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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