About the day » Tuesday May 27, 1997Calender converter

• Annie STADTMAN (75), Rotterdam
• Bertus Johan Vis (64), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Weekhout (79), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Annie Duitz (82), Kvutzat Javne
• Derk Gerrit Vierwinden (90)
• Edward L. Staulcup (68), Winter Haven, Fla
• Clara E (79)
• Alice Postma (80), Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Anne Kats (80), Tiendeveen, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Allan Keith FREEMAN (62), Stettler, Alberta, Kanada

• 1989 » Igor Morozov, Estonian footballer
• 1990 » Chris Colfer, American actor and singer
• 1990 » Marcus Kruger, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1990 » Yenew Alamirew, Ethiopian runner
• 1991 » Eneli Vals, Estonian footballer
• 1991 » Ksenia Pervak, Russian tennis player
• 1991 » Sebastien Dewaest, Belgian footballer
• 1991 » Tim Lafai, Samoan rugby league player
• 1992 » Aaron Brown, Canadian sprinter
• 1992 » Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, Canadian canoer

• 1988 » Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (b. 1908)
• 1989 » Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1907)
• 1990 » Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1908)
• 1991 » Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist and theorist (b. 1904)
• 1992 » Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
• 1998 » Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
• 2000 » Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer and pilot (b. 1912)
• 2000 » Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1921)
• 2000 » Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish politician and diplomat, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)
• 2003 » Luciano Berio, Italian composer and educator (b. 1925)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
• April 3 » The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
• April 29 » The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
• July 4 » NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
• July 5 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP A. Thangathurai is shot dead at Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College in Trincomalee.
• November 17 » In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.
• December 11 » The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.

The temperature on May 27, 1997 was between 9.4 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.