Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
May 27
| 1564 | John Calvin, one of the dominant figures of the Protestant Reformation, dies in Geneva. | |
| 1647 | Achsah Young becomes the first woman known to be executed as a witch in Massachusetts. | |
| 1668 | Three colonists are expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists. | |
| 1813 | Americans capture Fort George, Canada. | |
| 1907 | The Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco. | |
| 1919 | A U.S. Navy seaplane completes the first transatlantic flight. | |
| 1929 | Colonel Charles Lindbergh marries Anne Spencer Murrow. | |
| 1935 | The Supreme Court declares President Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Act unconstitutional. | |
| 1937 | San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge opens. | |
| 1941 | The German battleship Bismarck is sunk by British naval and air forces. | |
| 1942 | German General Rommel begins a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps. | |
| 1944 | American General MacArthur lands on Biak Island in New Guinea. | |
| 1960 | A military coup overthrows the democratic government of Turkey. | |
| 1969 | Construction begins on Walt Disney World in Florida. | |
| 1972 | President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev sign an arms reduction agreement. | |
| 1999 | The international war crimes tribunal indicts Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for war atrocities. | |
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Born on May 27 |
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| 1332 | Dante Alighieri, Italian writer. | |
| 1794 | Cornelius Vanderbilt, American industrialist and philanthropist. | |
| 1819 | Julia Ward Howe, writer of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." | |
| 1837 | Wild Bill [James Butler] Hickok, American frontiersman and lawman. | |
| 1878 | Isadora Duncan, dancer and choreographer. | |
| 1894 | (Samuel) Dashiell Hammett, detective writer (The Maltese Falcon). | |
| 1907 | Rachel Carson, biologist and writer (Silent Spring, The Sea Around Us). | |
| 1911 | Hubert Humphrey, U.S. politician. | |
| 1911 | Vincent Price, actor and horror film icon. | |
| 1912 | John Cheever, writer (The Wapshot Chronicles). | |
| 1915 | Herman Wouk, author (Winds of War, The Caine Mutiny). | |
| 1923 | Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under President Nixon. | |
| 1925 | Tony Hillerman, mystery novelist (The Blessing Way, Sacred Clowns). | |
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