May 27

This day in history:

• 1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
• 1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
• 1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
• 2001 – Members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist group, seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.

Births:

• 1923 – Sumner Redstone, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2020)
• 1987 – Bella Heathcote, Australian actress
• 1991 – Armando Sadiku, Albanian footballer

Deaths:

• 1960 – James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (born 1877)
• 1947 – Ed Konetchy, American baseball player and manager (born 1885)
• 2009 – Gérard Jean-Juste, Haitian-American priest and theologian (born 1946)

Holidays:

• Mother's Day (Bolivia)
• Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin)
• Start of National Reconciliation Week (Australia)

Random Article of the day:

Poker Face (2022 film)

Poker Face is a 2022 Australian-American thriller film written by, directed by and starring Russell Crowe. It co-stars Liam Hemsworth and RZA. The film had a limited theatrical release on November 16, 2022 and was released on demand on November 22, 2022.

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Today In Metal History 🤘 May 27th, 2025 🤘 ALICE IN CHAINS, LED ZEPPELIN, ALESTORM, CHRISTOPHER LEE, DEATH ANGEL

https://bravewords.com/today-in-metal/today-in-metal-history-%f0%9f%a4%98-may-27th-2025-%f0%9f%a4%98-alice-in-chains-led-zeppelin-alestorm-christopher-lee-death-angel/

#TodayInMetalHistory #MetalHistory #May27 #AliceInChains #LedZeppelin #Alestorm #ChristopherLee #DeathAngel #BraveWords #MetalNews #MetalLegends #HeavyMetal #MetalAnniversaries

[12:50 PM] Dutch privacy regulator concerned over Meta’s AI plans using Facebook, Instagram posts

Instagram and Facebook users in the Netherlands who do not want their data used to train Meta’s artificial intelligence models must file an objection before May 27, 2025, the Dutch Data Protection

https://nltimes.nl/2025/04/24/dutch-privacy-regulator-concerned-metas-ai-plans-using-facebook-instagram-posts

#Instagram #Netherlands #Meta #May27,2025 #theDutchDataProtection

May 27

This day in history:

• 1988 – Somaliland War of Independence: The Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then the second- and third-largest cities of Somalia.
• 1975 – Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• 1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.

Births:

• 1977 – Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian high jumper
• 1946 – John Williams, English motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
• 1935 – Lee Meriwether, American model and actress, Miss America 1955

Deaths:

• 2021 – Poul Schlüter, former Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1929)
• 1949 – Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (b. 1890)
• 1988 – Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (b. 1908)

Holidays:

• Mother's Day (Bolivia)
• *Christian feast day:*
• Start of National Reconciliation Week (Australia)

Random Article of the day:

Daram, Samar

Daram, officially the Municipality of Daram (Waray: Bungto han Daram; Tagalog: Bayan ng Daram), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Samar, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 41,608 people.

#wikipedia #May27 #Daram,Samar

Mistigram: if you like tracker music, it’s time to get proper oldschool, since as AdeptApril’s #ANSIart screen suggests, today is #PlayerPiano Day! There ain’t no party like a speelklok party because a speelklok party don’t stop!

https://mistfunk.wordpress.com/2024/05/27/adeptapril-may27/

#27May #AdeptApril #ANSIArt #ANSIart #may27 #playerPiano #PlayerPiano

Song of the Day May 27 2024

n remembrance of the birth of Lisa Lopes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Lopes

Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes - “The Block Party”

https://youtu.be/kl-gEopCI4U?si=-zdEvjnx6nSTq5-w

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #May27 #LisaLopes #TheBlockParty #LeftEye #TLC #Rap #RNB #Music #MusicVideo #TwntyTwoYearsWithoutLeftEye #2000s

Song of the Day May 27 2024

n remembrance of the birth of Lisa Lopes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Lopes

Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes - “The Block Party”

https://youtu.be/kl-gEopCI4U?si=-zdEvjnx6nSTq5-w

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #May27 #LisaLopes #TheBlockParty #LeftEye #TLC #Rap #RNB #Music #MusicVideo #TwntyTwoYearsWithoutLeftEye #2000s

#otd in 1955, President Truman confessed on Ed Murrow's Person to Person show that he believed that the White House was haunted.

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 27 May:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/05/27-may.html

#OnThisDate #onthisday #ThisDayInHistory #27may #may27