May 27
- Eid al-AdhaIslamic
Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, at the culmination of the Hajj pilgrimage.
Follows the lunar Hijri calendar; the observed date can vary by a day with the moon sighting.
- 1096 CEJewish
During the First Crusade the Jewish community of Mainz was destroyed in the Rhineland massacres remembered in Ashkenazi tradition as the Gezerot Tatnu.
- 1564 CEChristian · died
John Calvin, the reformer and theologian whose 'Institutes' shaped Reformed Christianity, died at Geneva.
- 1906 CEBuddhist · born
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, the influential Thai monk and reformer who founded the forest monastery Suan Mokkh, was born in Chaiya, southern Thailand, in 1906.
- 1907 CEHindu · born
Rabindranath Bhattacharya, later the Kriya Yoga master Paramahamsa Hariharananda, was born in Nadia district, Bengal.
- 1986 CEIslamic · died
The Palestinian-American scholar of religion Ismail Raji al-Faruqi, known for his work on Islamic thought and interfaith study, was killed at his home in Pennsylvania.
- 1897 CEScience · born
John Cockcroft was born in Todmorden, England. With Ernest Walton he first split the atomic nucleus using an accelerator in 1932, work recognized with the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Trace this life → - 1907 CEScience · born
Rachel Carson was born near Springdale, Pennsylvania. A marine biologist and writer, her sea trilogy and later Silent Spring drew wide attention to the natural world and its stewardship.