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 147^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 14, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,748,304,000 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 ‘hectatetracontaheptagon’ 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 266 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 4,540 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

May 27 Historical Events

• 1860 –
  Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
• 1927 –
  The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
• 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.
• 1965 –
  Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Who were born on May 27?

• 1909 –
  Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist
• 1921 –
  Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (d. 1960)
• 1923 –
  Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
• 1925 –
  Tony Hillerman, American writer (d. 2008)
• 1947 –
  Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
• 1957 –
  Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
• 1973 –
  Tana Umaga, New Zealand rugby union player
• 1974 –
  Danny Wuerffel, American football player
• 1975 –
  André 3000, American rapper (OutKast)
• 1984 –
  Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player

Who died on May 27?

• 866 –
  King Ordoño I of Asturias (b. 831)
• 1039 –
  Dirk III, Count of Holland (b. between 981 and 989)
• 1564 –
  John Calvin, French religious reformer (b. 1509)
• 1945 –
  Enno Lolling, German SS-Standartenführer died by suicide (b. 1888)
• 1947 –
  Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1993 –
  Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)
• 2000 –
  Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
• 2006 –
  Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
• 2010 –
  Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator (b. 1929)
• 2011 –
  Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)