 989)
  • 1525
    Thomas Müntzer, German rebel leader (b. c. 1488)
  • 1702
    Dominique Bouhours, French essayist and critic (b. 1628)
  • 1918
    Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (b. 1869)
  • 1945
    Enno Lolling, German SS-Standartenführer died by suicide (b. 1888)
  • 1986
    Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921)
  • 1990
    Robert B. Meyner, 44th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1908)
  • 1993
    Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)
  • 2011
    Gil Scott-Heron, American poet, musician and author (b. 1949)
  • 2011
    Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)

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