What happened on November 27? There are more than 256 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About November 27
November 27 is the 332nd day of the year 2024. There are 34 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday. This day falls under the 48th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Virginia, Minnesota 55792 sunrise will occur at 07:31 AM and sunset will occur at 04:24 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Sagittarius. The modern birthstone for this month is Topaz while the mystical birthstone is Pearl.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 63 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For November 27
- 176Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
- 395Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
- 1095Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
- 1295The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as “The Model Parliament”.
- 1703The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
- 1727The foundation stone to the Jerusalem’s Church in Berlin is laid.
- 1807The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.
- 1815Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
- 1830St. Catherine Laboure experiences a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.
- 1839In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
- 1856The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg’s unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
- 1863American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
- 1863American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
- 1868Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
- 1886German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for “Effi Briest”, a classic work of German literature.
- 1895At 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.
- 1901The U.S. Army War College is established.
- 1912Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
- 1924In New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
- 1934Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
- 1940In Romania, the ruling party Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania’s aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
- 1940World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1942World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
- 1944World War II: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
- 1954Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
- 1963The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
- 1963U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his first address to Congress as president following the assassination of John F. Kennedy five days prior.
- 1965Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
- 1971The Soviet space program’s Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
- 1973The 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).
- 1975The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
- 1978In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
- 1978The Kurdish party PKK is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.
- 1983Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid’s Barajas Airport, killing 181.
- 1984Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
- 1989Avianca Flight 203, a Boeing 727, explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel claimed responsibility for the attack.
- 1991The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
- 1992For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
- 1997Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
- 1999The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand’s history.
- 2001A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
- 2004Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- 2005The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
- 2006The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s motion to declare Quebec a nation within a unified Canada.
- 2009A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.
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Who Were Born On November 27?
- 1127Emperor Xiaozong of Song, Emperor of China (d. 1194)
- 1576Shimazu Tadatsune, Ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638)
- 1582Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
- 1630Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d. 1665)
- 1635Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
- 1701Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744)
- 1710Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787)
- 1746Increase Sumner, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1799)
- 1746Robert Livingston, negotiated the Louisiana Purchase from France (d. 1813)
- 1754Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)
- 1779Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865)
- 1804Julius Benedict, German-born composer (d. 1885)
- 1809Fanny Kemble, British actress (d. 1893)
- 1833Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897)
- 1843Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1899)
- 1843Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
- 1857Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1952)
- 1865Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene politician (d. 1917)
- 1867Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
- 1871Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
- 1874Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952)
- 1874Charles A. Beard, American historian (d. 1948)
- 1878Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (d. 1948)
- 1885Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian writer (d. 1944)
- 1887Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (d. 1946)
- 1894Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox saint (d. 1971)
- 1894Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
- 1897Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969)
- 1898Fredric Warburg, publisher and author (d. 1981)
- 1901Ted Husing, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
- 1903Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
- 1907Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet (d. 2003)
- 1907L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
- 1909Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
- 1909James Agee, American writer (d. 1955)
- 1911David Merrick, American stage producer (d. 2000)
- 1911Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist (d. 2011)
- 1916Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
- 1917Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)
- 1920Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (d. 1985)
- 1920Buster Merryfield, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1921Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician (d. 1992)
- 1925Ernie Wise, British comedian (d. 1999)
- 1925John Maddox, British science writer and editor (d. 2009)
- 1925Marshall Thompson, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1927Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer (d. 1987)
- 1928Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (d. 2005)
- 1928Ronald William “Josh” Kirby, British artist (d. 2001)
- 1930Joe DeNardo, Pittsburgh Meteorologist
- 1930Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (d. 2009)
- 1932Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine politician (d. 1983)
- 1933Jacques Godbout, French Canadian novelist, journalist and filmmaker
- 1934Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, producer and songwriter (d. 1975)
- 1934Ammo Baba, Iraqi-Assyrian footballer
- 1934Gilbert Strang, American mathematician
- 1935Daniel Charles, French philosopher and musicologist (d. 2008)
- 1935Les Blank, American documentary filmmaker
- 1937Gail Sheehy, American writer
- 1939Dave Giusti, American baseball player
- 1939Tony Green, British professional darts commentator
- 1940Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973)
- 1941Aimé Jacquet, French football manager
- 1941Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (d. 1998)
- 1941Louis van Dijk, Dutch pianist
- 1942Henry Carr, American athlete
