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What happened in history on this day: May 27?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On May 27 in ...
- 1981 - Apple Computer sells 2.6 million shares to the public, at US$31.25 per share.
- 1982 - Wang Laboratories introduces the Wang Professional Computer. Models feature Intel 16-bit processors. Prices are expected to be US$2700-9000.
- 1985 - Apple Computer ceases selling computers directly to corporations.
- 1985 - Lotus Development releases Lotus Jazz for the Macintosh, for US$595.
- 1997 - Power Computing begins shipping the PowerTower Pro 250 computer. It features Macintosh compatibility, 150 MHz PowerPC 604e processor, 32 MB RAM, a 2 GB hard drive, 16X CD-ROM drive, 1 MB Level 2 cache, 128-bit graphics accelerator, six PCI slots, nine expansion bays. Price is US$4495.
- 1999 - In federal court in Salt lake City, Utah, a hearing is held in the case of Caldera versus Microsoft. Lawyers for Microsoft defend the company's per-processor licensing practice as legal, as other options were available from Microsoft, most manufacturers did not accept the policy, and the practice did not apply to retail sales.
- 2002 - Handspring releases the Treo 270 handheld computer. It features 12-bit 40996-color display, 33 MHz Motorola Dragonball processor, keyboard, cell phone, 16 MB RAM. Size is 4.2 x 2.8 x 0.8 inches; weight is 5.4 ounces; price is US$499, including one-year cell phone service contract.
- 2002 - Handspring releases the Treo 90 handheld computer. It features color screen, Palm 4.1 OS, 16 MB RAM, keyboard, Secure Digital slot.
- 1933 - Radio City Music Hall in New York premieres the Silly Symphony film Three Little Pigs. The film cost US$60,000 to produce, but with revenue from merchandising, represents the studio's first profit-making film.
- 1938 - The Silly Symphony film Wynken, Blynken and Nod is released.
- 1941 - Richard Storey, of the Boston banking firm underwriting the studio's public stock offering, and Joseph Rosenberg from the Bank of America meet with Disney. They try unsuccessfully to convince Disney to recognize the Screen Cartoonists Guild.
- 1941 - Walt Disney meets with all staff, saying he would only bargain with a union chosen by majority vote in a secret ballot.
- 1948 - RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's animated and live-action feature film Melody Time to theaters. It includes the animated films Once Upon a Wintertime, Bumble Boogie, Johnny Appleseed, Little Toot, Blame it on the Samba (with Donald Duck), and Pecos Bill. Cost to produce the film was US$2 million.
- 1962 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring The Wetback Hound, and a preview of the film Big Red.
- 1965 - The Miami Herald newspaper reports Disney may be one possible buyer of some 30,000 acres 12 miles southwest of Orlando.
- 1977 - The Space Mountain ride is dedicated in Tomorrowland, at Disneyland. Total cost was US$20 million.
- 1987 - The NBC TV network airs An All New Adventure of Disney's Sport Goofy, Featuring Sport Goofy in Soccermania. Several Mickey Mouse and Goofy cartoons are shown, and the Goofy cartoon Sport Goofy in Soccermania debuts.
- 1992 - The Sequoia Lodge hotel opens at Euro Disneyland.
- 1995 - The Casey's Corner shop opens in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. Former name was Coca-Cola Refreshment Corner.
- 1996 - The Toy Story Funhouse at Disneyland closes.
- 1999 - Maldives issues 42 postage stamps marking the 70th anniversary of Mickey Mouse, depicting Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, and Pluto.
- 2003 - Disney releases the animated film Recess: All Growed Down on DVD and videocassette.
- 2004 - Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa opens in Walt Disney World.
- 2016 - Disney releases the film Alice Through the Looking Glass in the USA. Three versions are available: regular, 3D, and IMAX.
- 2002 - At the Lime Rock Park raceway in Lakeville, Connecticut, the Mohegan Sun Presents the Lime Rock Grand Prix race is held, round 3 of the Trans-Am Series for the BFGoodrich Tires Cup.
