| | 27 May History: This Date |
 | | In January 1905, the strategic naval base of Port Arthur fell to Japanese naval and ground forces under Admiral Heihachiro Togo [27 Jan 1848 – 30 May 1934], and, in March, Russian troops were defeated at Shenyang, China, by Japanese Field Marshal Iwao Oyama. |
 | | On 27 April 1861, Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus between Washington and Philadelphia to give military authorities the necessary power to silence dissenters and rebels. |
 | | He was the 38th vice president of the United States (1965—1969) in the Democratic administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson [27 Aug 1908 – 22 Jan 1973] and presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in 1968. |
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