On this day in History - May 27

• s da0366 - Procopius dies (b. 0326). Roman usurper.
• 0735 - Bede dies (b. 0672 or 0673). English historian and theologian.
• 0866 - Ordoño I dies (b. 0831). King of Asturias
• 0927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria dies
• 1039 - Dirk III, Count of Holland dies.
• 1120 - Richard III of Capua anointed as prince a fortnight before his untimely death.
• 1153 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
• 1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France.
• 1332 - Ibn Khaldun was borm (d. 1406). Arab historian.
• 1444 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset dies (b. 1404). English military leader.
• 1498 - Vasco da Gama descobre o caminho marítimo para as Índias. Vasco da Gama was the first European to sail from Europe, round Africa, to India. He landed in Southwest India, on the 27th or 28th of May, 1498, just north of the then prosperous port of Calicut.
• 1508 - Ludovico Sforza dies (1452). Duke of Milan.
• 1519 - Girolamo Mei was born (d. 1594). Italian historian.
• 1525 - Thomas Muentzer dies. German rebel leader.
• 1541 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury dies executed (b. 1374). Daughter of George, Duke of Clarence.
• 1564 - John Calvin dies (b. 1509). French religious reformer.
• 1576 - Caspar Schoppe was born (d. 1649). German scholar.
• 1601 - Antoine Daniel was born (d. 1648). Jesuit missionary and martyr.
• 1610 - Ravaillac dies (b. 1578). French assassin who killed Henry IV of France.
• 1615 - Marguerite de Valois dies (b. 1553). Queen of Henry IV of France.
• 1623 - William Petty was born (d. 1687). English scientist and philosopher.
• 1626 - William II, Prince of Orange was born (d. 1650).
• 1647 - The first recorded execution of a witch in America takes place in Massachusetts.
• 1651 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles was born (d. 1729). French cardinal.
• 1652 - Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz (Charlotte Elizabeth, Duchesse d'Orléans), was born (d. 1722). Duchesse d'Orléans and sister-in-law of Louis XIV.
• 1661 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll dies beheaded. Scottish religious dissident
• 1675 - Gaspard Dughet dies (b. 1613). French painter.
• 1690 - Giovanni Legrenzi dies (b. 1626). Italian composer.
• 1702 - Dominique Bouhours dies (b. 1628). French critic.
• 1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
• 1707 - Marquise de Montespan dies (b. 1641). French mistress of Louis XIV of France.
• 1738 - Nathaniel Gorham was born (d. 1796). American politician.
• 1756 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria was born (d. 1825).
• 1781 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria dies (b. 1716). Italian physicist.
• 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt was born (d. 1877). American entrepreneur.
• 1797 - François-Noël Babeuf dies (b. 1760). French revolutionary and early socialist.
• 1812 - South American Wars of Independence: In Bolivia, the battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fought against the Spanish army.
• 1813 - War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
• 1818 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer was born (d. 30 Dec 1894). Women’s rights advocate and social reformer; newspaper publisher: The Lily; social reformer; led cause for more sensible dress for women: bloomer panties named after her.
• 1819 - Julia Ward Howe was born (d. 1910). Author and reformer, composer ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic") .
• 1821 - Morte de Francisco da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca Teixeira. 1º conde de Amarante - Portugal.
• 1823 - Sublevação militar dirigida pelo infante D. Miguel, filho de D. João VI, conhecida pela Vila-Francada. Terminou com a primeira experiência liberal portuguesa, iniciada com a Revolução de 1820.
• 1827 - Samuel F. Miller was born (d. 1892). American politician.
• 1831 - Jedediah Smith dies (b. 1799). American explorer.
• 1834 - D. Pedro IV é apupado no Teatro de S. Carlos, quando assistia à representação do Il Pirata, de Belini, devido à amnistia proclamada pela Concessão de Évora-Monte. Terá um ataque de hemoptises e adoecerá. Morrerá em Setembro seguinte.1835 - João Carlos Gregório Domingues assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
• 1836 - Jay Gould was born (d. 1892). American financier.
• 1837 - Wild Bill Hickok was born (d. 1876). American gunfighter.
• 1837 - Ivan Kramskoi was born (d. 1887). Russian painter.
• 1837 - Wild Bill Hickok was born. Frontiersman, marksman, and law enforcement officer
• 1840 - Nicolò Paganini dies (b. 1782). Italian violinist and composer.
• 1849 - The Great Hall of Euston station, London opened.