- Finishing 3rd is the Tom Gloy racing #88 Corvette, driven by Butch Leitzinger.
- Finishing 7th is the Derhaag Motorsports #40 Corvette, driven by Justin Bell.
- Finishing 8th is the Preformed Line Products #49 Corvette, driven by Randy Ruhlman.
- Finishing 9th is the Cenweld Corp./ McNichols Co. #23 Corvette, driven by Bob Ruman.
- Finishing 10th is the LG Motorsports #28 Corvette, driven by Lou Gigliotti.
- Finishing 12th is the Derhaag Motorsports #59 Corvette, driven by Simon Gregg.
- In 13th place, but not finishing the race, is the Trenton Forging #02 Corvette, driven by Stuart Hayner.
- In 14th place, but not finishing the race, is the K&N Filters #06 Corvette, driven by Joey Scarallo.
- 2002 - At the Lime Rock Park raceway in Lakeville, Connecticut, Round 3 of the Speed World Challenge GT Series is held.
- Finishing 5th is the KAC Technologies #15 Corvette Z06, driven by Eric Curran.
- Finishing 8th is the Metric Chemical #35 Corvette Z06, driven by David Farmer.
- Finishing 10th is the Aggregate Industries / 3R Racing #73 Corvette Z06, driven by Phil McClure.
- Finishing 17th is the Agua Velva #52 Corvette Z06, driven by Henry Gilbert.
- 2007 - At the Indianpolis Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana, the 91st Indianapolis 500 race is held. A 2007 Corvette Convertible is official pace car, driven by Patrick Dempsey. The car is Atomic Orange with gold ribbon graphics. Chevrolet begins selling replica Pace Cars as a US$14,000 option.
- 1938 - Swedish Foreign Minister Sandler announces that Sweden reserves the right to remain neutral.
- 1940 - Evacuation of Allied troops begins, from Dunkirk, France, across the English Channel.
- 1940 - German forces in France begin their advance again.
- 1940 - The British War Cabinet approves the view of the Chiefs of Staff that Britain and the Commonwealth nations alone could produce a crisis in Germany by the middle of 1941.
- 1940 - (1545 hours) Belgian King Léopold decides to cease resistance to the German army.
- 1940 - (1700 hours) Belgian General Deroussaux approaches the German army under a flag of truce, to learn the terms of a cease-fire.
- 1940 - (1805 hours) Weygand and Premier Paul Reynaud in Paris receive warning from King Léopold of Belgium that his Army would soon be forced to capitulate.
- 1941 - (morning) British ships knock out the Bismarck's fire control system, then the main turrets.
- 1941 - (1000 hours) All main armament guns of the Bismarck are out of commission.
- 1941 - (about 1000 hours) Commander of the Bismarck orders the ship scuttled.
- 1941 - (1010 hours) All secondary armament guns of the Bismarck are out of commission.
- 1941 - (about 1020 hours) British destroyer Dorsetshire strikes the Bismarck with three torpedoes, two starboard, one port.
- 1941 - (1040 hours) The German battleship Bismarck sinks, either from British shells and torpedoes, or from the German sailors scuttling it. 115 survive from a crew of over 2200.
- 1941 - In North Africa, German General Erwin Rommel launches a counterattack on Halfaya Pass, recapturing it.
- 1941 - On Crete, German forces reach Khania.
- 1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt declares an unlimited state of national emergency.
- 1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt orders 25,000 US troops readied to sail for the Portuguese Azores within a month.
- 1941 - General Archibald Wavell authorizes the evacuation of Crete.
- 1942 - (1000 hours) The German 90th Light Division in North Africa seizes El Adem and numerous supply dumps.
- 1942 - Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik, part of a Czechoslovak commando team from England, make an assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. Heydrich is wounded by grenade shrapnel, and later dies of the wound.
- 1942 - The Yorktown aircraft carrier arrives at Pearl Harbor.
