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Monday, May 27, 2013

This will be 147th day of the year and 218 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 18 Sivan 5773
Chinese calendar — the 18th day of the 4th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

May 27 Birthdays

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Pronunciation: [kis´unjur]
1923–, American political scientist and U.S. Secretary of State (1973–77), born in Fürth, Germany.

Cornelius Vanderbilt
industrialist, financier (1794)

Julia Ward Howe
author and social reformer (1819)

Wild Bill Hickok
frontier marshal (1837)

Dashiell Hammett
writer (1894)

Rachel Louise Carson
biologist, author (1907)

John Cheever
novelist (1912)

May 2013

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5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

May 27 in History

1647

The first recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged.

1703

St. Petersburg was founded by Czar Peter the Great.

1936

The Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage, arriving in France four hours later.

1937

Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened.

1941

British ships sank the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of France, resulting in the loss of 2,300 lives.

1994

Nobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile.

1996

After a year and a half of bloodshed, Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with the leader of the Chechen rebels and negotiated a cease-fire.

1999

Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.