• 1855 - Bernardo Pinheiro Correia de Melo was born. Portuguese noble (Conde de Arnoso).
• 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily as part of the Italian Unification.
• 1862 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes was born (d. 1941). Portuguese politician, 7th President of Portugal, diplomat and writer
• 1864 - Ante Trumbić was born (d. 1938). Croat politician.
• 1867 - Arnold Bennett was born (d. 1931). British novelist.
• 1871 - Georges Rouault was born (d. 1958). Painter and graphic artist.
• 1876 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski was born (d. 1945). Polish writer.
• 1878 - Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco (d. 14 Sep 1927). Dancer. Revolutionized the concept of dance: changing ballet into interpretive dance; killed in freak accident [strangled when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of a Bugatti sports car she was riding in]
• 1879 - Karl Bühler was born (d. 1963). Psychologist.
• 1879 - Hans Lammers was born (d. 1962). German SS officer.
• 1883 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
• 1883 - Wolfgang Ostwald was born (d. 22 Nov 1943). German chemist who devoted his life as a teacher, researcher, editor and one of the founders of colloid chemistry.He was the second child of 1909 Nobel Laureate Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald.
• 1884 - Max Brod was born (d. 1968). Austrian author.
• 1887 - Kasimir Fajans was born. Polish-born American chemist and physicist.
• 1888 - Louis Durey was born (d. 1979). French composer.
• 1891 - Claude Champagne was born (d. 1965). French Canadian composer.
• 1893 - Hermann Dörnemann was born (d. 2 Mar 2005). German WW1 veteran and supercenetarian.
• 1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline was born (d. 1961). French writer.
• 1894 - Dashiell Hammett was born (d. 1961). American author.
• 1895 - Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy.
• 1896 - The F5-strength East St. Louis Tornado hits in East Saint Louis, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri, killing 255 people.
• 1896 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov dies (b. 1839). Russian physicist.
• 1897 - Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was born (d. 18 Sep 1967). British physicist, joint winner (with Ernest T.S. Walton of Ireland) of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics for pioneering the use of particle accelerators in studying the atomic nucleus.
• 1900 - Uładzimir Zylka was born (d. 1933). Belarusian poet.
• 1901 - In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
• 1904 - Chuhei Nambu was born (d. 1977). Japanese athlete.
• 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• 1907 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.1
• 1907 - Rachel Carson was born (d. 1964). American ecologist.
• 1910 - Robert Koch dies (b. 11 Dec 1843). German physician, a founder of the science of bacteriology, who discovered the tubercle bacillus (1882) and the cholera bacillus (1883). Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine laureate in 1905, "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis."
• 1911 - Aprovação do primeiro Código da Estrada português.
• 1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey was born (d. 13 Jan 1978). 38th Vice President of the United States.
• 1911 - Vincent Price was born in Saint Louis, Missouri (d. 1993). American actor.
• 1911 - Teddy Kollek was born (d. 2007). Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem.
• 1912 - Terry Moore was born (d. 1995). Baseball player.
• 1912 - John Cheever was born (d. 1982). American author.
• 1912 - Sam Snead was born (d. 2002). American golfer champion.
• 1913 - Wols was born (d. 1951). German painter.
• 1915 - Herman Wouk was born. American writer.
• 1918 - Yasuhiro Nakasone was born. Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1918 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia
• 1919 - The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
• 1919 - Kandukuri Veeresalingam dies (b. 1848). Social Reformer of Andhra Pradesh, India
• 1921 - Caryl Chessman was born (d. 1960).American robber and rapist.
• 1922 - Christopher Lee was born. English actor
• 1923 - Henry Kissinger was born. American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973
• 1923 - Sumner Redstone was born. American entrepreneur
• 1923 - The first 24 hours of Le Mans race ends.
• 1924 - The Music Corporation of America (MCA) is founded.
• 1925 - Tony Hillerman was born. American mystery writer.
• 1926 - Srečko Kosovel dies. Slovenian poet.
• 1927 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
• 1928 - Portugal ganha ao Chile por 4-2 no Estadio Olímpico de Amsterdam, no primeiro jogo dos Jogos Olímpicos de 1928. Aos 16 minutos de jogo Portugal perdia por 2-0.
• 1930 - The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
• 1930 - John Barth was born. American novelist.
• 1930 - William S. Sessions was born. American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 1930 - Gabriel Miró dies (b. 28 Jul 1879). Spanish writer.