- 1943 - In France, the National Resistance Council meets for the first time.
- 1943 - British Bomber Command head Arthur Harris issues an order to his Groups, to prepare for major raids on Hamburg, intent on "the total destruction of this city". Code name for the operation is Gomorrah.
- 1944 - (evening) 331 British bombers attack a German military camp at Bourg Leopold, Belgium.
- 1944 - (evening) British bombers attack targets in Aachen.
- 1991 - Marshall Islands issues four postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Bismarck.
- 1991 - Poland issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Bismarck.
- 1997 - Netherlands isues two 80-cent postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan for European reconstruction.
- 1986 - In Japan, Enix releases the Dragon Quest video game for the Famicom. The game was written by Yuji Horii.
- 1994 - Acclaim releases the Mortal Kombat video game for the Genesis in Japan.
- 2006 - At the Rosemont Theater in Chicago, Illinois, the "Play! A Video Game Symphony" world tour debuts. An orchestra symphony performs music from about 20 video games, including Castlevania, Halo, Shenmue, Silent Hill, Final Fantasy, Sonic the Hedgehog, World of Warcraft, Battlefield 1942, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and Metal Gear Solid, while video screens display images.
- 1629 - The Peace of Lübeck is signed between Denmark and the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1660 - Sweden signs a peace treaty with Denmark at Copenhagen, giving back Bornholm and Trondheim to Denmark.
- 1905 - Three Norwegian ministers in Stockholm present the bill to introduce a separate consular service in Norway within 12 months. The King refuses to sign the bill into law.
- 1938 - Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Norway enact a declaration on neutrality.
- 2005 - Norway issues two postage stamps to mark the 100th anniversary of the dissolution of Union with Sweden.
- 1976 - In the House of Commons, John Reynolds introduces the Numismatic Hobby Protection Act as a private member's bill. Bill C-439 would amend the Criminal Code, making it illegal to manufacture copies of non-current coins of numismatic value without clearly labelling them as copies.
- 1999 - The Royal Canadian Mint launches a circulating 1999 $2 coin commemorating the creation of Nunavut territory.
- 1996 - (or May 28) Superior Stamp & Coin sells at public auction a unique 1943-D Lincoln bronze cent graded MS-64 brown by NGC for $82,500.
- 2009 - (to May 31) Heritage Numismatic Auctions conducts Central States Signature Auction. Some highlights:
- 1804 $1 Class III, PR-58 PCGS: US$2.3 million;
- 1870-S $1, EF-40 PCGS: US$503,125;
- 1794 $1, AU-55 NGC: US$345,000;
- 1794 $1, MS-61 NGC: US$503,125;
- 1876-CC 20-cent, MS-66 PCGS: US$460,000.
- 1873 - First Preakness Stakes won by G Barbee aboard Survivor (2:43).
- 1878 - 6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75.
- 1878 - Australia Cricket 41 and 12-1 defeat MCC 33 and 19.
- 1881 - 9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40.5.
- 1882 - 10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44.5.
- 1902 - 27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8.
- 1903 - 37th Belmont Stakes: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75.
- 1904 - National League record of five stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, New York Giants).
- 1905 - 30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8.
- 1929 - Second Ryder Cup: Britain over Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England.
- 1933 - Trailing 11-3, New York Yankees score 12 runs in 8th inning and beat Chicago White Sox 15-11.
- 1937 - Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936).
- 1938 - Donald Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of England season, earliest to do so.
- 1948 - Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians.
- 1949 - Cleveland Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day".
- 1955 - Boston Red Sox player Norm Zauchin gets ten RBIs, beating Washington Senators 16-0.
- 1960 - Baltimore Orioles' manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt (used by Clint Courtney).
- 1961 - Fiorentina wins first Europe Cup II in Florence.
- 1961 - Ralph Boston of the US sets long jump record at 27 feet 0.5 inches.
- 1962 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open.
