History Events on May 27

The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.

#Ford_Motor_Company

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.

#World_War_II

American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.

#American_Civil_War

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.

#Dibbles_Bridge_coach_crash

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.

#Aircraft_carrier

World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.

#Operation_Anthropoid

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).

#Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States

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.

#Oklahoma_City_bombing

The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia.

#Battle_of_Oulart_Hill

In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.

#California

Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.

#Russo-Japanese_War

New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.

#New_Deal

World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".

#President_of_the_United_States

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.

#Islamism

First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.

#McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_II

War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.

#War_of_the_Second_Coalition

Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.

#Tsar

Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley causing one death and destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City and causing cars to overturn.

#2018_Maryland_flood

Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.

#Barack_Obama

The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"

#The_Walt_Disney_Company

The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.

#Centralia_mine_fire

Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.

#Giuseppe_Garibaldi

The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.

#Dorsland_Trek

Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.

#Richard_of_Cornwall

War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.

#War_of_1812

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.

#Pope_Benedict_XV

World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.

#German_battleship_Bismarck

Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.

#Malcolm_IV_of_Scotland

John is crowned King of England.

#John,_King_of_England

In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.

#Turkey

Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.

#Vietnam_War

Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.

#Alexander_III_of_Russia

The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.

#1997_Central_Texas_tornado_outbreak

First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.

#First_Chechen_War

Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.

#Bengali_Hindus

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.

#2006_Yogyakarta_earthquake

The Danube-Black Sea canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceau?escus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.

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.

The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.

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.

The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.

The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.

The F4-strength 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).

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.

Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.

Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.