• 1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
• 1933 - New Deal: In America The Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
• 1933 - The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
• 1933 - The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.
• 1933 - Ted Rogers was born. Canadian entrepreneur.
• 1934 - Harlan Ellison was born. American science fiction author.
• 1934 - World Football Championship begins in Italy / Início do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol realizado na Itália
• 1935 - New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
• 1935 - Lee Meriwether was born. Miss America and actress
• 1935 - Ramsey Lewis was born. American pianist
• 1935 - Mal Evans was born. British Beatles assistant
• 1936 - The RMS Queen Mary begins her maiden voyage.
• 1936 - Louis Gossett Jr., was born. American actor
• 1936 - Marcel Masse was born. Canadian politician
• 1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
• 1937 - Allan Carr was born (d. 1999). American film producer and writer.
• 1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
• 1939 - Socratis Kokkalis was born. Greek businessman, owner of Olympiacos
• 1940 - World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knochlein, is eventually hanged for war crimes.
• 1941 - World War II: In America President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
• 1941 - World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300 men.
• 1942 - World War II: Operation Anthropoid - assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.
• 1943 - Cilla Black (Priscilla Maria Veronica White) was born. English singer: You’re My World
• 1943 - Bruce Weitz was born. American actor: Hill Street Blues, Death of a Centerfold, The Liar’s Club, The O.J. Simpson Story, Molly and Gina
• 1944 - Alain Souchon was born. French singer and songwriter
  1945 - Bruce Cockburn was born. Canadian musician
• 1946 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen was born (d. 2005). Danish musician.
• 1947 - Branko Oblak was born. Slovenian football player.
• 1947 - Ed Konetchy dies (b. 1885). American baseball player.
• 1948 - Wubbo de Boer was born. Dutch civil servant.
• 1949 - Robert Ripley dies (b. 1890). American cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!).
• 1950 - Indonésia passa a ser membro da UNESCO.
• 1951 - Juan Domingo Peron is elected President of Argentina.
• 1951 - Ana Belén was born. Spanish singer and actress.
• 1953 - Jesse Burkett dies (b. 1868). American baseball player.
• 1955 - Richard Schiff was born. American actor.
• 1955 - Eric Bischoff was born. American professional wrestling promoter
• 1956 - Alianza Lima supera a Universitario por 2 goles a 1 y se proclama campeon de Peru en fútbol
• 1957 - Siouxsie Sioux was born. English musician ("Siouxsie and the Banshees ")
• 1958 - Neil Finn was born. New Zealand singer and songwriter
• 1958 - Linnea Quigley was born. American actress.
• 1960 - In Turkey, General Cemal Gürsel leads a military coup d'état removing President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government.
• 1960 - James Montgomery Flagg dies (b. 1877). American illustrator.
• 1961 - Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup Winners Cup in Florence
• 1961 - Peri Gilpin was born.American actress
• 1962 - Ray Borner was born. Australian basketball player
• 1963 - Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.
• 1963 - Jomo Kenyatta is elected as Kenya's first prime minister, he will be inaugurated on 1 June.
• 1963 -Aquilino Ribeiro dies (b. 13 Sep 1885 at Sernancelhe). Portuguese writer.
• 1963 - Gregoris Lambrakis dies (b. 1912). Greek physician and politician.
• 1964 - Adam Carolla was born. American comedian, radio and television personality.
• 1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office (b. 1889). Prime Minister of India.
• 1964 - Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Champions Cup in Vienna beating RealMadrid 3 -1
• 1965 - Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Champions Cup in Milan beating Benfica 1-0
• 1965 - Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombardments of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.
• 1965 - Adam Corola was born. Radio Personality.
• 1966 - Rafael Paasio assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia.
• 1967 - Australians vote in favour 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 (CV-67) is christened by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
• 1967 - Paul Gascoigne was born. British footballer.
• 1967 - Ernst Niekisch dies (b. 1889). German politician.
• 1968 - the meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (national Union of the students of France), most outstanding of the events of May 1968, proceeds and gathers 30.000 to 50.000 people in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
• 1968 - Future American president George W. Bush enlists in the Texas Air National Guard.
• 1968 - Jeff Bagwell was born. American baseball player
• 1968 - Frank Thomas was born. American baseball player
• 1969 - Jeffrey Hunter dies (b. 1926). American actor.
• 1970 - Tim Farron was born. British politician
• 1970 - Michele Bartoli was born. Italian cyclist
• 1970 - Joseph Fiennes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. English actor.
