About May 27
May 27, 2024 is the 148th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 218 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 247 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 27
- 927 –Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: the Croatian army, led by King Tomislav, defeats the Bulgarian Army.
- 1153 –Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
- 1813 –War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
- 1849 –The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
- 1863 –American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
- 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).
- 1907 –Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
- 1919 –The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
- 1933 –The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague.
- 1971 –The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
- 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.
- 1996 –First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
- 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.
- 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
- 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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