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27th of November 0176 EVENT Emperor Marcus Aurelius grant his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
27th of November 1095 EVENT Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
27th of November 1295 EVENT The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
27th of November 1703 EVENT The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
27th of November 1727 EVENT The foundation stone to the Jerusalem's Church in Berlin was laid.
27th of November 1815 EVENT Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
27th of November 1830 EVENT St. Catherine Laboure experienced a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.
27th of November 1839 EVENT In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
27th of November 1856 EVENT The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
27th of November 1863 EVENT American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
27th of November 1868 EVENT Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River : United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
27th of November 1886 EVENT German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for "Effi Briest", a classic work of German literature.
27th of November 1895 EVENT 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.
27th of November 1901 EVENT The U.S. Army War College is established.
27th of November 1912 EVENT Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
27th of November 1924 EVENT In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
27th of November 1934 EVENT Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
27th of November 1940 EVENT In 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.
27th of November 1940 EVENT World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
27th of November 1942 EVENT World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
27th of November 1944 EVENT World War II: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
27th of November 1954 EVENT Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
27th of November 1963 EVENT The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
27th of November 1964 EVENT 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".
27th of November 1965 EVENT Vietnam 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.
27th of November 1971 EVENT The 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.
27th of November 1973 EVENT 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).
27th of November 1975 EVENT The 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.
27th of November 1978 EVENT The Kurdish party PKK is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.
27th of November 1978 EVENT In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
27th of November 1983 EVENT Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.
27th of November 1984 EVENT Under 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.
27th of November 1989 EVENT Avianca Flight 203, a Boeing 727, explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellin Cartel claimed responsibility for the attack.
27th of November 1991 EVENT The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
27th of November 1992 EVENT For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
27th of November 1997 EVENT Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
27th of November 1999 EVENT The 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.
27th of November 2001 EVENT A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
27th of November 2004 EVENT Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
27th of November 2005 EVENT The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
27th of November 2006 EVENT The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Quebec a nation within a unified Canada.
27th of November 1127 BIRTHDAY Emperor Xiaozong of China (d. 1194)
27th of November 1576 BIRTHDAY Shimazu Tadatsune, Ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638)
27th of November 1582 BIRTHDAY Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
27th of November 1630 BIRTHDAY Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d. 1665)
27th of November 1635 BIRTHDAY Francoise d'Aubigne, marquise de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
27th of November 1701 BIRTHDAY Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744)
27th of November 1710 BIRTHDAY Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787)
27th of November 1746 BIRTHDAY Robert Livingston, negotiated the Louisiana Purchase from France (d. 1813)
27th of November 1746 BIRTHDAY Increase Sumner, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1799)
27th of November 1754 BIRTHDAY Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)
27th of November 1779 BIRTHDAY Aime, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865)
27th of November 1804 BIRTHDAY Julius Benedict, German-born composer (d. 1885)
27th of November 1809 BIRTHDAY Fanny Kemble, British actress (d. 1893)