- 1963 - Three New Jersey businessmen purchase the NHL Colorado Rockies, and get approval to move them to the New Jersey Meadowlands (New Jersey Devils).
- 1964 - Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna, Austria.
- 1965 - Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan, Italy.
- 1968 - 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, New York Mets beat New York Yankees 4-3.
- 1968 - Major League Baseball announces expansion to San Diego and Montreal, Canada, first outside the confines of the United States.
- 1971 - 23rd Walker Cup: Great Britain/Ireland 13-United States 11.
- 1971 - UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship.
- 1973 - Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6.
- 1974 - Pittsburgh Pirates' Ken Brett no-hits San Diego Padres until 9th inning.
- 1975 - NHL Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2.
- 1979 - Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic.
- 1979 - Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins the race for the first time, and car owner Roger Penske for the second time.
- 1981 - Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris, France.
- 1982 - John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies and gets approval to move to New Jersey.
- 1984 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic.
- 1984 - Manuela Manleeva wins three singles tennis matches in one day.
- 1987 - Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna, Austria.
- 1987 - New York Yankees' Phil Niekro is third pitcher to make 700th start.
- 1990 - 74th Indianapolis 500 runs; Arie Luyendyk wins with an average speed of 185.981 mph.
- 1990 - Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game.
- 1990 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic.
- 1993 - Dale Murphy ends baseball career at 398 homeruns.
- 1997 - Major League Baseball revenue sharing begins, New York Yankees pay out most $28 million.
- 2006 - Derek Jeter becomes the eighth player in New York Yankees history to collect 2,000 career hits.
- 2007 - Dario Franchitti wins the 2007 Indianapolis 500.
- 2009 - In Rome's Stadio Olimpico in Italy, Barcelona defeats Manchester United of England to win the Champions League of soccer.
- 2015 - Seven senior officials of FIFA are arrested in a Swiss hotel, part of a US FBI investigation and Department of Justice naming of 14 people indicted for racketeering, wirefraud, paying bribes.
- 2022 - At Enterprise Center in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, NHL Western Conference 2nd Round, game 6: Colorado Avalanche defeats Saint Louis Blues by score 3-2, winning series 4-2.
- 2022 - At RingCentral Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Texas Rangers beats Oakland Athletics by score 8-5.
- 2022 - At Petco Park in San Diego, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: San Diego Padres beats Pittsburgh Pirates by score 4-3.
- 2022 - At Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Los Angeles Dodgers beats Arizona Diamondbacks by score 6-4.
- 2022 - At T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Washington, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Seattle Mariners beats Houston Astros by score 6-1.
- 2022 - At Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Toronto Blue Jays beats Los Angeles Angels by score 4-3.
- 2022 - At Busch Stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Saint Louis Cardinals beats Milwaukee Brewers by score 4-2.
- 2022 - At Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Minnesota Twins beats Kansas City Royals by score 10-7.
- 2022 - At Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Atlanta Braves beats Miami Marlins by score 6-4.
- 2022 - At Citi Field in New York City, New York, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: New York Mets beats Philadelphia Phillies by score 8-6.
- 2022 - At Tropicana Field in Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: New York Yankees beats Tampa Bay Rays by score 2-0.
- 2022 - At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Baltimore Orioles beats Boston Red Sox by score 12-8.
- 2022 - At Great America Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Cincinnati Reds beats San Francisco Giants by score 5-1.
- 1931 - Belgian scientist Auguste Picard launches hydrogen gas-filled balloon carrying himself and an assistant in a 300-pound, 82-inch diameter aluminum gondola. The balloon rises to a record 51,775 feet, and lands safely.
- 1958 - Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed).
- 1850 - Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois destroyed by tornado.
- 1896 - First major tornado to strike urban US (Saint Louis and East Saint Louis, Missouri); kills 255 and leaves thousands homeless.
- 1997 - The second-deadliest tornado of the 1990s hits in Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
- 1813 - Americans capture Fort George, Canada.
- 1850 - Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois destroyed by tornado.
