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27 May

On This Day: 27 May

John, the youngest and only surviving son of Henry II, is crowned – 51 days after the death of his elder brother, Richard I Click to show or hide the answer
Richard of Cornwall, second son of King John, is crowned as King of the Germans at Aachen (and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, as queen) Click to show or hide the answer
Oliver Cromwell refuses Parliament's offer of the title King of England Click to show or hide the answer
Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, beheaded Click to show or hide the answer
Parliament passes the Habeas Corpus Act Click to show or hide the answer
Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg as the capital of Russia Click to show or hide the answer
Adolf Andersson of Germany wins the first International Master chess tournament, in London Click to show or hide the answer
Dr. William Palmer found guilty of poisoning Click to show or hide the answer
Belgium becomes the first country to elect a government by proportional representation Click to show or hide the answer
The Japanese navy annihilates the Russian at Port Artur (Tsuskima Straits) Click to show or hide the answer
Pope Benedict XV promulgates the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law Click to show or hide the answer
Battle of Aisne begins Click to show or hide the answer
A five–man US crew lands in London to complete the first transatlantic flight (with stops) Click to show or hide the answer
Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of its Model T Click to show or hide the answer
The Chrysler Building in New York City opens to the public; at 1,046 feet (319 m) it was the tallest man–made structure at the time Click to show or hide the answer
Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer make the first ascent into the stratosphere (to 51,800 feet) Click to show or hide the answer
Disney releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, including the song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Click to show or hide the answer
Queen Mary begins her maiden voyage, from Southampton to New York, via Cherbourg Click to show or hide the answer
Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister Click to show or hide the answer
The Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, linking San Francisco to Marin County Click to show or hide the answer
99 soldiers from the Royal Norfolk Regiment, attempting to retreat to Dunkirk, are shot after surrendering to German troops at a farmhouse in the village of Le Paradis, in northern France; two survive, and hid until they were captured by German forces several days later Click to show or hide the answer
The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, after being hunted down relentlessly following the sinking of HMS Hood Click to show or hide the answer
Reinhard Heydrich, founder of the Nazi Party's Security Service, is fatally wounded in Prague by Czechoslovak army–in–exile soldiers; he dies of his injuries eight days later. This was the only government–sponsored targeted assassination of a senior Nazi leader during the Second World War, and led to a wave of reprisals by SS troops, including the destruction of villages and the mass killing of civilians Click to show or hide the answer
Communists take Shanghai as Chiang Kai–Shek's nationalists retreat towards Canton Click to show or hide the answer
European Defence Community set up Click to show or hide the answer
Buddy Holly and the Crickets release their first record Click to show or hide the answer
Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first Prime Minister of Kenya Click to show or hide the answer
Pandit Nehru, Prime Minister of India, dies suddenly at the age of 74 Click to show or hide the answer
Australians vote in a referendum to grant the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census Click to show or hide the answer
The aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline Click to show or hide the answer
The BBC bans the Beatles' A Day in the Life Click to show or hide the answer
Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre Click to show or hide the answer
33 lives are lost in a coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire – the highest ever death toll in a UK road accident Click to show or hide the answer
The Sex Pistols release God Save the Queen in the UK Click to show or hide the answer
At least 207 lives, and possibly many more, are lost as South Korean troops retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias following an uprising against the military government Click to show or hide the answer
Supporters of London teacher Blair Peach react with dismay to the verdict of misadventure brought by the jury at the inquest into his death in a demonstration against the National Front the previous year Click to show or hide the answer
Panic buying grips Moscow as the Kremlin announces the phasing out of food subsidies Click to show or hide the answer
A car bomb explodes outside the Uffizi Gallery, Florence; five people killed, 37 injured, and many works of art damaged Click to show or hide the answer
Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia, ending a 20–year exile Click to show or hide the answer
Boris Yeltsin signs a ceasefire agreement with Chechen leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev Click to show or hide the answer
Russia signs a security pact with NATO – finally ending the Cold War Click to show or hide the answer
Increased fighting between India and Pakistan over Kashmir causes worldwide concern Click to show or hide the answer
British Arctic explorer Pen Hadow is rescued after being trapped at the North Pole for eight days. He had become the first person to walk to the North Pole, unsupported, by the toughest route (from Ward Hunt Island, Canada) Click to show or hide the answer
An earthquake in Java leaves 5,700 dead, 37,000 injured, and 100,000 homeless Click to show or hide the answer

© Haydn Thompson 2019