May 27

1813 – During the War of 1812, U.S. forces capture the British Fort George in Canada.

1896 – An F4 strength tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage.

1905 – During the Russo-Japanese War, the Battle of Tsushima Straight – between Korea and southern Japan –  begins. The only decisive sea battle ever fought by modern steel battleship fleets.

1919 – The U.S. Navy’s Curtiss NC-4 aircraft flying from a stop in the Azores, arrives in Lisbon completing the first transatlantic flight.

1927 – Having ceased production of the Model T, the Ford Motor Company  begins to retool plants to make the Model A.

1930 – The 1,046 foot tall Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man made structure at the time, opens to the public.

1933 – As part of the New Deal, President Roosevelt signs the U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law, requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.

1935 – In the case of A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional.

1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, linking San Francisco and Marin County, California.

1941 – After being severely damaged in combat, the battleship Bismarck is scuttled by the Germans as they abandon ship.

1942 –  Doris “Dorie” Miller, the first black man to be so, is awarded the Navy Cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor during the 7 December attacks.
On 19 January, 2020, the Navy announces that CVN-81, a Gerald R. Ford Class aircraft carrier, would be named after him.

1958 – With World War II veteran test pilot Robert Little at the controls, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.

1965 – U.S. Navy 7th Fleet destroyers of Task Group 70.8 begin the first bombardment of Viet Cong targets within South Vietnam.

1967 – At Newport News, Virginia, the U.S. Navy carrier CV-67, USS John F. Kennedy is christened by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.

1997 – An F5 strength tornado strikes Jarrell, Texas, destroying most of the 38 home Double Creek Estates, killing 27 people and injuring 12 others.

1998 – Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the plot to bomb the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City.

2016 – Barack Hussein Obama is the first U.S. president to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

2018 – Heavy rains cause the Patapsco and Tiber rivers in Maryland to flood causing the death of a National Guard solder and severely damaging every building on Main Street in Ellicott City, Maryland