Notable Historical Events on May 27th
May 27th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
927 |
Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Simeon I of Bulgaria is defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia. |
1120 |
Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death. |
1281 |
Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge |
1328 |
French King Philip VI Valois crowned |
1529 |
30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake |
1660 |
Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire |
1679 |
Habeaus Corpus Act (strengthening person's right to challenge unlawful arrest & imprisonment) passes in England |
1689 |
Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland |
1692 |
Court of Oyer and Terminer established by Governor of Massachusetts to hear accussations of witchcraft |
1703 |
St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great |
1738 |
Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov |
1796 |
James S McLean patents his piano |
1798 |
The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland. |
1813 |
Americans capture Ft George, Canada |
1849 |
The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened. |
1850 |
Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois, destroyed by tornado |
1854 |
Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed |
1856 |
Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning |
1862 |
Battle of Hanover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station) |
1863 |
CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die |
1863 |
Siege of Port Hudson LA |
1864 |
Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia |
1878 |
6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75 |
1878 |
Australians Cricket 41 & 12-1 defeat MCC 33 & 19 |
1881 |
9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40.5 |
1882 |
10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44.5 |
1883 |
Tsar Alexander III crowned in Moscow |
1893 |
Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland |
1895 |
British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector |
1896 |
Bay District Race Track closes |
1896 |
Tornado hit St Louis, killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless |
1898 |
Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the Wells" premieres in London |
1900 |
Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa |
1902 |
27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8 |
1903 |
37th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75 |
1903 |
Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam |
1904 |
NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants) |
1905 |
30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8 |
1905 |
Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima |
1906 |
1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen |
1907 |
Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco |
1908 |
Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. |
1916 |
Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx |
1916 |
President Wilson addresses the League to Enforce Peace, founded in 1915, and gives public support to the idea of a league of nations |
1917 |
Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed |
1918 |
Battle of Aisne |
1919 |
1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days |
1920 |
Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR |
1921 |
After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty |
1927 |
Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war |
1927 |
Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president |
1929 |
2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England |
1930 |
Richard Drew invents masking tape |
1930 |
The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public. |
1931 |
1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va |
1931 |
Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon |
1933 |
Austrian communist party banned |
1933 |
Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago |
1933 |
Federal Securities Act signed |
1933 |
Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11 |
1933 |
Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released |
1935 |
Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional |
1936 |
RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage |
1937 |
Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936) |
1937 |
Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated |
1938 |
Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of English season, earliest to do so |
1940 |
British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII |
1940 |
World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops. |
1941 |
Allied troops begin evacuating Crete |
1941 |
FDR declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor |
1941 |
German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force |
1942 |
Dorie Miller awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor |
1942 |
Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered |
1942 |
Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim |
1942 |
Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi "Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" is shot & mortally wounded in Prague in in Operation Anthropoid |
1943 |
French resistance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris |
1943 |
US forbids racial discrimination in war industry |
1944 |
Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks) |
1944 |
Japanese advance in Hangkhou China |
1944 |
Jean-Paul Sartres' "Huis Clos" premieres in Paris |
1948 |
Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid |
1948 |
Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians |
1949 |
Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day" |
1949 |
Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane |
1949 |
Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin |
1950 |
"Arms & the Girl" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 134 performances |
1950 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens |
1951 |
Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing |
1951 |
Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens |
1952 |
European Defense Community forms |
1953 |
Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections |
1955 |
Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0 |
1955 |
Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV |
1956 |
French raid in Algiers |
1956 |
US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
1957 |
Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format. |
1958 |
Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS |
1958 |
Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
1958 |
