November 27
is the 331st day (332nd on
leap years) of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 34 days remaining.
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399 -
St. Anastius I becomes
Pope.
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1095 -
Pope Urban II declares the
First Crusade at the
Council of Clermont.
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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".
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1703 - The first
Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the
Great Storm of 1703.
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1839 - In
Boston, Massachusetts, the
American Statistical Association is founded.
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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.
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1868 -
Indian Wars:
Battle of Washita River -
United States Army Lieutenant Colonel
George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on
Cheyenne living on reservation land.
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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.
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1901 -
U.S. Army War College is established.
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1912 -
Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of
Morocco.
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1919 -
Haiti becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
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1924 - In
New York City the first
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
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1934 - Bank robber
Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the
FBI.
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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.
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1942 - World War II: At
Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
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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".
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1954 -
Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
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1963 - The
Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at
Strasbourg.
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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.
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1971 -
Mars 2 of the
Soviet space program landed on
Mars.
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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).
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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.
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1978 - In
San Francisco, California, city mayor
George Moscone and openly
gay city supervisor
Harvey Milk are
assassinated by former supervisor
Dan White.
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1983 - A Colombian
Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's
Barajas Airport, killing 183.
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1990 - The
British Conservative Party chooses
John Major to succeed
Margaret Thatcher as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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1991 - The
United Nations Security Council adopts
UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of
peacekeeping operations in
Yugoslavia.
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1992 - For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthow president
Carlos Andres Perez in
Venezuela.
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1997 - Twenty-five are killed in the second
Souhane massacre in
Algeria.
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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.
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2001 - A
hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the
extrasolar planet Osiris by the
Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
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2005 - The first partial human
face transplant is completed in
Amiens,
France.
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1127 -
Emperor Xiaozong of China (d.
1194)
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1576 -
Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (d.
1638)
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1582 -
Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d.
1651)
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1630 -
Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d.
1665)
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1635 -
Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, wife of
Louis XIV of France (d.
1719)
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1701 -
Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d.
1744)
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1710 -
Robert Lowth, British bishop (d.
1787)
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1746 -
Robert Livingston, American signatory of the Declaration of Independence (d.
1813)
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1779 -
Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d.
1865)
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1804 -
Julius Benedict, German-born composer (d.
1885)
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1809 -
Fanny Kemble, British actress (d.
1893)
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1843 -
Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (d.
1899)
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1857 -
Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist and
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1952)
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1867 -
Charles Koechlin, French composer (d.
1950)
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1871 -
Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d.
1950)
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1874 -
Charles A. Beard, American historian (d.
1948)
* 1874 -
Chaim Weizmann, first
President of Israel (d.
1952)
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1901 -
Ted Husing, American sportscaster (d.
1962)
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1903 -
Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist and
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1976)
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1907 -
L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d.
2000)
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1909 -
James Agee, American writer (d.
1955)
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1911 -
David Merrick, American stage producer (d.
2000)
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1916 -
Chick Hearn, American sports announcer (d.
2002)
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1917 -
Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d.
1998)
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1920 -
Abe Lenstra,
Dutch international footballer (d.
1985)
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1921 -
Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician (d.
1992)
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1925 -
John Maddox, British science writer and editor
* 1925 -
Ernie Wise, British comedian (d.
1999)
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1926 -
Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author
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1927 -
Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer [1987]
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1928 -
Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (d.
2005)
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1932 -
Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine politician (d.
1983)
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1937 -
Gail Sheehy, American writer
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1939 -
Dave Giusti, baseball player
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1940 -
Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d.
1973)
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1941 -
Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (d.
1998)
* 1941 -
Aimé Jacquet,
French international football manager
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1942 -
Henry Carr, American athlete
* 1942 -
Jimi Hendrix, American singer, guitarist and songwriter (d.
1970)
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1948 -
James L. Avery, Sr., American actor
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1950 -
Gran Hamada, Japanese professional wrestler
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1951 -
Jayne Kennedy, American sportscaster and actress
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1952 -
James D. Wetherbee, American astronaut
* 1952 -
Sheila Copps, Canadian politician
* 1952 -
Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (
Genesis)
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1953 -
Curtis Armstrong, American actor
* 1953 -
Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer and poet, leader of the band
Aquarium*
1954 -
Patricia McPherson, American actress
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1955 -
Bill Nye, American engineer and broadcaster
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1956 -
William Fichtner, American actor
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1957 -
Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racecar driver
* 1957 -
Caroline Kennedy, American journalist
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1958 -
Mike Scioscia, American baseball manager
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1960 -
Ken O'Brien, American football player
* 1960 -
Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian politician and Prime-Minister
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1962 -
Charlie Benante, American musician
* 1962 -
Davey Boy Smith (David Smith), British professional wrestler (d.
2002)
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1963 -
Fisher Stevens, American actor
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1964 -
Robin Givens, American actress
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1966 -
Andy Merrill, American voice actor
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1968 -
Michael Vartan, French actor
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1971 -
Nick Van Exel, American basketball player
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1973 -
Evan Karagias, American professional wrestler
* 1973 -
Twista (Carl Mitchell), American rapper
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1975 -
Martin Gramatica, American football player
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1976 -
Jaleel White, American actor
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1978 -
Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
* 1978 -
The Streets (Mike Skinner), British rapper and musician
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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
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1980 -
Michael Yardy, English cricketer
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1981 -
Matthew Taylor, English footballer
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1985 -
Alison Pill, Canadian actress
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8 BC -
Horace, Roman poet and satirist (b.
65 BC)
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511 -
Clovis I, King of the Franks
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835 -
Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b.
811)
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1198 - Queen
Constance of Sicily, wife of
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
1154)
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1474 -
Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer
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1570 -
Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b.
1486)
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1592 -
Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b.
1568)
* 1592 - King
John III of Sweden (b.
1537)
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1632 -
John Eliot, English statesman (b.
1592)
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1680 -
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b.
1601)
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1754 -
Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b.
1667)
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1811 -
Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b.
1719)
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1852 -
Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b.
1815)
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1895 -
Alexandre Dumas fils, French author (b.
1824)
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1908 -
Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b.
1827)
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1931 -
Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b.
1899)
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1932 -
Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b.
1896)
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1934 -
Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b.
1908)
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1940 -
Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (executed)
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1943 -
Edward O'Hare, American pilot (b.
1914)
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1944 -
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b.
1879)
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1953 -
Eugene O'Neill, American writer and
Nobel Prize laureate (b. *
1955 -
Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b.
1892)
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1958 -
Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (b.
1892)
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1973 -
Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b.
1887)
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1975 -
Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the
Guinness Book of Records (b.
1925)
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1978 -
Harvey Milk, American politician (assassinated) (b.
1930)
* 1978 -
George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (assassinated) (b.
1929)
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1980 -
F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect {b.
1882)
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1981 -
Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b.
1898)
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1988 -
John Carradine, American actor (b.
1906)
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1990 -
David White, American actor (b.
1916)
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1992 -
Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b.
1914)
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1994 -
Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b.
1906)
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1999 -
Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b.
1937)
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2005 -
Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b.
1919)
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