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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| 1703 – Russian Tsar Peter I founded Saint Petersburg after reconquering the Ingrian land from Sweden during the Great Northern War. | refimprove section |
| 1860 – Expedition of the Thousand: Giuseppe Garibaldi and his Redshirts launched their attack on Palermo. | appears on May 5 |
| 1908 – Day celebrated as establishment of the second manifestation of God's power within the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. | refimprove, date not present in article, tagged for expansion |
| 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 |
| 1999 – Former President of Serbia Slobodan Milošević was indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo. | refimprove sections, original research |
Eligible
- 1153 – Malcolm IV became King of Scotland at the age of twelve.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
May 27: Pentecost (Western Christianity, 2012); Children's Day in Nigeria
- 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeated the French and captured the strategically important town of Winterthur, Switzerland.
- 1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge (pictured), 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.
- 1962 – A fire at a landfill in Centralia, Pennsylvania, US, spread to an abandoned coal mine, where it continues burning to this day.
- 2001 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf kidnapped 20 tourists in Palawan, Philippines, triggering a hostage crisis that lasted over twelve months.