27 May
Notable Births
Franco Colapinto
b. 2003
Argentine racing driver (born 2003)
Jérémy Doku
b. 2002
Belgian footballer (born 2002)
Abner Vinícius
b. 2000
Brazilian footballer (born 2000)
Matheus Cunha
b. 1999
Brazilian footballer (born 1999)
Lily-Rose Depp
b. 1999
French and American actress (born 1999)
Anna Bondár
b. 1997
Hungarian tennis player (born 1997)
Daniel Jones (American football)
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Konrad Laimer
b. 1997
Austrian footballer (born 1997)
Kim Jae-hwan (singer)
b. 1996
South Korean musician (born 1996)
Yoán Moncada
b. 1995
Cuban baseball player (born 1995)
Maximilian Arnold
b. 1994
German footballer (born 1994)
João Cancelo
b. 1994
Portuguese footballer (born 1994)
Aymeric Laporte
b. 1994
Footballer (born 1994)
Aaron Brown (sprinter)
b. 1992
Canadian sprinter (b. 1992)
Jeison Murillo
b. 1992
Colombian footballer (born 1992)
Laurence Vincent Lapointe
b. 1992
Canadian world champion canoeist (b. 1992)
Sébastien Dewaest
b. 1991
Belgian footballer (born 1991)
Tim Lafai
b. 1991
Samoa international rugby league footballer
Louis Gossett Jr.
b. 1936
American actor (1936–2024)
Philip Kotler
b. 1931
American marketing author, consultant, and professor (born 1931)
Notable Deaths
Freddie Aguilar
d. 2025
Filipino musician (1953–2025)
Elizabeth MacRae
d. 2024
American actress (1936–2024)
Bill Walton
d. 2024
American basketball player and sportscaster (1952–2024)
Poul Schlüter
d. 2021
Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993
Larry Kramer
d. 2020
American playwright and gay rights activist (1935–2020)
Gardner Dozois
d. 2018
American science fiction author and editor (1947–2018)
Gregg Allman
d. 2017
American musician (1947–2017)
Erik Carlsson
d. 2015
Swedish rally driver (1929–2015)
Nils Christie
d. 2015
Norwegian sociologist and criminologist (1928–2015)
Robert Genn
d. 2014
Canadian artist (1936–2014)
Helma Sanders-Brahms
d. 2014
German film director, screenwriter, producer and actress (1940–2014)
Roberto Vargas
d. 2014
Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1929)
Massimo Vignelli
d. 2014
Italian designer (1931–2014)
Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri
d. 2013
Indian politician (1917–2013)
Bill Pertwee
d. 2013
English actor (1926–2013)
Simeon Daniel
d. 2012
Friedrich Hirzebruch
d. 2012
German mathematician (1927–2012)
Jeff Conaway
d. 2011
American actor (1950–2011)
Margo Dydek
d. 2011
Polish basketball player (1974–2011)
Gil Scott-Heron
d. 2011
American soul and jazz poet, musician and author (1949–2011)
On This Day in History
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2018
Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.
2018 Central Maryland Flood
2017
Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Andrew Scheer
2016
Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
Barack Obama
2014
The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada are formed.
Kerala Blasters FC
2006
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
2001
Members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist group, seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
Abu Sayyaf
1999
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station.
Space Shuttle Discovery
1998
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
1997
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
1996
First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechen rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
First Chechen War
1988
Somaliland War of Independence: The Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then the second- and third-largest cities of Somalia.
Somaliland War of Independence
1984
The Danube–Black Sea Canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
Danube–Black Sea Canal
1980
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.
Gwangju Uprising
1977
A plane crash at José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, kills 67.
Aeroflot Flight 331
1975
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.
1975 Dibbles Bridge coach crash
1971
The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
Dahlerau train disaster
1971
Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
Bengali Hindus
1967
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.
1967 Australian referendum (Aboriginals)
1967
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)
1965
Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
Vietnam War