27th of November 1833 BIRTHDAY Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897)
27th of November 1843 BIRTHDAY Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1899)
27th of November 1843 BIRTHDAY Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
27th of November 1857 BIRTHDAY Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1952)
27th of November 1865 BIRTHDAY Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene politician (d. 1917)
27th of November 1867 BIRTHDAY Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
27th of November 1871 BIRTHDAY Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
27th of November 1874 BIRTHDAY Charles A. Beard, American historian (d. 1948)
27th of November 1874 BIRTHDAY Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952)
27th of November 1878 BIRTHDAY Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (d. 1948)
27th of November 1885 BIRTHDAY Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian writer (d. 1944)
27th of November 1887 BIRTHDAY Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (d. 1946)
27th of November 1894 BIRTHDAY Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
27th of November 1894 BIRTHDAY Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox saint (d. 1971)
27th of November 1897 BIRTHDAY Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969)
27th of November 1898 BIRTHDAY Fredric Warburg, publisher and author (d. 1981)
27th of November 1901 BIRTHDAY Ted Husing, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
27th of November 1903 BIRTHDAY Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
27th of November 1907 BIRTHDAY L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
27th of November 1907 BIRTHDAY Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet (d. 2003)
27th of November 1909 BIRTHDAY James Agee, American writer (d. 1955)
27th of November 1909 BIRTHDAY Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
27th of November 1911 BIRTHDAY David Merrick, American stage producer (d. 2000)
27th of November 1911 BIRTHDAY Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist
27th of November 1916 BIRTHDAY Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
27th of November 1917 BIRTHDAY Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)
27th of November 1920 BIRTHDAY Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (d. 1985)
27th of November 1920 BIRTHDAY Buster Merryfield, English actor (d. 1999)
27th of November 1921 BIRTHDAY Alexander Dubcek, Slovak politician (d. 1992)
27th of November 1925 BIRTHDAY John Maddox, British science writer and editor (d. 2009)
27th of November 1925 BIRTHDAY Ernie Wise, British comedian (d. 1999)
27th of November 1925 BIRTHDAY Marshall Thompson, American actor (d. 1992)
27th of November 1927 BIRTHDAY Carlos Jose Castilho, Brazilian footballer (d. 1987)
27th of November 1928 BIRTHDAY Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (d. 2005)
27th of November 1928 BIRTHDAY Ronald William "Josh" Kirby, British artist (d. 2001)
27th of November 1930 BIRTHDAY Joe DeNardo, Pittsburgh Meteorologist
27th of November 1930 BIRTHDAY Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (d. 2009)
27th of November 1932 BIRTHDAY Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine politician (d. 1983)
27th of November 1933 BIRTHDAY Jacques Godbout, French Canadian novelist, journalist and filmmaker
27th of November 1934 BIRTHDAY Ammo Baba, Iraqi-Assyrian footballer
27th of November 1934 BIRTHDAY Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, producer and songwriter (d. 1975)
27th of November 1935 BIRTHDAY Les Blank, American documentary filmmaker
27th of November 1937 BIRTHDAY Gail Sheehy, American writer
27th of November 1939 BIRTHDAY Dave Giusti, American baseball player
27th of November 1939 BIRTHDAY Tony Green, British professional darts commentator
27th of November 1940 BIRTHDAY Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973)
27th of November 1941 BIRTHDAY Aime Jacquet, French football manager
27th of November 1941 BIRTHDAY Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (d. 1998)
27th of November 1942 BIRTHDAY Henry Carr, American athlete
27th of November 1942 BIRTHDAY Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
27th of November 1943 BIRTHDAY Nicole Brossard, French Canadian poet
27th of November 1944 BIRTHDAY Arthur "Neddy" Smith, Australian underworld figure
27th of November 1945 BIRTHDAY Barbara Anderson, American actress
27th of November 1945 BIRTHDAY Alain de Cadenet, Speed Channel personality
27th of November 1948 BIRTHDAY James Avery, American actor
27th of November 1949 BIRTHDAY Masanori Sekiya, Japanese racing driver
27th of November 1950 BIRTHDAY Gran Hamada, Japanese professional wrestler
27th of November 1951 BIRTHDAY Jayne Kennedy, American sportscaster and actress
27th of November 1951 BIRTHDAY Kathryn Bigelow, American film director
27th of November 1952 BIRTHDAY Sheila Copps, Canadian politician
