About May 27
May 27, 2025 is the 147th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 218 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 266 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 27
- 1153 –Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
- 1703 –Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
- 1799 –War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town’s location at the junction of seven cross-roads.
- 1812 –Bolivian War of Independence: In Bolivia, the Battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fight against the Spanish army.
- 1860 –Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
- 1883 –Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
- 1919 –The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
- 1930 –The 1046 ft 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.
- 1937 –In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
- 1942 –World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague.
- 1957 –Toronto‘s CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada’s first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n’Roll music format.
- 1958 –The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
- 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.
- 1975 –Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
- 1986 –the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, Dragon Quest is released in Japan.
- 1995 –In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
- 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 Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an upscale island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
- 2005 –The first year of the Tunisian American Day, which became a yearly event
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