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Day Of The Week: May 27
May 27, 2025 is the 147th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 218 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Gemini is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 27
- 1120 –Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
- 1703 –Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
- 1930 –The 1046 ft Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
- 1941 –World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an “unlimited national emergency”.
- 1958 –The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
- 1960 –In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
- 1971 –The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
- 1986 –the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, Dragon Quest is released in Japan.
- 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 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.
Who were born on May 27?
- 1867 –Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
- 1893 –Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentenarian (d. 2005)
- 1906 –Buddhadasa, Thai Bhikkhu and philosopher (d. 1993)
- 1943 –Bruce Weitz, American actor
- 1945 –Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
- 1964 –Zheng Geping, Singaporean actor
- 1967 –Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
- 1971 –Monika Schnarre, Canadian model and actress
- 1975 –Jamie Oliver, English chef and television personality
- 1981 –Marcelo Bonan. Brazilian footballer
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