Birthdays
Alfred Horatio Belo
Turns 21 on this date
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Turns 42 on this date
John Neff Coombs
Turns 37 on this date
John Gray Foster
Turns 37 on this date
Robert Frederick Hoke
Turns 23 on this date
Julia Ward Howe
Turns 41 on this date
Richard Watson Humphriss
Turns 24 on this date
George Washington Johnson
Turns 49 on this date
Edwin Gray Lee
Turns 24 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | American ship founders in the Bay of Biscay and is abandoned without loss of life | 05/27/1860 |
| US/the World | Garibaldi and his volunteers engage in days of heavy street fighting in Sicily's capital city of Palermo |
05/27/1860 to 05/29/1860 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C. |
12/06/1859 to 06/24/1860 |
| Religion/Philosophy | Whitsunday or Pentecost | 05/27/1860 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Herald, “Bell and Everett Going Ahead,” May 27, 1860 | 05/27/1860 |