Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 27
This is a list of selected May 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Pentecost (Eastern Christianity, 2018) | refimprove sections |
| Children's Day in Nigeria | refimprove |
| 1153 – Malcolm IV was crowned King of Scotland at the age of twelve. | missing information |
| 1703 – Russian Tsar Peter I founded Saint Petersburg after reconquering the Ingrian land from Sweden during the Great Northern War. | History: refimprove section; St Petersburg: refimprove section |
| 1860 – Expedition of the Thousand: Giuseppe Garibaldi and his Redshirts launched their attack on Palermo. | appears on May 5 |
| 1908 – Hakeem Noor-ud-Din was unanimously elected the head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a day after the death of its founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. | refimprove |
| 1919 – The Curtiss NC-4 flying boat arrived in Lisbon, Portugal, becoming the first fixed-wing aircraft to complete a transatlantic flight under its own power. | refimprove section |
| 1942 – World War II: Czech resistance fighters in Prague ambushed and mortally wounded Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of the Reich Security Main Office and the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1096 – The largest of the Rhineland massacres took place in Mainz, where at least 1,100 Jews were killed by the People's Crusade.
- 1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeated rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
- 1813 – War of 1812: The troops of the U.S. Army and vessels of the U.S. Navy cooperated in a successful amphibious assault to capture Fort George in Upper Canada.
- 1874 – The first group of nomadic pastoralists known as Trekboere set out on the Dorsland Trek, departing South Africa for Angola.
- 1896 – The St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, one of the deadliest and most destructive tornadoes in U.S. history, struck St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing more than 255 people and injuring at least 1,000 others.
- 1915 – HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, United Kingdom, with the loss of 352 lives.
- 1923 – French drivers André Lagache and René Léonard won the first running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car race.
- 1930 – Standing at 1,047 ft (319 m), New York City's Chrysler Building opened as the world's tallest building before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building 11 months later.
- 1935 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States that the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major component of the New Deal, was unconstitutional.
- 1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge, at the time the world's longest suspension bridge by span, opened between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
- 1958 – The F-4 Phantom II, the principal air superiority jet fighter for both the U.S. Navy and Air Force, made its first flight.
- 1962 – A fire at a landfill in Centralia, Pennsylvania, U.S., spread to an abandoned coal mine, where it continues burning to this day.
- 1967 – Australians voted overwhelmingly to include Indigenous Australians in the national census and for the government to make laws for their benefit.
- 1975 – The deadliest road accident in England took place when the brakes on a coach failed and it crashed in North Yorkshire, killing 32 people.
- 1983 – A massive explosion at an illegal fireworks factory near Benton, Tennessee, U.S., killed eleven people and caused damage within a radius of several miles.
- 2001 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf kidnapped 20 tourists in Palawan, Philippines, triggering a hostage crisis that lasted over a year.
- 2006 – An earthquake measuring about 6.3 Mw struck near the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Java, killing at least 5,700 people, injuring at least 36,000, and leaving at least 1.5 million homeless.
- Born/died: Simeon I of Bulgaria (d. 927) | Antoine Daniel (b. 1601) | Diego Ramírez de Arellano (d. 1624) | Julia Ward Howe (b. 1819) | Arthur Mold (b. 1863) | Hans Lammers (b. 1879) | Wols (b. 1913) | Mal Evans (b. 1935) | Gérard Jean-Juste (d. 2009)
Notes
- Woolworth Building appears on April 24 and Empire State Building appears on May 1, so Chrysler Building should not appear in the same year
- Great Wall of China appears on May 25 (beginning of the Manchu invasion), so Battle of Shanhai Pass should not appear in the same year
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- 1199 – King John, who posthumously became known as one of the most reviled English monarchs, was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
- 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeated troops of the French Army of the Danube, capturing the strategically important Swiss town of Winterthur.
- 1917 – Pope Benedict XV promulgated the Pio-Benedictine Code, the first official comprehensive codification of Latin canon law.
- 1940 – World War II: Ninety-seven soldiers of the British Royal Norfolk Regiment were killed after surrendering to German forces.
- 1995 – American actor Christopher Reeve (pictured) was thrown from his horse, leaving him quadriplegic; he later became an activist on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries.
- John Cockcroft (b. 1897)
- Cilla Black (b. 1943)
- John William Finn (d. 2010)