- 1862 - Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia (Slash Church, Peake's Station).
- 1863 - The US Treasury Department ceases use of postage stamp impressions on Treasury paper as postage currency, due to resumption of minting of silver coins.
- 1863 - Edward Payson Chapin, USA Brigadier General, dies at age 31.
- 1863 - CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River, Georgia, 18 die.
- 1864 - Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia.
- 1896 - First major tornado to strike urban US (Saint Louis and East Saint Louis, Missouri); kills 255 and leaves thousands homeless.
- 1907 - Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco, California, USA.
- 1917 - Race riot in East Saint Louis, Illinois, USA; one black killed.
- 1919 - The US Navy NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon, Portugal, after completing the first trans-Atlantic flight (11 days).
- 1927 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Model T automobile and begins retooling plants to make Model A's.
- 1930 - The Chrysler Building opens to the public in New York. At 1,046 feet tall, it is the tallest man-made structure in the world.
- 1931 - First full-scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, in Langley Field, Virginia, USA.
- 1933 - (to November 12) The Century of Progress Exposition centennial fair is held in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1933 - Federal Securities Act signed.
- 1933 - Walt Disney's animated short film Three Little Pigs released to theaters.
- 1935 - US Supreme Court declares President Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Act unconstitutional.
- 1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge officially opens to pedestrian traffic. The bridge is the world's longest span to date, between San Francisco and Marin County.
- 1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero, "Batman".
- 1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor.
- 1942 - Dorie Miller, awarded Navy Cross medal for deeds at Pearl Harbor.
- 1943 - US forbids racial discrimination in war industry.
- 1948 - RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's animated and live-action feature film Melody Time to theaters in the USA. It includes the animated films Once Upon a Wintertime, Bumble Boogie, Johnny Appleseed, Little Toot, Blame it on the Samba (with Donald Duck), and Pecos Bill.
- 1956 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests).
- 1958 - The F-4 Phantom II first flies.
- 1958 - Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed).
- 1969 - Walt Disney World construction begins.
- 1977 - New York City fines George Willig 1 cent for each of 110 stories of the World Trade Center he climbed.
- 1983 - Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of US Congress.
- 1985 - Inaugural bands parade for US President Ronald Reagan.
- 1986 - US President Ronald Reagan orders two Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled.
- 1988 - US Senate ratifies a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles.
- 1997 - The second-deadliest tornado of the 1990s hits in Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
- 1998 - Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
- 2008 - A Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas in the USA reports prices of single-family homes dropped a record 14.4 percent in March from a year earlier. The US Commerce Department reports sales of new homes in April were down 42 percent from a year ago, the largest year-over-year drop in nearly 27 years.
- 2009 - (to May 31) Heritage Numismatic Auctions conducts Central States Signature Auction. Some highlights:
- US 1804 $1 Class III, PR-58 PCGS: US$2.3 million;
- US 1870-S $1, EF-40 PCGS: US$503,125;
- US 1794 $1, MS-61 NGC: US$503,125;
- US 1876-CC 20-cent, MS-66 PCGS: US$460,000.
- 2013 - Valeant Pharmaceuticals of Canada announces deal to acquire Bausch and Lomb of the USA for US$8.7 billion.
- 2019 - U.S. President Donald Trump, during an official state visit to Japan, is the first foreign leader to meet with Japanese emperor Naruhito.
- 2020 - The Chinese National People's Congress votes in favour of national security legislation that criminalizes "secession", "subversion", "terrorism" and foreign interference in Hong Kong; the legislation grants sweeping powers to the Chinese central government to suppress the Hong Kong democracy movement, including banning activist groups and curtailing civil liberties. The U.S. government responds by declaring Hong Kong is "no longer autonomous" under the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act.
- 2020 - The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 passes 100,000.
Other history:
- 1679 - Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in England.
- 2008 - Nepal's constituent assembly in Kathmandu votes 597 to 4 to abolish 240 years of royal rule, becoming a democratic republic nation.
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