27th of November 1952 BIRTHDAY James D. Wetherbee, American astronaut
27th of November 1952 BIRTHDAY Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis)
27th of November 1953 BIRTHDAY Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer (Aquarium)
27th of November 1953 BIRTHDAY Curtis Armstrong, American actor
27th of November 1954 BIRTHDAY Patricia McPherson, American actress
27th of November 1954 BIRTHDAY Kimmy Robertson, American actress
27th of November 1955 BIRTHDAY Bill Nye (The science guy), American engineer and broadcaster
27th of November 1955 BIRTHDAY Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
27th of November 1956 BIRTHDAY William Fichtner, American actor
27th of November 1957 BIRTHDAY Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racecar driver
27th of November 1957 BIRTHDAY Caroline Kennedy, American journalist and attorney
27th of November 1957 BIRTHDAY Kevin O'Connell, American sound re-recording mixer
27th of November 1958 BIRTHDAY Mike Scioscia, American baseball player and manager
27th of November 1959 BIRTHDAY Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and keyboardist (Simple Minds)
27th of November 1960 BIRTHDAY Kevin Henkes, American children's book writer/illustrator
27th of November 1960 BIRTHDAY Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian prime minister
27th of November 1960 BIRTHDAY Tim Pawlenty, American politician, 39th Governor of Minnesota
27th of November 1960 BIRTHDAY Ken O'Brien, American football player
27th of November 1960 BIRTHDAY Gianni Vernetti, Italian politician
27th of November 1961 BIRTHDAY Steve Oedekerk, American film director, actor and comedian
27th of November 1962 BIRTHDAY Charlie Benante, American drummer (Anthrax)
27th of November 1962 BIRTHDAY Mike Bordin, American musician (Faith No More)
27th of November 1963 BIRTHDAY Fisher Stevens, American actor
27th of November 1964 BIRTHDAY Roberto Mancini, Italian football player and manager
27th of November 1964 BIRTHDAY Robin Givens, American actress
27th of November 1966 BIRTHDAY Andy Merrill, American voice actor
27th of November 1967 BIRTHDAY Shane Embury, British guitarist/bassist (Napalm Death)
27th of November 1967 BIRTHDAY Edson Ribeiro, Brazilian musician
27th of November 1968 BIRTHDAY Michael Vartan, French-born actor
27th of November 1969 BIRTHDAY Myles Kennedy, American musician
27th of November 1970 BIRTHDAY Patricia Zentilli, Canadian actress
27th of November 1970 BIRTHDAY Brooke Langton, American actress
27th of November 1970 BIRTHDAY Erik Menendez, American convict
27th of November 1971 BIRTHDAY Larry Allen, American football player
27th of November 1971 BIRTHDAY Nick Van Exel, American basketball player
27th of November 1972 BIRTHDAY Shane Salerno, American screenwriter
27th of November 1973 BIRTHDAY Evan Karagias, American professional wrestler
27th of November 1973 BIRTHDAY Sharlto Copley, South African producer, actor and director
27th of November 1973 BIRTHDAY Twista, American rapper
27th of November 1973 BIRTHDAY Samantha Harris, American model and host
27th of November 1974 BIRTHDAY Kirk Acevedo, American actor
27th of November 1975 BIRTHDAY Martin Gramatica, Argentinian-American football player
27th of November 1976 BIRTHDAY Jean Grae, South African : born rapper
27th of November 1976 BIRTHDAY Jaleel White, American actor
27th of November 1976 BIRTHDAY Chad Kilger, Canadian ice hockey player
27th of November 1977 BIRTHDAY Mika Tan, American pornographic actress
27th of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Shy Love, American pornographic actress
27th of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Radek Stepanek, Czech tennis player
27th of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
27th of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Mike Skinner, English musician (The Streets)
27th of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Tim Yeung, American drummer (Vital Remains)
27th of November 1979 BIRTHDAY Ricky Carmichael, American motocross racer
27th of November 1979 BIRTHDAY Danielle Foxxx, Brazilian pornographic actress
27th of November 1979 BIRTHDAY Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
27th of November 1979 BIRTHDAY Shin Hyesung, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
27th of November 1979 BIRTHDAY Hilary Hahn, American violinist
27th of November 1980 BIRTHDAY Michael Yardy, English cricketer
27th of November 1981 BIRTHDAY Gary Lucy, English actor
27th of November 1981 BIRTHDAY Matthew Taylor, English footballer
27th of November 1982 BIRTHDAY David Bellion, French footballer
27th of November 1984 BIRTHDAY Domata Peko, American football player
27th of November 1985 BIRTHDAY Klara Osk Eliasdottir, Icelandic singer
27th of November 1985 BIRTHDAY Alison Pill, Canadian actress
27th of November 1986 BIRTHDAY Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer
27th of November 1986 BIRTHDAY Steven Silva, Filipino television actor
27th of November 1991 BIRTHDAY Nur Atikah Nabilah, Singaporean gymnast
