Today in History for 27th May 2025
Historical Events
1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death
1529 – 30 Jews of Posing, Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
1878 – 6th Preakness: C. Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75
1895 – British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
1958 – Ernest Green becomes the 1st African-American to graduate from Little Rock’s Central High School
Famous Birthdays
1332 – Ibn Khaldūn, North African Islamic scholar, philosopher and historian (Muqaddimah), born in Tunis (d. 1406)
1823 – John Gray Foster, American Major General (Union Army), born in Whitefield, New Hampshire (d. 1874)
1887 – Kazimierz Fajans, Polish-American physical chemist (Fajans’ rules), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1975)
1975 – André 3000 [Benjamin], American rapper (Outkast), and actor, born in Atlanta, Georgia
1981 – Miloy [Marcos Henriques], Angolan footballer, born in Luanda, Angola
Famous Deaths
1596 – Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies
1708 – Jacques Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 51
1797 – Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist and revolutionary, guillotined for planning an insurrection at 36
1994 – Norman Cook, British museum curator at the Guildhall, dies at 87
2010 – John William Finn, American US Navy sailor, awarded the 1st Medal of Honor of WWII for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, dies at 100