• 1970 - Estudiantes de La Plata se proclama tricampeón de Copa Libertadores al igualar sin goles frente a Peñarol, en Montevideo. En el partido de ida, había vencido por 1 gol a 0
• 1971 - The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
• 1971 - President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt signs a 15-year friendship treaty with the Soviet Union.
• 1971 - Paul Bettany was born. English actor.
• 1971 - Kaur Kender was born. Estonian author.
• 1971 - Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes was born (d. 2002). American singer.
• 1971 - Glenn Ross was born. Northern Irish strongman
• 1971 - Monika Schnarre was born. Canadian model
• 1972 - Ivete Sangalo was born in Juazeiro, Bahia. Brazilian singer
• 1973 - Ilona Kabos dies. Hungarian pianist.
• 1974 - Danny Wuerffel was born. American football quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner
• 1974 - Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1974 - É fixado em decreto o primeiro salário mínimo nacional, Esc. 3.300$00 mensais.
• 1974 - Derek Webb was born. American singer and songwriter (Caedmon's Call)
• 1974 - Danny Wuerffel was born. American football player
• 1975 - André 3000 was born. American musician (OutKast)
• 1975 - Jadakiss was born. American rapper (The Lox)
• 1975 - Jamie Oliver was born. British chef and television personality
• 1975 - Michael Hussey was born. Australian cricket player
• 1975 - Elijah Mudenda assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Zâmbia.
• 1977 - 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
• 1977 - An Aeroflot plane crashes, killing 69 people.
• 1977 - Abderrahmane Hammad was born. Algerian athlete
• 1977 - Mahela Jayawardene was born. Sri Lankan cricketer.
• 1979 - Mile Sterjovski was born. Australian footballer.
• 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.
• 1980 - É restabelecida, em Coimbra, a tradicional festa da Queima das Fitas. A festa tinha deixado de se realizar em 1969.
• 1981 - Marcos Miloy was born. Angolan footballer
• 1981 - Özgür Çevik was born. Turkish singer and actor
• 1983 - Bobby Convey was born. American soccer player
• 1984 - Kalle Spjuth was born. Swedish bandy player
• 1985 - Chien-Ming Chiang was born. Taiwanese baseball player
• 1986 - Maxwell Kinney was born. Airman.
• 1986 - Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi dies (b. 1921). Palestinian-American Muslim thinker, philosopher, and comparative religion scholar.
• 1987 - John Howard Northrop dies (b. 5 Jul 1891). American biochemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry-1946 laureate (with James B. Sumner and Wendell M. Stanley) for successfully purifying and crystallizing certain enzymes, thus enabling him to determine their chemical nature.
• 1987 - FC Porto win their first European Champions Cup, beating 2-1 Bayern München , in Prater Stadium,Wien, with goals scored by Madjer (famous goal) and Juary.
• 1988 - Ernst (August Friedrich) Ruska dies (b. 25 Dec 1906). German electrical engineer who invented the electron microscope. For "his fundamental work in electron optics and for the design of the first electron microscope" he was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1986 (with Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig).
• 1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky dies (b. 1907). Russian poet.
• 1990 - Portugal: Jorge Sampaio is reelected General-Secretary of Socialist Party at the end of the IX Congress.
• 1990 - Robert B. Meyner dies (b. 1908). American politician.
• 1991 - Leopold Nowak dies (b. 1904). Austrian musicologist.
• 1991 - Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die.
• 1992 - Uncle Charlie Osborne dies (b. 1890). American fiddler.
• 1993 - Mary Philbin dies (b. 1903). American actress.
• 1993 - Werner Stocker dies (b. 1955). German actor.
• 1994 - Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to live in his native Russia after 20 years in exile.
• 1995 - In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
• 1996 - First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.
• 1997 - The F5-strength Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
• 1997 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
• 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.
• 1999 - The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
• 2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch dies (b. 1917). British Governor of Hong Kong.
• 2000 - Maurice Richard dies (b. 1921). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 2001 - Ramon Bieri dies (b. 1929). American actor.
• 2003 - Luciano Berio dies (b. 1925). Italian composer.
• 2004 - José Augusto Seabra dies at 66. Portuguese diplomat, politician and professor
• 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.
• 2006 - Craig Heyward dies (b. 1966). American football player.
• 2006 - Paul Gleason dies (b. 1939). American actor.
• 2006 - Alex Toth dies (b. 1928). American cartoonist.
• 2006 - Rob Borsellino dies(b. 1949). American columnist.
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