Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 27

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  King John of England
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  Manchu Prince Dorgon
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  Top of the Chrysler Building, New York City
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  Giuseppe Garibaldi
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  Curtiss NC-4 after her transatlantic flight
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  Golden Gate Bridge
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  Rodney firing on Bismarck
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  Malcolm IV of Scotland
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  F-4 Phantom II
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  Christopher Reeve
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  HMS Princess Irene
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  Pope Benedict XV

• Manchu regent Dorgon defeated rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass
  , allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
• 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeated the French Army of the Danube, capturing the strategically important Swiss town of Winterthur.
• amphibious assault to capture Fort George in Upper Canada
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• 1896 – The St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, one of the deadliest and most destructive tornadoes in U.S. history, struck St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing more than 255 people and injuring at least 1,000 others.
• 1915 – HMS Princess Irene (pictured) exploded and sank off Sheerness, United Kingdom, with the loss of 352 lives.
• 1917 – Pope Benedict XV (pictured) promulgated the Pio-Benedictine Code, the first official comprehensive codification of Latin canon law.
• 1930 – Standing at 1,047 ft (319 m), New York City's Chrysler Building opened as the world's tallest building before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building 11 months later.
• 1935 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States that the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major component of the New Deal, was unconstitutional.
• 1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge, at the time the world's longest suspension bridge by span, opened between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
• 1940 – World War II: Ninety-seven soldiers of the British Royal Norfolk Regiment were killed after surrendering to German forces.
• 1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by gun and torpedo fire by the British battleships HMS Rodney and HMS King George V and supporting cruisers.
• was revoked
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• 1958 – The F-4 Phantom II, the principal air superiority jet fighter for both the U.S. Navy and Air Force, made its first flight.
• 1962 – A fire at a landfill in Centralia, Pennsylvania, spread to an abandoned coal mine, where it continues burning today.
• 1967 – Australians voted overwhelmingly for the number of Indigenous Australians to be included in population counts for constitutional purposes and for the federal government to make laws for their benefit.
• crashed in North Yorkshire
  , killing 32 people.
• 1995 – American actor Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse, leaving him quadriplegic; he later became an activist on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries.
• 1995 – Bosnian War: Elements of the Army of Republika Srpska captured the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, but were forced to withdraw by French United Nations peacekeepers several hours later.
• 2006 – An earthquake registering 6.4 M_w struck near the city of Yogyakarta on the southern side of the Indonesian island of Java, killing more than 5,700 people.
• Born/died: | Eutropius of Orange |d|475| Antoine Daniel |b|1601| Julia Ward Howe |b|1819| Arthur Mold |b|1863| Arnold Bennett |b|1867| Hans Lammers |b|1879| Wols |b|1913| Mal Evans |b|1935| Cilla Black |b|1943| Gün Sazak |d|1980| Gérard Jean-Juste |d|2009

• German battleship Bismarck appears on May 24 (Battle of the Denmark Strait]], so Last battle of Bismarck should not appear in the same year
• Woolworth Building appears on April 24 and Empire State Building appears on May 1, so Chrysler Building should not appear in the same year
• Great Wall of China appears on May 25 (beginning of the Manchu invasion), so Battle of Shanhai Pass should not appear in the same year