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.
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