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, 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.

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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

  • 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)

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