Historical Events  - May 27

1906 : Establishment of Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad.

1941 : WWII – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a state of emergency.

1951 : Taraporewala Aquarium started in Mumbai.

1964 : Gulzarilal Nanda became the caretaker Prime Minister of India.

1994 : Russian-born novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned home to Russia after being in exile in the United States for 20 years.

2016 : Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.

 Famous Birthdays  - May 27

1931: O. N. V. Kurup, a Malayalam poet and lyricist.

1938: Bhalchandra Nemade, an Indian Marathi language writer, poet, critic, and linguistic scholar. 

1942: K. V. Vijayendra Prasad, an Indian film screenwriter, and director.

1957: Nitin Gadkari, an Indian politician, and businessman.

1962: Ravi Shastri, an Indian cricket coach, former commentator, and cricketer.

1975: Mike Hussey, an Australian cricket coach, commentator, and former international cricketer.

1977: Mahela Jayawardene, a Sri Lankan cricket coach, and former cricketer. 

Death Anniversaries - May 27

1910: Robert Koch, a German physician, and microbiologist.

1919: Kandukuri Veeresalingam, a social reformer and writer.

1935: Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar, the first wife of B. R. Ambedkar.

1964: Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India.

1978: P. Kunhiraman Nair, an Indian writer of Malayalam literature.

1986: Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee, an Indian independence activist and politician former Chief Minister of West Bengal.

2007: Ed Yost, the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon.