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On This Day, May 27
- 2018: Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.
- 2017: Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
- 2016: Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
- 2014: The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada are formed.
- 2006: The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.