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On May 27, 1096: Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.

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Featured moment · 1096

Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.

Emicho is a masculine Germanic given name.

People

Born on May 27

Franco Colapinto 2003– Argentine racing driver (born 2003)
Jérémy Doku 2002– Belgian footballer (born 2002)
Gabri Veiga 2002– Spanish footballer (born 2002)
Abner Vinícius 2000– Brazilian footballer (born 2000)
Matheus Cunha 1999– Brazilian footballer (born 1999)
Lily-Rose Depp 1999– French and American actress and singer (born 1999)
Josep Martínez 1998– Spanish footballer (born 1998)
Anna Bondar 1997– Hungarian tennis player (born 1997)
Daniel Jones 1997– American football player (born 1997)
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Konrad Laimer 1997– Austrian footballer (born 1997)
Kim Jae-hwan 1996– South Korean musician (born 1996)
Yoán Moncada 1995– Cuban baseball player (born 1995)
Maximilian Arnold 1994– German footballer (born 1994)
João Cancelo 1994– Portuguese footballer (born 1994)
Aymeric Laporte 1994– Footballer (born 1994)
Aaron Brown 1992– Canadian sprinter (born 1992)
Jeison Murillo 1992– Colombian footballer (born 1992)
Laurence Vincent-Lapointe 1992– Canadian world champion canoeist (b. 1992)

People

Died on May 27

Freddie Aguilar Filipino musician (1953–2025)
Elizabeth MacRae American actress (1936–2024)
Bill Walton American basketball player and sportscaster (1952–2024)
Poul Schlüter Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993
Larry Kramer American playwright and gay rights activist (1935–2020)
Gardner Dozois American science fiction author and editor (1947–2018)
Gregg Allman American musician (1947–2017)
Erik Carlsson Swedish rally driver (1929–2015)
Nils Christie Norwegian sociologist and criminologist (1928–2015)
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Andy King English footballer (1956–2015)
Michael Martin American philosopher (1932–2015)
Robert Genn Canadian artist (1936–2014)
Helma Sanders-Brahms German film director, screenwriter, producer and actress (1940–2014)
Roberto Vargas Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1929)
Massimo Vignelli Italian designer (1931–2014)
Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri Indian politician (1917–2013)
Bill Pertwee English actor (1926–2013)
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow Malian politician

Timeline

Every May 27 on record

  1. 1096 Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.

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    Emicho is a masculine Germanic given name.

  2. 1120 Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.

    11/12th-century Italian nobleman

    Richard III was count of Aversa and prince of Capua briefly in 1120 between his anointing on 27 May and his death; he was the only son and heir of Robert I of Capua. He was an infant when his father died, and he fell under the regency of his uncle, Jordan. Richard III died within a few months and, though no contemporary chronicler blames him, some modern historians have cast doubt on Jordan's innocence.

  3. 1153 Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.

    King of Alba from 1153 to 1165

    Malcolm IV, nicknamed Virgo, "the Maiden" was King of Scotland from 1153 until his death. He was the eldest son of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbria and Ada de Warenne. The original Malcolm Canmore, a name now associated with his great-grandfather Malcolm III, he succeeded his grandfather David I, and shared David's Anglo-Norman tastes.

  4. 1199 John is crowned King of England.

    King of England from 1199 to 1216

    John was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century. The baronial revolt at the end of John's reign led to the sealing of Magna Carta, a document considered a foundational milestone in English and later British constitutional history.

  5. 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

    Richard was an English prince who was King of the Romans from 1257 until his death in 1272. He was the second son of John, King of England, and Isabella, Countess of Angoulême. Richard was nominal Count of Poitou from 1225 to 1243, and he also held the title Earl of Cornwall from 1225.

  6. 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.
  7. 1703 Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
  8. 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.
  9. 1798 The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia.
  10. 1799 War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
  11. 1813 War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
  12. 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi begins the Siege of Palermo, part of the wars of Italian unification.
  13. 1863 American Civil War: The first Union infantry assault of the Siege of Port Hudson occurs.
  14. 1874 The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
  15. 1883 Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
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  1. 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.
  2. 1905 Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
  3. 1915 HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks off Sheerness, Kent, with the loss of 352 lives.
  4. 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.
  5. 1919 The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
  6. 1927 The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
  7. 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.
  8. 1933 New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
  9. 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).
  10. 1937 In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
  11. 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.
  12. 1941 World War II: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
  13. 1941 World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing almost 2,100 men.
  14. 1942 World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
  15. 1950 The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.

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