November 27......

November 27 is the 331st day of the year (332nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 399 - St. Anastius I becomes Pope.

● 1095 - In France, Pope Urban II solemnly proclaimed the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont. Urban's twin purpose was to relieve the pressure by the Seljuk Turks on the Eastern Roman Empire, and to secure free access to Jerusalem for Christian pilgrims.

● 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".

● 1684 - Japan's shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa was born.

● 1701 - Anders Celsius was born in Sweden. He was the inventor of the Celsius temperature scale. He had a very centigrade mind.

● 1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.

● 1755 - Land for the first Jewish settlement in America was purchased by Joseph Salvador, who bought 10,000 acres near Fort Ninety-Six, in the southern part of the Carolina Colony.

● 1779 - The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania. It was the first legally recognized university in America.

● 1832 - South Carolina Convention, outraged by President Jackson's "Tariff of Abominations," calls for armed resistance, if necessary, against the U.S. government.

● 1839 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

● 1841 - Birth of Jean Renaud. Anarcho-syndicalist, member of the Lyons revolutionary federation. Set off a bomb in 1882 at the restaurant Bellecour (l'Assommoir), then fled to Geneva while another anarchist, Antoine Cyvoct, was wrongly sentenced to death for the crime.

● 1862 - Birth of Adelaide Pollard, Presbyterian hymn writer. Plagued with frail health most of her life, she lived the life of a mystic. Of the several hymns she penned, "Have Thine Own Way, Lord" is still popular today.

● 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.

● 1874 - Chaim Weizmann, the Zionist leader and first president of the state of Israel, was born.

● 1889 - Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City.

● 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.

● 1900 - U.S. troops coax information from Filipino town president by forcing salt water down his throat from 100-gallon tank. Then they burned the town. I guess water boarding sounds mild in comparison.

● 1901 - The Army War College was established in Washington, DC.

● 1910 - New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.

● 1911 - First recorded incident in the U.S. of audience throwing vegetables at actors.

● 1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.

● 1915 - England - First convention of No-Conscription Fellowship.

● 1919 - Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

● 1920 - A day after Makhno's anarchist commanders are executed, Trotsky orders an attack on Makhno's headquarters. The Cheka simultaneously arrests members of the Nabat Confederation in Kharkov and raids anarchist clubs and organizations throughout Russia.
● 1924 - In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

● 1934 - Bank robber Lester M. Gillis, aka Baby Face Nelson dies when shot by FBI agents.

● 1935 - Labour Party of New Zealand forms government for first time.

● 1939 - The play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened in New York.

● 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.

● 1941 - U.S. officials warn that a Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, might be imminent. It is ignored or disregarded. Sound like anything from 2001?

● 1942 - Birth of Jimi Hendrix, Seattle.

● 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".

● 1950 - American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'What gets me into the Kingdom, from Christ's own statement, is not saying "Lord, Lord," but acting "Lord, Lord."'

● 1951 - Hosea Richardson became the first black horse racing jockey to be licensed in Florida.

● 1952 - Convicted "trunk murderess" Winnie Ruth Judd escapes Arizona State Insane Hospital for the sixth time.

● 1953 - Playwright Eugene O'Neill died at age 65.

● 1953 - English Christian apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Anxiety is not only a pain which we must ask God to assuage but also a weakness we must ask Him to pardon -- for He's told us to take no care for the morrow.'

● 1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.

● 1961 - RAF flies aid to flood-stricken Somalia; The Royal Air Force begins airlifts of supplies to the desperate flood victims in Somalia.

● 1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.

● 1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress.

● 1965 - Writer Ken Kesey's first acid test takes place.

● 1965 - "March on Washington for Peace in Vietnam" draws 15,000-30,000.

● 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.

● 1967 - De Gaulle says 'non' to Britain – again; The French President, Charles de Gaulle, says he will veto Britain's application to join the Common Market for a second time.

● 1968 - Warrant issued for arrest of Eldridge Cleaver. Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party, becomes a fugitive from justice as a parole violator when he fails to return to prison.

● 1969 - Seven hundred U.S. Army medics stationed in Pleiku stage a fast to protest the Vietnam War.

● 1970 - Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn writes he cannot go to Stockholm to receive Nobel Prize for fear of not being allowed to return home.

● 1970 - Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest. There is some confusion about this date since Western-centric thinking makes the date yesterday when the local date was today.

● 1970 - FBI head crackpot (as opposed to pot crackhead) J. Edgar Hoover warns of terrorist plot by Catholic priest Berrigan brothers and others.

● 1971 - Mars 2 of the Soviet space program landed on Mars.

● 1973 - The Twenty-fifth Amendment in action: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35). The nays had some foresight of the quid pro quo being established.

● 1975 - The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, BBC TV presenter and co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, 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.

● 1976 - Twenty thousand rally for peace in Northern Ireland, Trafalgar Square, London.

● 1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor, who had recently resigned and wanted his job back. White would later be convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter instead of murder using the infamous “Twinkie Defense.”

● 1979 - Trial of conscientious objector Jean Fabre results in his release from prison, France.

● 1980 - U.S. Justice Department moves to drop charges against former FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III for authorizing his agents to break into homes without search warrants. According to a Justice Department spokesperson, Gray was simply ahead of his time.
● 1980 - Dave Williams (Chicago Bears) became the first player in NFL history to return a kick for touchdown in overtime.

● 1981 - The British Phonographic Industry, with the endorsement of rock stars like Elton John, Gary Numan, Cliff Richard, 10cc, and the Boomtown Rats, places advertisements in the British press claiming that "Home taping is wiping out music." Lucky they hadn't heard of CD burners.

● 1983 - A Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 183.