Maiden flight of the F-4 Phantom II |
1960 |
1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney) |
1960 |
Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt |
1960 |
Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey |
1961 |
1st black light is sold |
1961 |
Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup II in Florence |
1961 |
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' ½" |
1962 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
1963 |
Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st Prime Minister of Kenya |
1964 |
"From Russia With Love" premieres in US |
1964 |
Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna |
1965 |
Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan |
1966 |
55th German F-104 Starfighter crashes |
1966 |
6 French fighters crash above Spain |
1967 |
"Sherry!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 65 performances |
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. |
1968 |
6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3 |
1968 |
NL awards Montreal & SD major league franchises |
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. |
1968 |
George Halas retires from coaching, finishing with 318 regular-season wins and 6 NFL titles |
1969 |
Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV |
1969 |
Walt Disney World construction begins |
1970 |
British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I |
1970 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971 |
23rd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 13-11 |
1971 |
UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship |
1972 |
"Applause" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 900 performances |
1972 |
"Jimmy Castor Bunch's Troglodyte" (Cave Man) hits #6 |
1972 |
Indianapolis 500: Mark Donohue wins in 3:04:23.851 (262.262 km/h) |
1973 |
Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6 |
1974 |
Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning |
1975 |
Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars" |
1975 |
Stanley Cup: Phila Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2 |
1975 |
Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 |
1976 |
"Something's Afoot" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 61 performances |
1977 |
2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582 |
1977 |
New York City fines George Willig 1 cent for each of 110 stories he climbed |
1979 |
Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
1979 |
Pope John Paul II ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop |
1979 |
Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins in 3:08:47.950 (255.723 km/h) |
1980 |
South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed |
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. |
1981 |
John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol |
1981 |
Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but umpire says no |
1981 |
Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris |
1981 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1982 |
New owners purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, & get approval to move them to NJ Meadowlands (Devils) |
1982 |
"Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin NYC for 5 perfs |
1982 |
John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies & gets approval to move to NJ |
1983 |
Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress |
1984 |
Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest" premieres in NYC |
1984 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
1984 |
Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day |
1984 |
Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins in 3:03:21.638 (263.308 km/h) |
1985 |
Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
1985 |
Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan |
1986 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1986 |
Norway Showcase groundbreaking |
1986 |
President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled |
1987 |
Jim & Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal |
1987 |
Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna |
1987 |
Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young & Sutton) |
1988 |
Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles |
1990 |
74th Indianapolis 500 runs |
1990 |
Caesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen pres of Colombia |
1990 |
Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game |
1990 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
1990 |
Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow |
1991 |
Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die |
1993 |
Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 HRs |
1993 |
Mafia bombs Uffizi Museum in Florence, killing 6 |
1994 |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile |
1994 |
Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show |
1994 |
Flintstones live action movie opens |
1994 |
Larry King ended his radio show |
1995 |
In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition. |
1997 |
1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole |
1997 |
Indianapolis 500: Arie Luyendyk wins his 2nd Indy 500 |
1997 |
Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract |
1997 |
Major league revenue sharing begins, NY Yanks pay out most $28M |
1997 |
Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexual assault |
1997 |
Russian Pres Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO |
1998 |
Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot. |
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 |
Indianapolis 500: Hélio Castroneves wins in 3:31:54.180 (227.841 km/h) |
2006 |
The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people. |
2007 |
Indianapolis 500: Dario Franchitti wins in 2:44:03.5608 (244.257 km/h) |
2009 |
South Africa enters the global recession; the first recession for South Africa in 17 years |
2012 |
A NATO airstrike kills a family of eight, including six children, in Afghanistan |
2012 |
Indianapolis 500: Dario Franchitti wins in 2:58.51.2532 (269.934 km/h) |
2013 |
75 people are killed and 200 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq |
2013 |
The largest flag ever made at 5 tons with 44 miles of thread is unveiled in Romania |
2016 |
President Obama Visits Hiroshima |
2016 |
Rapper Troy Ave Is Arrested After Fatal Shooting at TI Concert |
2016 |
2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee crowns co-champions...again |
2016 |
Google defeats Oracle in Java code copyright case |
2017 |
Ariana Grande to hold concert in Manchester for bombing victims |
2017 |
US plans first test of ICBM intercept, with NKorea on mind |
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