May 27, 2023: This Day in History

On May 27, 893, Simeon I established the powerful Bulgarian Empire

On May 27, 927, Simeon I, Emperor of Bulgaria, passed away

On May 27, 1129, Emperor Gaozong sent a letter to Jiankang and to the Jin people, stating: "I wish to use the Zhengshuo era name and be compared to a vassal."

On May 27, 1340, the Yuan government issued a decree prohibiting the private possession of weapons

On May 27, 1525, Thomas Müntzer, one of the pioneers of German utopian socialism, passed away

On May 27, 1644, the Battle of Shanhai Pass broke out

On May 27, 1684, Taiwan Prefecture and other counties were established, under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province.

On May 27, 1840, Niccolò Paganini, the "King of the Violin" of the 19th century, passed away

On May 27, 1897, the China Merchants Bank was founded

On May 27, 1900, the Boxer Rebellion surged

On May 27, 1903, the Shanghai Su Bao newspaper published an article by Zhang Binglin introducing Zou Rong's work, "Revolutionary Army"

On May 27, 1905, Fudan Public School was established

On May 27, 1907, the Huanggang Uprising failed

On May 27, 1916, a Japanese assassination attempt on Zhang Zuolin failed

On May 27, 1919, a seaplane successfully made the first transatlantic flight

On May 27, 1930, Gandhi was arrested, causing uproar in India

On May 27, 1931, the anti-Chiang faction of the Kuomintang established a separate Nationalist government

On May 27, 1931, Professor Piccard ascended to the stratosphere in a balloon

On May 27, 1941, President Roosevelt issued an emergency warning to the nation

On May 27, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck was sunk

On May 27, 1942, the Japanese army perpetrated the Dingxian Nanbeituan Village massacre

On May 27, 1942, Chen Duxiu passed away

On May 27, 1952, the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community was signed

On May 27, 1953, the Central Committee approved the report on "Problems of Public-Private Relationships in Capitalist Industry"

On May 27, 1970, Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

On May 27, 1975, a woman climbed Mount Everest from the north face for the first time

On May 27, 1983, China's first batch of doctoral graduates emerged

On May 27, 1985, 10,000 people went missing in a storm in Bangladesh

On May 27, 1985, the Central Committee issued the "Decision on Educational System Reform"

On May 27, 1985, the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Hong Kong Question came into effect

On May 27, 1992, Japanese manga artist Machiko Hasegawa passed away

On May 27, 1994, the new Shanghai University was officially established

On May 27, 1996, China's largest offshore oil field went into full production

On May 27, 1997, a document on relations between Russia and NATO was signed in Paris

On May 27, 1997, the United Nations budget experienced its first negative growth

On May 27, 1997, Zhang Junqiu, a master of Peking Opera, passed away

On May 27, 1998, Shu Tong, a renowned master of calligraphy, passed away

On May 27, 2005, the Central National Work Conference and the Fourth National Conference to Commend National Unity and Progress were held

On May 27, 2008, the Fengyun-3 meteorological satellite was launched in Taiyuan

On May 27, 2016, US President Barack Obama visited Hiroshima, Japan