● 1985 - The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consulting role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.

● 1985 - Kinnock moves against Militant; The Liverpool district Labour Party is suspended by its national leadership after allegations that the socialist group Militant Tendency is operating within it.

● 1987 - French hostages Jean-Louis Normandin and Roger Auque were set free by their pro-Iranian captors in West Beirut, Lebanon.

● 1988 - Activists paint anti-military graffiti on war planes due for delivery to Turkey. Woensdrecht, The Netherlands.

● 1989 - 107 people were killed when a bomb destroyed a Colombian jetliner minutes after the plane had taken off from Bogota's international airport. Police blamed the incident on drug traffickers.

● 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 unanimously adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.

● 1992 - Activists across the U.S. seize abandoned buildings in housing and homelessness protest.

● 1992 - In Venezuela, rebel forces tried but failed to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez for the second time in ten months.

● 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.

● 2000 - Red Crescent reports that a third of the 240 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the previous two months were under the age of 18.

● 2000 - Schoolboy Damilola Taylor dies in stabbing; The 10-year-old schoolboy dies after being stabbed in the leg by a gang of hooded attackers near his home.

● 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

● 2002 - U.N. specialists began a new round of weapons inspections in Iraq.

● 2003 - President George W. Bush flew to Iraq under extraordinary secrecy and security to spend Thanksgiving with U.S. troops.

● 2005 - Doctors in Amiens, France performed the world's first partial face transplant on a woman disfigured by a dog bite; Isabelle Dinoire received the lips, nose and chin of a brain-dead woman in a 15-hour operation.

BIRTHS

● 1127 - Emperor Xiaozong of China (d. 1194)

● 1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638)

● 1582 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)

● 1630 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d. 1665)

● 1635 - Françoise d'Aubigné, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)

● 1701 - Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer; Inventor of the Celsius thermometer scale (d. 1744)

● 1710 - Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787)

● 1746 - Robert Livingston, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1813)

● 1754 - Georg Forster, German scientist (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 and author (d. 1893)

● 1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman (d. 1899)

● 1843 - Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)

● 1857 - Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, 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, Zionist pioneer and 1st 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, 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 footballer (d. 1985)

● 1921 - Alexander Dubček, Czech communist leader; initiated reforms put down by Soviets in 1968

● 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., Phillipine opposition leader under Pres. Ferdinand Marcos (d. 1983)

● 1934 - Ammo Baba, Iraqi-Assyrian football player

● 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 football manager

● 1942 - Henry Carr, American athlete

● 1942 - Jimi Hendrix, legendary American guitarist (d. 1970)

● 1945 - Alain de Cadenet, SPEED Channel personality

● 1946 - Richard Codey, New Jersey State Senator; Acting Governor of New Jersey from Nov. 2004 to Jan. 2006

● 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 Aquarium

● 1954 - Patricia McPherson, American actress

● 1955 - Bill Nye, American engineer and broadcaster (“Bill Nye, the Science Guy”)

● 1956 - William Fichtner, American actor

● 1957 - Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racecar driver

● 1957 - Caroline Kennedy, American journalist, daughter of President John F. Kennedy

● 1958 - Mike Scioscia, American baseball manager

● 1959 - Charlie Burchill, Rock musician (Simple Minds)

● 1960 - Ken O'Brien, American football player

● 1960 - Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian Prime-Minister

● 1960 - Tim Pawlenty, Governor of Minnesota

● 1962 - Charlie Benante, American musician (Anthrax)

● 1962 - Davey Boy Smith, British professional wrestler (d. 2002)

● 1962 - Mike Bordin, Rock musician (Faith No More)

● 1963 - Fisher Stevens, American actor

● 1964 - Robin Givens, American actress

● 1966 - Andy Merrill, American voice actor

● 1968 - Michael Vartan, French born actor (''Alias'')

● 1970 - Skoob, Rapper (DAS EFX)

● 1971 - Nick Van Exel, American basketball player

● 1973 - Evan Karagias, American professional wrestler

● 1973 - Twista, American rapper

● 1975 - Martin Gramatica, American football player

● 1976 - Jaleel White, American actor

● 1978 - Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player

● 1978 - The Streets British rapper

● 1978 - Radek Štěpánek, Check Republic Tennis Player

● 1979 - Shin Hyesung, Korean vocalist Shinhwa

● 1979 - The Game, 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)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Commemoration of the Miraculous Medal
● St. James Intercisus
● St. Secundinus
● St. Acacius
● St. Acharius
● St. Apollinaris
● St. Basileus and Companions
● St. Bilhild
● St. Valerian
● St. Virgilius
● St. Seachnall
● St. Severinus
● St. Fergus
● St. Gallgo
● St. John Angeloptes
● St. Maximus of Reiz
● Bl. Alexius Nakamura
● Bl. Anthony Kimura
● Bl. Bartholomew Sheki
● Bl. John Ivanango & John Montajana
● Bl. Leo Nakanishi
● Bl. Romanus
● Bl. Matthias Kosaka & Matthias Nakano
● Bl. Michael Takeshita
● Bl. Thomas Kotenda and Companions

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 14 (Civil Date: November 27)
● Holy and All praised Apostle Philip
● St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica.
● St. Justinian the Emperor and his wife St. Theodora.
● St. Philip, abbot of Irap near Novgorod.
● New Martyr Panteleimon the youth of Asia Minor.
● New Martyr Constantine of Hydra (Mt. Athos.

● Burma : National Day

● Cuba : Martyrs' Day

● Israel : Weizmann Day

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Massachusetts : John F Kennedy Day (1963) ( Sunday )
● Bern Switzerland : Onion Market Day-autumn festival ( Monday )
● US : Thanksgiving ( Thursday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

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