May 27 1798 The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia
May 27 1799 War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
May 27 1813 War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
May 27 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
May 27 1863 American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson
May 27 1905 Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
May 27 1941 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
May 27 1941 World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
May 27 1942
World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally
wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
May 27 1958 First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
May 27 1960 In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
May 27 1965 Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
May 27 1967 The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
May 27 1996 First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire
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