May 27: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

May 27th marks the 147th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 148th in case of leap years). There are 218 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include Henry Kissinger (1923), Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (2006) and Lisa Lopes (1971).
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Holidays

Eutropius
Mother's Day in Bolivia (Dfa de la Madre)
Bruno, Bishop of Wnrzburg
Hildebert
Pope John I
Saint Julius the Veteran
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Venerable Bede
Lag Ba'omer in Judaism (2005)
Children's Day in Nigeria
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Events

2019 Four French police officers were arrested in connection to the bombing that occurred in Lyon's historic center last Friday, resulting in 13 injuries. The investigation is being led by anti-terrorist prosecutors. Denis Broliquier, the district mayor, said that the bomb was too weak to be effective in killing. The attack has not been claimed by anyone.
2018 Politics in Japan: Yasuhiro Nagasone, former Japanese Prime Minister, celebrates his 100th Birthday.
2017 War in Afghanistan (2001-present: At least 18 people were killed and six others injured by a car bomb blast in Khost, eastern Afghanistan.
2016 Operation Breaking Terrorism, Iraqi Civil War: According to the United States, 70 militants were killed in an airstrike in Fallujah on Wednesday.
2015 Islamic State in Iraq & the Levant: Islamic State militants carried out numerous suicide bombings against the Iraqi Army, Anbar Province, killing at least 17 people.
2014 Pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine 2014: At least 30 pro-Russian separatists died fighting for control of Donetsk International Airport. The Ukrainian government claims that it has taken full control of the airport after clashes with separatists. (BBC). The newly elected president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko promises to continue Kiev's antiterrorist operations against pro-Russian militants from the east.
2013 A New People's Army landmine in Allacapan, Cagayan kills seven Philippine police officers.
2012 War in Afghanistan: An NATO air strike kills eight families, including six children.
2011 Libyan civil war 2011
2010 The death toll from the violence in Jamaica has risen to 73 and 44 respectively in Kingston and west Kingston.
2009 Heritage Numismatic Auctions holds a Central States Signature Auction from May 31 to June 1.
2008 The prices of single-family homes fell by 14.4% in March according to a composite index from Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller of 20 US metropolitan areas. This is a record, compared to a year ago. According to the US Commerce Department, April's sales of new homes were 42 percent lower than a year earlier. This is the largest annual drop in almost 27 years.
2007 Russian gay rights leaders, and foreign dignitaries, are arrested and beaten in Moscow. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov had refused permission to hold a gay pride parade.
2006 At 5:53.58 AM local time (22.53.58 UTC May 26), the Java earthquake of May 2006 causes Bantul and Yogyakarta to be stricken, resulting in over 6,600 deaths.
2005 Australian Schapelle Corby was sentenced to 20 Years in Kerobokan Prison after being convicted of drug smuggling.
2004 NASA announces its first Spitzer Space Telescope discovery: A planet less than one million years old.
2003 Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon states that the ampquotoccupationampquot of Palestinian territories is ampquota terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestiniansampquot and ampquotcan't continue endlessly.ampquot Sharon's phraseology prompts shock from many in Israel, leading to a clarification that by ampquotoccupation,ampquot Sharon meant control of millions of Palestinian lives rather than actual physical occupation of land.
2001 After a series of events that created tension between Asian and White communities, the Oldham riots occur in Oldham, UK. This lasted until May 28, 2001.
1999 The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milosevic and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
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.
1997 Arie Luyendyk wins his 2nd Indianapolis 500
1995 The 7.0 M  Neftegorsk earthquake shakes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 1,989 people dead and 750 injured.
1994 Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show
1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
1990 74th Indianapolis 500 runs; Arie Luyendyk wins with an average speed of 185.981 mph.
1988 US Senate ratifies a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles.
1987 Jim and Tammy Bakker appear on Nightline after PTL scandal
1986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking
1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
1984 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic.
1983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of US Congress.
1982 Do Black Patent Leather Shoes... opens at Alvin NYC for 5 performances
1981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
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.
1979 Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic.
1977 New York City fines George Willig 1 cent for each of 110 stories of the World Trade Center he climbed.
1975 Paul McCartney releases Venus & Mars
1973 Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6.
1972 Applause closes at Palace Theater NYC after 900 performances
1971 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship.
1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I.
1969 Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV
1968 NL awards Montreal and SD major league franchises
1967 Sherry! closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 65 performances
1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes.
1965 Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan, Italy.
1964 From Russia With Love premieres in US
1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected first prime minister of Kenya.
1962 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open.
1961 President Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon
1960 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Baltimore Oriole Clint Courtney)
1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed).
1957 Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
1956 French raid in Algiers
1955 Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1953 Dutch social democratic / Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
1952 European Defense Community forms.
1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens
1950 Arms & the Girl closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 134 performances
1949 Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane
1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid.
1944 Jean-Paul Sartres Huis Clos, premieres in Paris
1943 US forbids racial discrimination in war industry.
1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
1940 British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk
1937 Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated
1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for New York on maiden voyage
1935 US Supreme Court declares President Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Act unconstitutional.
1933 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
1931 Piccard and Knipfer make first flight into stratosphere, by balloon; first use of pressurized cabin in a balloon.
1930 The Chrysler Building opens to the public in New York. At 1,046 feet tall, it is the tallest man-made structure in the world.
1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1923 The Ku Klux Klan in the United States defies a law requiring publication of its members.
1921 Afghanistan gains sovereignty
1920 Tatar ASSR is established in Russian SFSR.
1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
1918 Battle of Aisne.
1917 Race riot in East Saint Louis Illinois, one black killed.
1916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in the Bronx.
1905 30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8.
1903 37th Belmont Stakes: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75.
1902 27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8.
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