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In 2016, Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha. This featured entry focuses on the immediate decision and its direct historical impact.
May 27 in History
2016 — Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha
May 27 spans 55 recorded events across recorded history, from 1096 to 2018. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.
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Historical Events
55 events
1096 – 2018
Today in history
More major events on May 27
The featured story and these ranked highlights form a quick summary. Every recorded event remains available in the chronology below.
- 1967 The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline. Source
- 1999 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station. Source
- 1996 First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechen rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire. Read story Source
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan. This helps explain why the event mattered beyond the initial announcement.
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It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack at the end of World War II, and to the memories of the bomb's direct and indirect victims. This clarifies the institutional and public response around the event.
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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is visited by more than one million people each year. This shows how the event shaped policy and public communication in the same period.
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The park is there in memory of the victims of the nuclear attack on August 6, 1945, in which the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This helps explain why the event mattered beyond the initial announcement.
1096
Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens.
At least 600 Jews are killed.
1120
Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
11th/12th-century Italian nobleman
1257
Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.
King of Germany from 1257 to 1272
1595
A Gaelic Irish army successfully ambushes an English force in the battle of Clontibret during the Nine Years' War.
Battle fought during the Nine Years War
1644
Manchu regent Dorgon defeats 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.
East Asian ethnic group
1703
Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725
1798
The Pitt–Tierney duel takes place on Putney Heath outside London.
A bloodless duel between the prime minister of Great Britain William Pitt the Younger and his political opponent George Tierney.
1798
The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia.
Battle during the Irish Rebellion of 1798
1799
War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
Second war on revolutionary France by European monarchies
1813
War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1812–1815 conflict in North America
1832
An Egyptian army under Ibrahim Pasha captures Acre from the Ottomans after a five-months siege.
Egyptian general and Wāli of Egypt and Sudan (1789–1848)
1860
Giuseppe Garibaldi begins the Siege of Palermo, part of the wars of Italian unification.
Italian patriot and general (1807–1882)
1863
American Civil War: The first Union infantry assault of the Siege of Port Hudson occurs.
1861–1865 conflict in the United States
1874
The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
Explorations of southern Africa by Boer settlers
1896
The F4-strength St.
Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage.
1905
1915
HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks off Sheerness, Kent, with the loss of 352 lives.
5,394 GRT ocean liner
1917
Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
Head of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922
1919
The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
United States Navy flying boat, First aircraft to cross the Atlantic Ocean
1927
The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
American multinational automobile manufacturer
1930
The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
Office skyscraper in Manhattan, New York
1933
New Deal: The U.S.
Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1935
New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A.
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1937
In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
U.S. state
1940
World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
Global conflict (1939–1945)
1941
World War II: U.S.
president Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941
World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing almost 2,100 men.
German battleship of World War II
1942
World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
1942 assassination in Prague
1950
The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.
Amusement park in Helsinki, Finland
1958
First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
Fighter aircraft family developed from 1958
1960
In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
Country in Southeastern Europe and West Asia
1962
The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
Long-burning coal-seam fire in Pennsylvania, US
1965
Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1955–1975 war in Southeast Asia
1967
Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
1967 constitutional referendum on the legal status of Indigenous Australians
1967
The U.S.
Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1971
The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1971 railway accident in Dahlerau, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
1971
Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
Ethno-linguistic and religious population from India and Bangladesh
1975
Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33, the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
1975 road accident in North Yorkshire, England
1977
A plane crash at José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, kills 67.
1977 aviation accident in Cuba
1980
The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1980 anti-government protest in South Korea
1984
The Danube–Black Sea Canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus.
It had been under construction since the 1950s.
1988
Somaliland War of Independence: The Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then the second- and third-largest cities of Somalia.
1981–1991 conflict part of Somali Civil War
1996
First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechen rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1994–1996 war between Russia and Chechen separatists
1997
The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
Tornado outbreak in Texas
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.
1995 domestic terrorism bombing in Oklahoma City
1999
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station.
Space Shuttle orbiter (1984–2011)
2001
Members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist group, seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
Jihadist militant group in the Philippines
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.
Earthquake in Java, Indonesia
2014
The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada are formed.
Association football club in India
2017
Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Canadian politician (born 1979)
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.
2018 flood in Maryland, United States