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||1525 – Thomas Müntzer, German mystic and theologian dies ... a radical German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Luther and the Roman Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. Müntzer was foremost amongst those reformers who took issue with Luther’s compromises with feudal authority. He became a leader of the German peasant and plebeian uprising —commonly known as the German Peasants' War— of 1525, was captured after the battle of Frankenhausen, and was tortured and executed.
File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Factotum and regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] executed.
File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Factotum and regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] executed.
||1624 – Diego Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish sailor and cosmographer (b. c. 1580)


||Giovanni Battista Beccaria (d. 27 May 1781), Italian physicist,
||Giovanni Battista Beccaria (d. 27 May 1781), Italian physicist,
||1857 – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (d. 1928)


||Arvid Gerhard Damm (b. 27 May 1869) was a Swedish engineer and inventor. He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment. His company, AB Cryptograph, was a predecessor of Crypto AG.
||Arvid Gerhard Damm (b. 27 May 1869) was a Swedish engineer and inventor. He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment. His company, AB Cryptograph, was a predecessor of Crypto AG.
||1896 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839)


File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
||1898 – David Crosthwait, African-American engineer, inventor and writer (d. 1976)
||1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco.
||1910 – Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
||1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.


File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
||1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
||1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.


||John Torrence Tate Sr. (b. May 27, 1950) was an American physicist noted for his editorship of Physical Review between 1926 and 1950. He is the father of mathematician John Torrence Tate Jr.
||John Torrence Tate Sr. (b. May 27, 1950) was an American physicist noted for his editorship of Physical Review between 1926 and 1950. He is the father of mathematician John Torrence Tate Jr.
||1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
||1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
||1987 – John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
||1988 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
||2000 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer and pilot (b. 1912)
||2007 – Ed Yost, American inventor, created the hot air balloon (b. 1919)
||2009 – Abram Hoffer, Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist (b. 1917)
||2012 – Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician and academic (b. 1927)


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  • 1610: Factotum and regicide François Ravaillac executed.

    1610: Factotum and regicide François Ravaillac executed.

  • 1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

    1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

  • 1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

    1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

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