27th of November 0450 DEATH Galla Placidia, daughter of Roman Emperor Theodosius I and his second wife Galla (Born 392)
27th of November 0511 DEATH Clovis I, King of the Franks (Born c. 466)
27th of November 0602 DEATH Maurice, Byzantine emperor, (Born 539) and his younger sons (executed)
27th of November 0835 DEATH Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (Born 811)
27th of November 1198 DEATH Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1154)
27th of November 1474 DEATH Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer
27th of November 1570 DEATH Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (Born 1486)
27th of November 1592 DEATH Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (Born 1568)
27th of November 1592 DEATH King John III of Sweden (Born 1537)
27th of November 1632 DEATH John Eliot, English statesman (Born 1592)
27th of November 1680 DEATH Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (Born 1601)
27th of November 1754 DEATH Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (Born 1667)
27th of November 1811 DEATH Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (Born 1719)
27th of November 1852 DEATH Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (Born 1815)
27th of November 1884 DEATH Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (Born 1818)
27th of November 1894 DEATH Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (Born 1824)
27th of November 1895 DEATH Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (Born 1824)
27th of November 1901 DEATH Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (Born 1831)
27th of November 1908 DEATH Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (Born 1827)
27th of November 1920 DEATH Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher (Born 1853)
27th of November 1921 DEATH Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (Born 1854)
27th of November 1931 DEATH Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (Born 1899)
27th of November 1932 DEATH Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (Born 1896)
27th of November 1934 DEATH Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (Born 1908)
27th of November 1940 DEATH Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (Born 1871)
27th of November 1943 DEATH Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan (Born 1916)
27th of November 1944 DEATH Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (Born 1879)
27th of November 1953 DEATH Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1888)
27th of November 1955 DEATH Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (Born 1892)
27th of November 1958 DEATH Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor (Born 1892)
27th of November 1973 DEATH Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (Born 1887)
27th of November 1975 DEATH Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (assassinated) (Born 1925)
27th of November 1978 DEATH George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (assassinated) (Born 1929)
27th of November 1978 DEATH Harvey Milk, American politician (assassinated) (Born 1930)
27th of November 1980 DEATH F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (Born 1882)
27th of November 1981 DEATH Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (Born 1898)
27th of November 1987 DEATH Sian Kingi, Australian murder victim (Born 1974)
27th of November 1988 DEATH John Carradine, American actor (Born 1906)
27th of November 1990 DEATH David White, American actor (Born 1916)
27th of November 1992 DEATH Ivan Generalic, Croatian painter (Born 1914)
27th of November 1994 DEATH Fernando Lopes-Graca, Portuguese composer and musicologist (Born 1906)
27th of November 1998 DEATH Barbara Acklin, American singer and songwriter (Born 1943)
27th of November 1999 DEATH Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (Born 1937)
27th of November 1999 DEATH Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (Born 1925)
27th of November 2000 DEATH Len Shackleton, English former footballer (Born 1922)
27th of November 2005 DEATH Jocelyn Brando, American actress (Born 1919)
27th of November 2005 DEATH Joe Jones, American R&B singer (Born 1926)
27th of November 2006 DEATH Don Butterfield, American tuba player (Born 1923)
27th of November 2006 DEATH Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (Born 1950)
27th of November 2006 DEATH Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (Born 1927)
27th of November 2006 DEATH Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (Born 1951)
27th of November 2007 DEATH Robert Cade, American doctor and inventor of Gatorade (Born 1927)
27th of November 2007 DEATH Bernie Banton, Australian asbestos campaigner (Born 1946)
27th of November 2007 DEATH Sean Taylor, American football player (Born 1983)
27th of November 2007 DEATH Bill Willis, American football player (Born 1921)
27th of November 2008 DEATH V. P. Singh, Indian Prime Minister (Born 1931)
27th of November 2010 DEATH Irvin Kershner, American director (Born 1923)