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May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years ) of the year in the Gregorian calendar , with 218 days remaining.
Events
1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France .1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg .1813 - War of 1812 : In Canada , United States forces capture Fort George .1849 - The Great Hall of Euston station , London opened.1883 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia .1895 - Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy .1896 - An F5 tornado hits in East Saint Louis, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri killing 255 people. (see East St. Louis Tornado ).1901 - In New Jersey , the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.1905 - Russo-Japanese War : Battle of Tsushima ; decisive defeat of Russian fleet.1907 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California .1919 - The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.1923 - The first 24 hours of Le Mans race ends.1924 - The Music Corporation of America (MCA) is founded.1927 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As .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 1933 - The Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago, Illinois . 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).1936 - The RMS Queen Mary begins her maiden voyage.1937 - In California , the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County .1940 - World War II : 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at 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 North Atlantic killing 2,300 men. 1960 - In Turkey , General Cemal Gürsel leads a military coup d'état removing President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government.1963 - Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan ,1964 - Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.1965 - Vietnam War : United States warships begin bombardments of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.1968 - Future American president George W. Bush enlists in the Texas Air National Guard .1972 - President of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev and President of the United States Richard Nixon sign the SALT I agreements.1973 - According to the non-retroactive copyright laws of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics , all works published before this date are public domain . This applies worldwide.1974 - Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France .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 - A F5 tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas killing 27 people. (See Jarrell Tornado .)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 .2005 - Madagascar America .
Births 1652 - Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz (Charlotte Elizabeth, Duchesse d'Orléans ), Duchesse d'Orléans and sister-in-law of Louis XIV (d. 1722 )1738 - Nathaniel Gorham , American politician (d. 1796 )1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt , entrepreneur (d. 1877 )1819 - Julia Ward Howe , composer ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic ") (d. 1910 )1836 - Jay Gould , American financier (d. 1892 )1837 - Wild Bill Hickok , gunfighter (d. 1876 )1864 - Ante Trumbić, Croat politician (d. 1938 )1867 - Arnold Bennett , British novelist (d. 1931 )1871 - Georges Rouault , painter and graphic artist (d. 1958 )1877 or 1878 - Isadora Duncan , free form and interpretative dancer (d. 1927 )1879 - Karl Bühler, psychologist (d. 1963 )1884 - Max Brod , author (d. 1968 )1888 - Louis Durey , French composer (d. 1979 )1893 - Hermann Dornemann, world's oldest man from November 19 , 2004 1894 - Dashiell Hammett , author of detective novels (d. 1961 )1897 - John Cockcroft , British physicist (d. 1967 )1904 - Chuhei Nambu , Japanese athlete1907 - Rachel Carson , ecologist (d. 1964 )1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey , former Vice President of the United States (d. 1978 )1911 - Teddy Kollek , former mayor of Jerusalem 1911 - Vincent Price , actor (d. 1993 ) 1912 - Sam Snead , golf champion (d. 2002 )1912 - John Cheever , author (d. 1982 ) 1915 - Herman Wouk, writer1917 - Yasuhiro Nakasone , former Prime Minister of Japan 1921 - Caryl Chessman , murderer (d. 1960 )1922 - Christopher Lee , actor1923 - Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973 1923 - Sumner Redstone , entrepreneur 1925 - Tony Hillerman , mystery writer1930 - John Barth , novelist1934 - Harlan Ellison , science fiction author1935 - Lee Meriwether , Catwoman actress and former Miss America 1936 - Louis Gossett Jr. , actor1937 - Allan Carr , producer, writer (d. 1999 )1943 - Cilla Black , singer1945 - Bruce Cockburn , musician1947 - Branko Oblak , Slovenian football player1955 - Eric Bischoff , WWE performer1957 - Siouxsie Sioux , musician ("Siouxsie and the Banshees ")1958 - Neil Finn , New Zealand singer and songwriter1958 - Linnea Quigley , 'B' Movie actress 1958 - Wayne Williams , Atlanta, Georgia , child murderer 1961 - Peri Gilpin , actress1968 - Jeff Bagwell , baseball star1968 - Frank Thomas , baseball star 1970 - Joseph Fiennes , actor1971 - Paul Bettany , actor1971 - Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes , singer (d. 2002 ) 1974 - Danny Wuerffel , American football quarterback , Heisman Trophy winner1975 - Jamie Oliver , British celebrity chef and TV personality (The Naked Chef )
Deaths 927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria 1564 - John Calvin , religious reformer (b. 1509 )1610 - Ravaillac , assassin who killed Henry IV of France (b. 1578 )1661 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll , Scottish Covenanter , was beheaded1707 - Marquise de Montespan , mistress of the French King Louis XIV (b. 1641 )1797 - François-Noel Babeuf , French revolutionary and early socialist (b. 1760 )1831 - Jedediah Smith , American explorer (b. 1799 )1840 - Nicolò Paganini , Italian violinist, composer (b. 1782 )1910 - Robert Koch , German bacteriologist (b. 1843 )1926 - Srečko Kosovel , Slovenian poet1960 - James Montgomery Flagg , illustrator (b. 1877 )1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru , Indian politician (b. 1889 )1991 - Leopold Nowak , musicologist (b. 1904 )2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch , former Hong Kong Governor (b. 1917 )2000 - Maurice Richard , ice hockey player (b. 1921 ) 2003 - Luciano Berio , Italian composer (b. 1925 )
Holidays and observances
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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: May 27 (8046 words)
May 27 is the 147th day of the year (148th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar. May 27 , 2003 Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon states that the occupation of Palestinian territories is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians and cant continue endlessly. Hermann Dörnemann (May 27 , 1893 – ; March 2, 2005 ) of Germany was hailed in the press as the oldest living man in the world upon the death of American Fred H. Hale, Sr.
Physics Tip Sheet #47 - May 27, 2005 (848 words)
Previous researchers have shown that the Earth’s field is adequate for performing NMR studies on large samples (such as a cubic meter of ice), but the new research extends the technique to samples sizes only centimeters across. The advance may turn NMR into a valuable analysis tool in places where large magnets are impractical, such as the tight confines of well holes. Nanoscopic wires grown in gold may be the world’s smallest solenoids, according to new theoretical analysis of the structures.
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