- 1942Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
- 1943Nicole Brossard, French Canadian poet
- 1944Arthur “Neddy” Smith, Australian underworld figure
- 1945Alain de Cadenet, English racing driver and television personality
- 1945Barbara Anderson, American actress
- 1945Phil Bloom, Dutch artist, entertainer and actress
- 1947Don Adams, American basketball player
- 1947Neil Rosenshein, American tenor
- 1948James Avery, American actor
- 1949Masanori Sekiya, Japanese racing driver
- 1950Gran Hamada, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1951Jayne Kennedy, American sportscaster and actress
- 1951Kathryn Bigelow, American film director
- 1952Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis)
- 1952James D. Wetherbee, American astronaut
- 1952Sheila Copps, Canadian politician
- 1953Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer (Aquarium)
- 1953Curtis Armstrong, American actor
- 1954Arthur Smith, British comedian and writer
- 1954Kimmy Robertson, American actress
- 1954Patricia McPherson, American actress
- 1955Bill Nye (The science guy), American engineer and broadcaster
- 1955Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956William Fichtner, American actor
- 1957Caroline Kennedy, American journalist and attorney
- 1957Frank Boeijen, Dutch singer, songwriter and guitarist
- 1957Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racecar driver
- 1957Kevin O'Connell, American sound re-recording mixer
- 1958Mike Scioscia, American baseball player and manager
- 1959Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and keyboardist (Simple Minds)
- 1960Gianni Vernetti, Italian politician
- 1960Ken O'Brien, American football player
- 1960Kevin Henkes, American children’s book writer/illustrator
- 1960Michael Rispoli, American actor
- 1960Tim Pawlenty, American politician, 39th Governor of Minnesota
- 1960Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian prime minister
- 1961Steve Oedekerk, American film director, actor and comedian
- 1962Charlie Benante, American drummer (Anthrax)
- 1962Mike Bordin, American musician (Faith No More)
- 1963Fisher Stevens, American actor
- 1964Roberto Mancini, Italian football player and manager
- 1964Robin Givens, American actress
- 1966Andy Merrill, American voice actor
- 1967Edson Ribeiro, Brazilian musician
- 1967Shane Embury, British guitarist/bassist (Napalm Death)
- 1968Michael Vartan, French-born actor
- 1969Myles Kennedy, American musician
- 1970Brooke Langton, American actress
- 1970Erik Menendez, American convict
- 1970Patricia Zentilli, Canadian actress
- 1971Larry Allen, American football player
- 1971Nick Van Exel, American basketball player
- 1972Shane Salerno, American screenwriter
- 1973Evan Karagias, American professional wrestler
- 1973Samantha Harris, American model and host
- 1973Sharlto Copley, South African producer, actor and director
- 1973Twista, American rapper
- 1974Kirk Acevedo, American actor
- 1975Bad Azz, American rapper and actor
- 1975Martin Gramatica, Argentinian-American football player
- 1976Chad Kilger, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976Jaleel White, American actor
- 1976Jean Grae, South African–born rapper
- 1977Mika Tan, American pornographic actress
- 1978Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
- 1978Mike Skinner, English musician (The Streets)
- 1978Radek Štěpánek, Czech tennis player
- 1978Shy Love, American pornographic actress
- 1978Tim Yeung, American drummer (Vital Remains)
- 1979Danielle Foxxx, Brazilian pornographic actress
- 1979Hilary Hahn, American violinist
- 1979Shin Hyesung, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
- 1979Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
- 1980Michael Yardy, English cricketer
- 1981Bruno Alves, Portuguese footballer
- 1981Gary Lucy, English actor
- 1981Matthew Taylor, English footballer
- 1982David Bellion, French footballer
- 1983Professor Green, British Rapper
- 1984Domata Peko, American football player
- 1985Alison Pill, Canadian actress
- 1985Klara Ósk Elíasdóttir, Icelandic singer
- 1986Steven Silva, Filipino television actor
- 1986Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer
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Who Died On November 27?
- 8 BCHorace, Roman poet (b. 65 BC)
- 395Rufinus, Roman consul and praetorian prefect
- 450Galla Placidia, daughter of Theodosius I (b. 392)
- 511Clovis I, King of the Franks (b. c. 466)
- 602Maurice, Byzantine emperor, (b. 539) and his younger sons (executed)
- 835Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811)
- 1198Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
- 1474Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer
- 1570Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
- 1592Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
- 1632John Eliot, English statesman (b. 1592)
- 1680Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
- 1754Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
- 1811Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
- 1852Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
- 1894Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
- 1895Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)
- 1901Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
- 1908Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
- 1920Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher (b. 1853)
- 1921Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1854)
- 1931Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
- 1932Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
- 1934Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)
- 1936Basil Zaharoff, Greek financier and arms dealer (b. 1849)
- 1940Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (b. 1871)
- 1943Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan (b. 1916)
- 1944Leonid Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
- 1953Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
- 1955Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)
- 1958Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
- 1960Dirk Jan de Geer, Dutch nobleman, lawyer, conservative statesman and prime minister of the Netherlands (b. 1870)
- 1973Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
- 1975Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (assassinated) (b. 1925)
- 1978George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (assassinated) (b. 1929)
- 1978Harvey Milk, American politician, civil rights activist (assassinated) (b. 1930)
- 1980F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
- 1981Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
- 1983Kostas Mentis, Greek actor (b. 1913)
- 1987Sian Kingi, Australian murder victim (b. 1974)
- 1988Jan Hein Donner, a Dutch chess grandmaster (b. 1927)
- 1988John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
- 1990Basilis C. Xanthopoulos, Greek theoretical physicist (assassinated) (b. 1951)
- 1990David White, American actor (b. 1916)
- 1992Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
- 1994Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
- 1998Barbara Acklin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
- 1999Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925)
- 1999Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b. 1937)
- 2000Len Shackleton, English former footballer (b. 1922)
- 2005Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
- 2005Joe Jones, American R&B singer (b. 1926)
- 2006Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname ‘Fluff’(b. 1927)
- 2006Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
- 2006Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
- 2006Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
- 2007Bernie Banton, Australian asbestos campaigner (b. 1946)
- 2007Bill Willis, American football player (b. 1921)
- 2007Robert Cade, American doctor and inventor of Gatorade (b. 1927)
- 2007Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)
- 2008V. P. Singh, Indian Prime Minister (b. 1931)
- 2010Irvin Kershner, American director (b. 1923)
- 2011Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1969)
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