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May 27, 2018

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 23, 2018, covering May 27, 2018.

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    Album cover for beerbongs & bentleys by Post Malone

    beerbongs & bentleys

    Post Malone

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    Album cover for Beautiful Trauma by P!nk

    Beautiful Trauma

    P!nk

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    Album cover for Die Lit by Playboi Carti

    Die Lit

    Playboi Carti

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    Album cover for Voicenotes by Charlie Puth

    Voicenotes

    Charlie Puth

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    Album cover for The Greatest Showman by Soundtrack

    The Greatest Showman

    Soundtrack

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Notable Deaths

Gardner Dozois

2018Gardner Dozois, American science fiction author and editor (born 1947)[†]

Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction (1986–2004), garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice. He was inducted to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.

Historical Events

2018 Maryland flood

2018Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.[†]

In the afternoon of May 27, 2018, after over 8 inches (20 cm) of rain in a span of two hours, the historic Main Street in Ellicott City, Maryland was flooded, just before the new flood emergency alert system was supposed to become operational. Flooding occurred throughout the Patapsco Valley, in the adjacent communities of Catonsville, Arbutus, and Elkridge, as well as the Jones Falls Valley in Baltimore.

Historical Context for May 27, 2018

In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]