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
- 1120 –Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
- 1703 –Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
- 1798 –The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
- 1813 –War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
- 1849 –The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
- 1933 –New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
- 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).
- 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”.
- 1957 –Toronto‘s CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada’s first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n’Roll music format.
- 1960 –In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
- 1962 –The Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire starts.
- 1965 –Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
- 1967 –The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1997 –The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
- 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.
- 2005 –Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.
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