May 27: Ramadan begins (Islam, 2017)
Golden Gate Bridge
- 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeated the French and captured the strategically important town of Winterthur, Switzerland.
- 1874 – The first group of the Dorsland Trek, a series of explorations undertaken by Boers in search of political independence and better living conditions, departed South Africa for Angola.
- 1915 – HMS Princess Irene was obliterated by an explosion off Sheerness, United Kingdom, with the loss of 352 lives.
- 1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge (pictured), at the time the world's longest suspension bridge by span, opened between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
- 1967 – Australians voted overwhelmingly to include Indigenous Australians in the national census and for the government to make laws for their benefit.
Simeon I of Bulgaria (d. 927) · Hans Lammers (b. 1879) · Wols (b. 1913)
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