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1851: The world’s first chess tournament was held in London. Adolf Anderssen, a maths teacher from Wrocław, won the tournament, which was held parallel to the 1851 Great Exhibition.
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1897: According to the Daily News of London, the first copies of the classic vampire novel Dracula, by Irish writer Bram Stoker, go on sale on May 27, 1897.
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1933: Walt Disney’s cartoon Three Little Pigs is released. The animated short film is one of the best-known cartoons of all time. In 1934, it was awarded the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
1937: The Golden Gate Bridge is opened. The suspension bridge connecting the San Francisco peninsula with Marin County is one of the most recognized works of United States architecture.
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1939: A boat carrying 937 refugees, almost all of whom are Jews fleeing Nazi persecution, is turned away from Havana, Cuba, on May 27, 1939. Only 28 immigrants are admitted into the country. After appeals to the United States and Canada for entry are denied, the rest are forced to sail back to Europe, where they’re distributed among several countries including Great Britain and France.
1942: Czech resistance fighters kill Reinhard Heydrich. The high-ranking German Nazi official was one of the main architects of the Holocaust. In retaliation, the Nazis murdered all male inhabitants over 15 years of age in the Czech village of Lidice and deported most of the remaining people to concentration camps.
1949: On May 27, 1949, unemployed 22-year-old model-actress Marilyn Monroe receives $50 for posing nude for a Los Angeles photographer against a red velvet backdrop. The picture will go on to become the most famous calendar photo in history and the principal attraction in the first issue of Playboy magazine.
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1963: South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela arrives for his first stay at the harsh Robben Island prison in Cape Town harbour, six months into a five-year prison sentence he was given for the offense of leaving the country without a passport.
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1967: The regions in Nigeria were dissolved and 12 states were created by General Yakubu Gowon who further subdivided the country, into twelve states. These include subdivision of the Eastern Region which will undermine its political power. The country has since been increased to 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) under various leaderships.
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2006: A massive earthquake devastates parts of Java, Indonesia
With 5 million people living within 50 km of the quake’s epicenter, about 6000 died, and 1.5 million were left homeless.
BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: May 27
Jamie Oliver, 49
Jamie Trevor Oliver MBE OSI is an English celebrity chef, former restaurateur, and cookbook author. He is known for his casual approach to cuisine, which has led him to front numerous television shows and open many restaurants. Oliver reached the public eye when his series The Naked Chef premiered in 1999.
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Mark Angel, 33 years
Nigerian comedian, scriptwriter, and video producer, in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, was born on 27 May 1991. His Mark Angel Comedy channel is followed by eight million YouTube subscribers and 20 million Facebook followers. He discovered and made a social media star of Nigerian child comedian Emmanuela Samuel, his niece.
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Henry Kissinger (27 May 1923-29 November 2023)
Henry Alfred Kissinger was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the United States Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 and national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He died at the age of 100.
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Christopher Lee (27 May 1922- 7 June 2015)
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ was an English actor, singer, and military officer. In a career spanning more than sixty years, Lee became known as an actor with a deep and commanding voice who often portrayed villains in horror and franchise films. He died at the age of 93.
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