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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Top of the Chrysler Building, New York City -
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Curtiss NC-4 after her transatlantic flight -
Golden Gate Bridge
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 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 section |
| 1923 – French racing drivers André Lagache and René Léonard won the first running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans near Le Mans, Sarthe, France. | both 1923 24 Hours of Le Mans and 24 Hours of Le Mans need references |
| 1942 – Czech fighters resisting Nazis in Prague ambushed and mortally wounded Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of Reich Security Main Office and the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1199 – John, who would posthumously become known as one of the most reviled Kings of England, was crowned.
- 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.
- 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeated the French and captured the strategically important town of Winterthur, Switzerland.
- 1874 – The first group of the Dorsland Trek, a series of explorations undertaken by Boers in search of political independence and better living conditions, departed 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.
- 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.
- 1930 – Standing at 319 metres (1,047 ft), 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.
- 1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge, at the time the world's longest suspension bridge by span, opened between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
- 1940 – Second World War: Soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment were executed by German troops after surrendering.
- 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, US, spread to an abandoned coal mine, where it continues burning to this day.
- 1967 – Australians overwhelmingly approved two amendments to the Australian Constitution granting the government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
- 1983 – A massive explosion at an illegal fireworks factory near Benton, Tennessee, US, 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 twelve months.
- 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.
Notes
- 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
May 27: Children's Day in Nigeria
- 1153 – Malcolm IV (pictured) became King of Scotland at the age of twelve.
- 1703 – Russian Tsar Peter I founded Saint Petersburg after reconquering the Ingrian land from Sweden during the Great Northern War.
- 1915 – HMS Princess Irene was obliterated by an explosion off Sheerness, United Kingdom, with the loss of 352 lives.
- 1935 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States that the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major component of the New Deal, was unconstitutional.
- 1995 – American actor Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse, leaving him a quadriplegic; he later became an activist on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries.