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Historical Events on May 27

927
Death of Simeon I the Great, the first Bulgarian to be recognized as Emperor.
1120
Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1153
Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1199
John is crowned King of England.
1644
Manchu regent Dorgon defeats 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.
1703
Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1798
The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
1799
War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
1813
War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1860
Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
1863
American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
1874
The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
1883
Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1896
The F4-strength 1896 St. Louis-East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 US dollars).
1905
Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1907
Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco.
1917
Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
1919
The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1927
The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1930
The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1933
New Deal: The U.S. 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 Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
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).
1937
In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1940
World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
1941
World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941
World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
1942
World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
1960
In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1962
The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
1965
Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1967
Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
1967
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1971
The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1971
Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
1975
Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 - the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
1980
The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1996
First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1997
The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
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.
2001
Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
2006
The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
2016
Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.

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