Historical Events on November 27, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on November 27th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated near Tehran. |
| 2020 | Days after the announcement of its discovery, the Utah monolith is removed by recreationists. |
| 2015 | An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shoots at least four police officers. One officer later dies. Two civilians are also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered. |
| 2009 | Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries. |
| 2008 | XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board. |
| 2006 | The House of Commons of Canada approves a motion introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada. |
| 2004 | Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church. |
| 2001 | A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. |
| 1999 | The centre-left 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. |
| 1997 | Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria. |
| 1992 | For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela. |
| 1989 | 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 Medellín Cartel will claim responsibility for the attack. |
| 1984 | Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agrees to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty. |
| 1983 | Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181. |
| 1978 | In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White. |
| 1978 | The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the Turkish village of Fis. |
| 1975 | 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. |
| 1973 | Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On December 6, the House will confirm him 387–35). |
| 1971 | 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. |
| 1968 | Penny Ann Early becomes the first woman to play major professional basketball for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars. |
| 1965 | 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. |
| 1954 | Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury. |
| 1945 | CARE (then the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is founded to send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II. |
| 1944 | World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people. |
| 1942 | World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands. |
| 1940 | In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents. |
| 1940 | World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea. |
| 1924 | In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. |
| 1918 | The Makhnovshchina is established. |
| 1917 | P. E. Svinhufvud becomes the chairman of his first senate, technically the first Prime Minister of Finland. |
| 1912 | Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco. |
| 1901 | The U.S. Army War College is established. |
| 1896 | Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed. |
| 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. |
| 1868 | American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land. |
| 1863 | American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South. |
| 1863 | American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee. |
| 1856 | The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution. |
| 1839 | In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded. |
| 1835 | James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England. |
| 1830 | Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a Marian apparition. |
| 1815 | Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland. |
| 1809 | The Berners Street hoax is perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London. |
| 1727 | The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid. |
| 1095 | Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont. |
| 602 | Byzantine Emperor Maurice is forced to watch as the usurper Phocas executes his five sons before Maurice is beheaded himself. |
| 511 | King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve. |
| 395 | Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas. |
| 176 | Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions. |
| 25 | Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han. |
Famous People Born on November 27
Here is a random list who born on November 27. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1980 | Jackie Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1809 | Fanny Kemble, English actress, playwright, and poet (d. 1893) |
| 1911 | Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and educator (d. 2011) |
| 1956 | John McCarthy, English journalist and author |
| 1746 | Increase Sumner, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1799) |
| 1955 | Bill Nye, American engineer, educator, and television host |
| 1947 | Neil Rosenshein, American tenor and actor |
| 1981 | Bruno Alves, Portuguese footballer |
| 1940 | Bruce Lee, American-Chinese actor, martial artist, and screenwriter (d. 1973) |
| 1833 | Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897) |
Famous People Deaths On November 27
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on November 27. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1958 | Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian politician, Head of State of Bulgaria (b. 1892) |
| 1754 | Abraham de Moivre, French-English mathematician and theorist (b. 1667) |
| 395 | Rufinus, Roman politician (b. 335) |
| 1895 | Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and playwright (b. 1824) |
| 2008 | V. P. Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of India (b. 1931) |
| 1474 | Guillaume Du Fay, French composer and music theorist (b. 1397) |
| 1990 | David White, American actor (b. 1916) |
| 1881 | Theobald Boehm, German flute player and composer (b. 1794) |
| 2012 | Mickey Baker, American guitarist (b. 1925) |
| 1592 | Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese commander (b. 1568) |
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