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The
27t o Mey
is the 147t day o the year (148t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 218 days ti come.
Events
- 1199
- King
John o Ingland
is crouned.
- 1293
- A
yirdquauk
in Kamakura,
Japan
, kills 23,000 fowk.
- 1328
- King
Philip IV o Fraunce
is crouned.
- 1703
-
Peter I o Roushie
founds
Saunt Petersburg
.
- 1883
-
Alexander III o Roushie
is crouned Tsar.
- 1915
- The minelayer "Princess Irene" splodes in the harbour o Sheerness,
River Thames
Estuary, killin 400 fowk.
- 1930
- The
Chrysler
biggin in
New York Ceety
opens tae the public.
- 1934
- The first gemmes o the
1934
FIFA Warld Cup
tak place.
- 1937
- The
Golden Gate Brig
in
San Francisco
,
Californie
, opens tae pedestrians.
- 1941
-
Warld War II
: German battleship "Bismarck" is sunk in the North
Atlantic Ocean
, killin 2,100 fowk.
- 1964
-
Prime meenister
o
Indie
Jawaharlal Nehru
dies agit 74.
- 1971
- The Dahlerau
train
disaster near
Wuppertal
, Wastren
Germany
, kills 46 fowk.
- 1995
- A major
yirdquauk
strikes
Sakhalin
Island,
Roushie
.
- 2006
- A major
yirdquauk
strikes central
Java
,
Indonesie
(incluidin the ceety o
Yogyakarta
), killin 5,700 fowk.
- 2015
- Warld
fitbaa
's governin body
FIFA
is caught in a major corruption scandal, as several offeecials are arrestit in
New York Ceety
.
- 2016
-
Barack Obama
becomes the first sittin US Preses tae veesit
Hiroshima
,
Japan
.
- 2017
-
British Airways
suffers a
computer
failur, disruptin its flichts aroond the warld.
- 2017
-
Celtic F.C.
defeat
Aiberdeen F.C.
2-1 tae win the
Scottish Cup
an complete an unbeaten domestic saison.
Births
- 1652
-
Elisabeth Charlotte o the Palatinate
(d.
1722
)
- 1756
-
Maximilian I Joseph o Bavarie
(d.
1825
)
- 1794
-
Cornelius Vanderbilt
, American businessman (d.
1877
)
- 1812
-
Robert Stirling Newall
, Scots ingineer an astronomer (d.
1889
)
- 1837
-
Wild Bill Hickok
, American Wastren figure (d.
1876
)
- 1856
-
Tom Vallance
, Scots fitbawer (d.
1935
)
- 1876
-
Sir John Gilmour, 2nt Baronet
, Scots politeecian (d.
1940
)
- 1877
-
Isadora Duncan
, American dancer (d.
1927
)
- 1894
-
Dashiell Hammett
, American writer (d.
1961
)
- 1897
-
John Cockcroft
, Breetish pheesicist (d.
1967
)
- 1907
-
Rachel Carson
, American biologist, environmentalist an writer (d.
1964
)
- 1911
-
Hubert Humphrey
,
Vice Preses o the Unitit States
(d.
1978
)
- 1911
-
Vincent Price
, American actor (d.
1993
)
- 1918
-
Yasuhiro Nakasone
, umwhile
Prime meenister
o
Japan
- 1922
-
Christopher Lee
, Inglis actor (d.
2015
)
- 1923
-
Henry Kissinger
, German-born 56t
Unitit States Secretar o State
- 1924
-
Jaime Lusinchi
,
Preses
o
Venezuela
(d.
2014
)
- 1928
-
Thea Musgrave
, Scots-American componer
- 1931
-
Faten Hamama
, Egyptian actress (d.
2015
)
- 1943
-
Cilla Black
, Inglis sangster (d.
2015
)
- 1950
-
Alex Gray
, Scots crime writer
- 1962
-
David Mundell
, Scots politeecian
- 1967
-
Paul Gascoigne
, Inglis fitbawer
- 1970
-
Tim Farron
, Inglis politeecian
- 1971
-
Paul Bettany
, Inglis actor
- 1975
-
Jamie Oliver
, Inglis chef
- 1980
-
Derek Young
, Scots fitbawer
- 1987
-
Gervinho
, Ivorian fitbawer
- 1988
-
Birkir Bjarnason
, Icelandic fitbawer
- 1990
-
Chris Colfer
, American actor
Daiths
- 923
-
Simeon I o Bulgarie
- 1508
-
Ludovico Sforza
, Duke o
Milan
(b.
1452
)
- 1564
-
John Calvin
, French releegious reformer (b.
1509
)
- 1602
-
Robert Stuart, Duke o Kintyre an Lorne
(b.
18 Januar
1602
)
- 1661
-
Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess o Argyll
, Scots nobleman, politeecian an peer (b.
1607
)
- 1836
-
William Fettes
, Scots businessman an philanthropist (b.
1750
)
- 1910
-
Robert Koch
, German medicinar an biologist (b.
1843
)
- 1931
-
Norah Neilson Gray
, Scots airtist (b.
1882
)
- 1964
-
Jawaharlal Nehru
, 1st
Prime meenister
o
Indie
(b.
1889
)
- 1979
-
Tommy Muirhead
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1897
)
- 1987
-
John Howard Northrop
, American biochemist (b.
1891
)
- 2002
-
Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson
, Scots historian an paleografer (b.
1909
)
- 2010
-
John William Finn
, American sodger (b.
1909
)
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