What are the important events that happened on May 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

May 27: Facts & Myths About This Day

May 27 is the 148^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 14, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,716,768,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatetracontaoctagon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,175 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

May 27 Historical Events

• 1863 –
  American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
• 1907 –
  Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
• 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 A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
• 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”.
• 1971 –
  The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
• 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.
• 2005 –
  Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.

Who were born on May 27?

• 1626 –
  William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
• 1820 –
  Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
• 1907 –
  Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and art critic (d. 1988)
• 1911 –
  Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States and Senator from Minnesota (d. 1978)
• 1921 –
  Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (d. 1960)
• 1958 –
  Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter (Split Enz, Crowded House)
• 1965 –
  Pat Cash, Australian tennis player
• 1971 –
  Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman
• 1971 –
  Mathew Batsiua, Nauruan politician
• 1974 –
  Derek Webb, American singer and songwriter (Caedmon’s Call)

Who died on May 27?

• 1564 –
  John Calvin, French religious reformer (b. 1509)
• 1918 –
  Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (b. 1869)
• 1953 –
  Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (b. 1868)
• 1967 –
  W. Otto Miessner, American composer and music educator (b. 1880)
• 1973 –
  P.Ramlee, Malaysian actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1922)
• 1986 –
  Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921)
• 2006 –
  Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
• 2006 –
  Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
• 2009 –
  Paul Sharratt, British-born American television producer (b. 1933)
• 2009 –
  Sir William Refshauge, Australian public health administrator (b. 1913)