On May 27, 1860, Giuseppe Garibaldi began his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
In 1927 on this date in May, the Ford Motor Company ceased manufacture of the Ford Model T (pictured above), the last of this model coming off the line the day previous. Over 16 million Model T Fords had been sold; it was a world-transformative product. On the 27th, the company began to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
Exactly 70 years later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Paula Jones could pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he was in office.
In 2015 on the 27th of May, the commercial space company SpaceX was approved as a contractor to the U.S. military for satellite launches; SpaceX has since led the world in its use of
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Ford had a Model A produced in 1903 and 1904, and then a different Model A produced from 1927 through 1931.
Henry Ford clung to production of the Model T beyond the point at which the firm needed to introduce new models. When Edsel Ford presented a prototype of a variant of the Model T, redesigned to attract new customers, Henry literally tore it apart.