May 27

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on May 27. From 1900 until now. May 27 is under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include Henry Kissinger (1923), Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (2006) and Lisa Lopes (1971). Several movies were released around May 27 over the years, such as The Legend of Bhagat Singh in 2002 directed by Rajkumar Santoshi and Miracle on 34th Street in 1947 directed by George Seaton.
But much more happened on May 27 over the years: find out below

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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 French police arrest four people in connection with last Friday's bombing in Lyon's historic city center that injured 13 people. Anti-terrorist prosecutors are leading the investigation. District mayor Denis Broliquier said the bomb was a relatively weak explosive that was too small to kill. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. (BBC)
2018 Politics of Japan: Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone celebrates his 100th birthday. (Reuters)
2017 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): At least 18 people are killed and 6 others injured in a car bomb explosion in Khost, eastern Afghanistan. (The Independent)
2016 Iraqi civil war, Operation Breaking Terrorism: The United States reports 70 militants were killed, including ISIL commander Maher al-Bilawi, in a Fallujah airstrike on Wednesday. (UPI)
2015 Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant: Islamic State militants have carried out multiple suicide bombings targeting the Iraqi Army in Anbar Province killing at least 17 people. (AP)
2014 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine:: At least thirty pro-Russian separatists have died in fighting over control of Donetsk International Airport; the Ukrainian government claims to have total control of the airport following the clashes with the separatists. (BBC)The newly elected President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko vows to continue Kiev's anti-terrorist operation against pro-Russian militants in the east. (BBC)
2013 Seven Philippine police officers are killed by a New People's Army land mine in the municipality of Allacapan, Cagayan. (Philstar)
2012 War in Afghanistan: A NATO air strike kills a family of eight, including six children. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (The News)
2011 2011 Libyan civil war
2010 The death toll in the recent violence in Jamaica jumps to 73, and 44 in west Kingston alone. (Al Jazeera) (Montreal Gazette)
2009 (to May 31) Heritage Numismatic Auctions conducts Central States Signature Auction.
2008 A Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas in the USA reports prices of single-family homes dropped a record 14.4 percent in March from a year earlier. The US Commerce Department reports sales of new homes in April were down 42 percent from a year ago, the largest year-over-year drop in nearly 27 years.
2007 Gay rights in Russia: Russian gay rights leaders and foreign dignitaries are beaten and arrested in Moscow. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov had denied permission for a gay pride parade. (The Guardian)
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.
2005 Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.
2004 NASA announces the first Spitzer Space Telescope find: a planet that appears to be less than a million years old. (NYT)
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 The Oldham riots take place in Oldham, UK, after a string of events create tension between White and Asian communities. 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 (Operation Dynamo)
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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