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.
- 1798 –The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
- 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.
- 1896 –The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 USD).
- 1905 –Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
- 1907 –Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
- 1919 –The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
- 1927 –The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
- 1941 –World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
- 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.
- 1967 –The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
- 1968 –The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
- 1971 –The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
- 1986 –the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, Dragon Quest is released in Japan.
- 1996 –First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
- 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.
- 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.
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