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What Happened on May 27th This Day in History

Year	Name
2018	Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.
2017	Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
2016	Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
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.
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.
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	The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
1996	First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1988	Somaliland War of Independence: Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then second and third largest cities of Somalia.[8]
1984	The Danube–Black Sea Canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
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.
1977	A plane crash at José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, kills 67.
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.
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.
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.
1965	Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1962	The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
1960	In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1958	First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
1950	The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.[5]
1942	World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
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.
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.
1937	In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
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).
1933	New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
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.
1927	The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1919	The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
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.
1915	HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks off Sheerness, Kent, with the loss of 352 lives.
1905	Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1896	The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage.
1883	Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1874	The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
1863	American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
1860	Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
1813	War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1799	War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
1798	The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia.
1703	Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
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.
1257	Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.
1199	John is crowned King of England.
1153	Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1120	Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1096	Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens.[1] At least 600 Jews are killed.

Famous People Born on May 27

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Year	Name
1814	John Rudolph Niernsee, Viennese-born American architect (d.1885)
1954	Pauline Hanson, Australian businesswoman, activist, and politician
1875	Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (d. 1942)
1907	Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author (d. 1964)
1992	Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, Canadian canoer
1964	Adam Carolla, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1958	Neil Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician
1971	Paul Bettany, English actor
1984	Blake Ahearn, American basketball player
1987	Martina Sablikova, Czech speed skater and cyclist

Famous People Deaths On May 27

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Date	Name
2015	Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1929)
2008	Franz Künstler, Hungarian soldier (b. 1900)
1980	Gün Sazak, Turkish agronomist and politician (b. 1932)
1992	Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
2018	Gardner Dozois, American science fiction author and editor (b. 1947)
1942	Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (b. 1878)
1989	Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1907)
1637	John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield, English politician (b. c. 1566)
1541	Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473)
1675	Gaspard Dughet, Italian-French painter (b. 1613)