November 27

is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 34 days remaining.

Events

399 - St. Anastius I becomes Pope.
1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1295 - Lancashire Day - On this day in 1295 the first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
1839 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
1863 - American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio state prison and return safely to the South.
1868 - Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River - United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
1895 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
1901 - U.S. Army War College is established.
1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
1919 - Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1924 - In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1934 - Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
1940 - In Romania, General Ion Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
1940 - World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean.
1942 - World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
1946 - Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster".
1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
1965 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
1971 - Mars 2 of the Soviet space program landed on Mars.
1973 - The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
1975 - The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England and espoused his anti-Irish racist views.
1978 - In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
1983 - A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 183.
1990 - The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1991 - The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
1992 - For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
1997 - Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
1999 - The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minster in New Zealand's history.
2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.

Births

1127 - Emperor Xiaozong of China (d. 1194)
1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638)
1582 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
1630 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d. 1665)
1635 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
1701 - Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744)
1710 - Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787)
1746 - Robert Livingston, American signatory of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1813)
1779 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865)
1804 - Julius Benedict, German-born composer (d. 1885)
1809 - Fanny Kemble, British actress (d. 1893)
1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1899)
1857 - Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)
1867 - Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
1871 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
1874 - Charles A. Beard, American historian (d. 1948)
1874 - Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (d. 1952)
1901 - Ted Husing, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
1903 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
1907 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
1909 - James Agee, American writer (d. 1955)
1911 - David Merrick, American stage producer (d. 2000)
1916 - Chick Hearn, American sports announcer (d. 2002)
1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)
1920 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch international footballer (d. 1985)
1921 - Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician (d. 1992)
1925 - John Maddox, British science writer and editor
1925 - Ernie Wise, British comedian (d. 1999)
1926 - Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author
1927 - Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer ^*
1928 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (d. 2005)
1932 - Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine politician (d. 1983)
1937 - Gail Sheehy, American writer
1940 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973)
1941 - Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (d. 1998)
1941 - Aimé Jacquet, French international football manager
1942 - Henry Carr, American athlete
1942 - Jimi Hendrix, American singer, guitarist and songwriter (d. 1970)
1948 - James L. Avery, Sr., American actor
1951 - Jayne Kennedy, American sportscaster and actress
1952 - James D. Wetherbee, American astronaut
1952 - Sheila Copps, Canadian politician
1952 - Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis)
1953 - Curtis Armstrong, American actor
1953 - Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer and poet, leader of the band Aquarium
1954 - Patricia McPherson, American actress
1955 - Bill Nye, American engineer and broadcaster
1956 - William Fichtner, American actor
1957 - Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racecar driver
1957 - Caroline Kennedy, American journalist
1958 - Mike Scioscia, American baseball manager
1960 - Ken O'Brien, American football player
1960 - Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian politician and Prime-Minister
1962 - Charlie Benante, American musician
1962 - Davey Boy Smith (David Smith), British professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1963 - Fisher Stevens, American actor
1964 - Robin Givens, American actress
1966 - Andy Merrill, American voice actor
1968 - Michael Vartan, French actor
1971 - Nick Van Exel, American basketball player
1973 - Evan Karagias, American professional wrestler
1973 - Twista (Carl Mitchell), American rapper
1975 - Martin Gramatica, American football player
1976 - Jaleel White, American actor
1978 - Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
1978 - The Streets (Mike Skinner), British rapper and musician
1979 - Shin Hyesung, Lead vocal in the korean group Shinhwa
1979 - The Game (Jayceon Taylor), American rapper
1979 - Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
1979 - Hilary Hahn, American violinist
1980 - Michael Yardy, English cricketer
1981 - Matthew Taylor, English footballer
1985 - Alison Pill, Canadian actress

Deaths

8 BC - Horace, Roman poet and satirist (b. 65 BC)
511 - Clovis I, King of the Franks
835 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811)
1198 - Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
1474 - Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer
1570 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
1592 - Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
1592 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1632 - John Eliot, English statesman (b. 1592)
1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
1754 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
1811 - Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
1895 - Alexandre Dumas fils, French author (b. 1824)
1908 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
1931 - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
1932 - Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
1934 - Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)
1940 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (executed)
1943 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (b. 1914)
1944 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
1953 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. *1955 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)
1958 - Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
1973 - Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
1975 - Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
1978 - Harvey Milk, American politician (assassinated) (b. 1930)
1978 - George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (assassinated) (b. 1929)
1980 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect {b. 1882)
1981 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
1988 - John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
1990 - David White, American actor (b. 1916)
1992 - Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
2005 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)

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