📜 This Day in History

May 27

• 1096The largest of the Rhineland massacres took place in Mainz, where at least 1,100 Jews were killed by the People's Crusade.
• 1915HMS Princess Irene promulgated the Pio-Benedictine Code, the first official comprehensive codification of Latin canon law.
• 1940World War II: Ninety-seven soldiers of the British Royal Norfolk Regiment were killed after surrendering to German forces.
• 1963American singer Bob Dylan released The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, his first album to include a significant number of original songs.
• 1995American actor Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse, leaving him quadriplegic; he later became an activist on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries.
• 2014The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada were formed.

Born on this day

• 1332Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian and theologian (died 1406)
• 1907Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author (died 1964)
• 1922Christopher Lee, English actor (died 2015)
• 1923Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)