November 27
Template:Linked-title 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)
- 1754 - Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1794)
- 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)
- 1843 - Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
- 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)
- 1898 - Fredric Warburg, publisher and author (d. 1981)
- 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)
- 1909 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
- 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 [1987]
- 1928 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (d. 2005)
- 1932 - Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine politician (d. 1983)
- 1937 - Gail Sheehy, American writer
- 1939 - Dave Giusti, baseball player
- 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
- 1950 - Gran Hamada, Japanese professional wrestler
- 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, 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
- 1960 - Tim Pawlenty, American politician
- 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), 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 Rodziński, 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)
- 1994 - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
- 1999 - Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b. 1937)
- 2005 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
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