May 27: Children's Day in Nigeria
- 1153 – Malcolm IV (pictured) became King of Scotland at the age of twelve.
- 1703 – Russian Tsar Peter I founded Saint Petersburg after reconquering the Ingrian land from Sweden during the Great Northern War.
- 1915 – HMS Princess Irene was obliterated by an explosion off Sheerness, United Kingdom with the loss of 352 lives.
- 1935 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States that the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major component of the New Deal, was unconstitutional.
- 1995 – American actor Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse, leaving him a quadriplegic; he later became an activist on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries.
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