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May 27: Day of the Week
May 27, 2024 is the 148th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 218 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.
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Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
May 27 Historical Event(s)
927
Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: the Croatian army, led by King Tomislav, defeats the Bulgarian Army.
1883
Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1905
Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1919
The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1933
The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
1935
New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1941
World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an “unlimited national emergency”.
1962
The Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire starts.
1999
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
2005
Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.
Who were born on May 27?
1601
Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1648)
1623
William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
1756
King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1825)
1827
Samuel F. Miller, New York representative to the U.S. House of Representatives (d. 1892)
1860
Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
1962
Ray Borner, Australian basketball player
1977
Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch footballer
1978
Adin Brown, American footballer
1983
Bobby Convey, American footballer
1987
Eric Kolelas, French actor
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