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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