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Today in History – May 27 in History
What happened on this day in history – May 27 in History around the world
| 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. | |
| Born on May 27 | ||
| 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). | |
