November 27
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November 27 is the 331st day of the year (332nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events[change]
- 1815 – Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
- 1886 – German judge Emil Hartwich suffers fatal injuries in a duel. The incident becomes the background for Theodor Fontane's novel Effi Briest.
- 1895 – Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, leading to the establishment of the Nobel Prizes.
- 1912 – Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
- 1924 – In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
- 1957 – 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.
- 1973 – 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 – Guinness Book of World Records co-founder Ross McWhirter is shot dead by members of the Provisional IRA.
- 1978 – The Mayor of San Francisco George Moscone and his supervisor Harvey Milk are killed by former supervisor Dan White.
- 1978 – The Kurdish Party PKK is founded in Riha (Urfa), Turkey.
- 1983 – Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 747, crashes near Madrid Barajas Airport, killing 181 people.
- 1989 – Avianca Flight 203, a Boeing 727, explodes over Colombia, killing all 107 on board and 3 people on the ground. The Medellin drug Cartel claims responsibility.
- 1990 – The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1990 – Appenzell Innerrhoden becomes the last Canton in Switzerland to give women the right to vote.
- 1991 – The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
- 1999 – Helen Clark becomes the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
- 2005 – The first partial human face transplant is successfully completed in Amiens, France.
- 2006 – The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Quebec a nation within a unified Canada.
- 2009 – A passenger train is derailed by a bomb between Moscow and St. Petersburg, killing 28 people.
Births[change]
- 1127 – Emperor Xiaozong of Song, Emperor of China (d. 1194)
- 1582 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
- 1684 – Tokugawa Yoshimune, 8th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate (d. 1781)
- 1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, creator of the Celsius temperature scale (d. 1744)
- 1715 – Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, German physician and theologian (d. 1794)
- 1746 – Robert Livingston, American politician and businessman (d. 1813)
- 1754 – Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)
- 1831 – Gustav Radde, German geographer and naturalist (d. 1903)
- 1843 – Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
- 1857 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (d. 1952)
- 1867 – Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
- 1870 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 7th President of Finland (d. 1956)
- 1874 – Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (d. 1952)
- 1876 – Viktor Kaplan, Austrian engineer (d. 1934)
- 1894 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
- 1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist (d. 1976)
- 1920 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (d. 1985)
- 1920 – Buster Merryfield, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1921 – Alexander Dubcek, Czechoslovakian politician (d. 1992)
- 1923 – Juvenal Amarijo, Brazilian footballer (d. 2009)
- 1925 – Ernie Wise, English comedian (d. 1999)
- 1932 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician (d. 1983)
- 1939 – Laurent Desire Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2001)
- 1940 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American actor and martial arts expert (d. 1973)
- 1941 – Aime Jacquet, French footballer and coach
- 1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
- 1951 – Kathryn Bigelow, American movie director
- 1952 – Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis)
- 1955 – Bill Nye, American engineer and broadcaster
- 1956 – Lionello Manfredoni, Italian footballer
- 1956 – William Fichtner, American actor
- 1957 – Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy
- 1959 – Charlie Burchill, Scottish musician (Simple Minds)
- 1960 – Eike Immel, German footballer
- 1960 – Tim Pawlenty, American politician
- 1960 – Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian politician
- 1961 – Samantha Bond, British actress
- 1964 – Roberto Mancini, Italian footballer and coach
- 1966 – Andy Merrill, American voice actor
- 1973 – Vratislav Lokvenc, Czech footballer
- 1976 – Jaleel White, American actor
- 1978 – Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
- 1978 – The Streets, English rapper
- 1978 – Radek Stepanek, Czech footballer
- 1979 – Hilary Hahn, American violinist
- 1979 – Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
- 1981 – Matthew Taylor, English footballer
- 1983 – Professor Green, English rapper
- 1990 – Josh Dubovie, English singer
Deaths[change]
- 8 BC – Horace, Roman Emperor (b. 65 BC)
- 511 – Clovis I, King of the Franks (c. 466)
- 1474 – Guillaume Dufay, French-Flemish composer (b. 1397)
- 1592 – King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
- 1664 – Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter (b. 1564)
- 1680 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
- 1852 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (b. 1815)
- 1894 – Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
- 1895 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (b. 1824)
- 1936 – Basil Zaharoff, Greek arms dealer (b. 1849)
- 1953 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer (b. 1888)
- 1955 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)
- 1967 – Leon Mba, President of Gabon (b. 1902)
- 1975 – Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records (b. 1925)
- 1978 – Harvey Milk, American politician (b. 1930)
- 1978 – George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1929)
- 1981 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
- 1988 – Angela Aames, American actress (b. 1956)
- 1988 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
- 2000 – Len Shackleton, English footballer (b. 1922)
- 2005 – Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Alan Freeman, English disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
- 2008 – V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister of India (b. 1931)
- 2010 – Irvin Kershner, American director (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1969)
- 2011 – Ken Russell, English movie director (b. 1927)
