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27 May| 27 May 1199 | England [administration] | John, the younger brother of the late King Richard I the Lionheart, is crowned as king of England. | | 27 May 1564 | Swiss Confederation, France [births and deaths] | John Calvin (French: Jean Calvin or Cauvin), leading French Protestant Reformer, whose doctrines are expressed in his Institutio Christianae religionis/Institutes of the Christian Religion, dies in Geneva, Swiss Confederation (54). | | 27–29 May 1905 | Japan, Russian Empire [Russo–Japanese War (1904–05)] | During the Battle of Tsushima in the Tsushima Strait between Korea and Japan, the Japanese fleet under Vice Admiral Heirachiro Togo sinks two-thirds of the recently-arrived Russian Baltic fleet commanded by Admiral Zinovi Rozhdestvenski. | | 27 May 1941 | Germany, UK [World War II (1939–45)] | The German battleship Bismarck, on its first and only sortie into the Atlantic, is sunk, after a long hunt, by units of Britain's Royal Navy west of Brest, France. | | 27–31 May 1952 | Europe [treaties] | The foreign ministers of France, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, and West Germany sign a series of agreements in Paris, France, establishing a European Defence Community (EDC), with reciprocal guarantees between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the EDC. | | 27 May 1964 | India [births and deaths] | Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of independent India 1947–64, dies in New Delhi, India (74). | | 27 May 1967 | UK [popular music] | The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) bans the Beatles' single ‘A Day in the Life’, as it is seen to be encouraging drug-taking. | | 27 May 2006 | Indonesia [natural disasters] | An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale off the southern coast of Java in Indonesia near the city of Yogyakarta kills over 6,000 people. |
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