May 27 in History

Historical Events on May 27

927

Death of Simeon I the Great, the first Bulgarian to be recognized as Emperor.
1120

Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1153

Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1199

John is crowned King of England.
1644

Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
1703

Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1798

The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
1799

War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
1813

War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1860

Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
1863

American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
1874

The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
1883

Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1896

The F4-strength 1896 St. Louis-East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 US dollars).
1905

Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1907

Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco.
1917

Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
1919

The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
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 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1933

New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933

The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1935

New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1937

In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1940

World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
1941

World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941

World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
1942

World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
1960

In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1962

The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
1965

Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
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.
1967

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1971

The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1971

Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
1975

Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 - the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
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.
1996

First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1997

The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
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.
2001

Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
2006

The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
2016

Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.

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