** 27th Cannes Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award ( with French director René Clair )

** Early Dynastic Period of Egypt: 31st to 27th centuries BC

** Old Kingdom of Egypt: 27th to 22nd centuries BC

** James S. Sherman, 27th Vice President of the United States ( b. 1855 )

** WWII: The 27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division is re-created, marking the start of Operation Tempest by the Polish Home Army.

** East Timor is declared the 27th province of Indonesia.

** İsmet İnönü of CHP forms the new government of Turkey ( 27th government, coalition partners ; YTP and CKMP )

** King's Spanish Chasseur, 27th Chasseur Regts.

** 27th Bomb Group ( Light ) ( without assigned aircraft, 3 B-18 attached for training )

** 1st Motorised Artillery Division ( 25th, 26th, 27th Regts )

** 27th Army-General Peng Dehui

** 28th British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade ( previously organized as 27th British Commonwealth Brigade ):

** The Royal Irish Regiment ( 27th ( Inniskilling ) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment ) ( formed 1992 )

** 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment

** 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment " Wolfhounds "

** 27th Infantry Regiment

** 27th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA

** 27th Fighter-Escort Wing ( November-December 1950 ) Flew F-84E Thunderjets on armed reconnaissance, interdiction, fighter escort, and close air support missions.

** 27th Indian Mountain Battery, Royal Artillery Corps

** 27th Division

** 10th / 27th Battalion, The Royal South Australia Regiment

** 3 / 27th ( Inniskilling ) Regiment of Foot

** 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division-Halle

** 10th / 27th Battalion, Royal South Australia Regiment

** International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field ( abandoned ), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands

** U. S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories ( 1943 – 69 )

** United States Army Medical Unit ( 1956 – 69 )

** U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID ; 1969 – present )

** Belgisch Leger ( Belgian Army )

** Afghan National Army Regional Hospital at Camp Shaheen

** In the 1971 film Dad's Army, German aircrew with photographs vital to the invasion crash land in England.

** Army Ten-Miler road race at The Pentagon.

** German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by 2 Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe.

** German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison ; Irmgard Möller fails ( their supporters still claim they were murdered ).

** Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general ( b. 1918 )

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** Richard D. Winters, U. S. Army officer ( d. 2011 )

** Walter Tull, First Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army ( b. 1888 )

** In Bad Kleinen, Germany, GSG 9 troopers arrest Birgit Hogefeld and kill Wolfgang Grams two Red Army Faction terrorists.

** The United States Army suspends Gene C. McKinney, Sergeant Major of the Army, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.

** An Irish Republican Army attack on the Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O ' Hanlon.

** The U. S. military sustains its first combat fatality in Vietnam, Army Capt.

** Bramwell Tillsley, General of The Salvation Army

** George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army ( b. 1872 )

** An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the centre of Coventry, England, killing 5 people.

** Lawrence Oates, English Army officer ( b. 1880 ).

** William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army ( b. 1829 )