- 1940 27 May 'Operation Dynamo', the mass evacuation of encircled British and French troops from Dunkirk, begins.
- 1941 27 May The German battleship 'Bismark' is sunk by the Royal Navy, with only 110 survivors from its 2,192 crew.
- 1942 27 May Reinhard Heydrich, an architect of Nazi genocide, is fatally wounded by Czech partisans in Prague.
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