November 27Birthdays & History

On this day: November 27 in history

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1. 25Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.Asia
2. 176Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.Europe
3. 395Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.Europe
4. 511King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve.Europe
5. 602Byzantine Emperor Maurice is forced to watch as the usurper Phocas executes his five sons before Maurice is beheaded himself.Europe
6. 1095Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.Europe
7. 1382Al-Salih Hajji, the last Qalawunid sultan, is deposed by Barquq, ending the long Turkic Bahri Mamluk period in general and particularly the Qalawunid dynasty, and beginning the reign of the Circassian Burji Mamluk.Middle East
8. 1542Palace plot of Renyin year: A group of Ming dynasty palace women fail to murder the Jiajing Emperor, and are executed by slow-slicing.Asia
9. 1727The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.Middle EastEurope
10. 1755An earthquake in northern Morocco devastates the cities of Fes and Meknes.Africa
11. 1809The Berners Street hoax is perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London.Europe
12. 1815Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.Europe
13. 1830Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a Marian apparition.Europe
14. 1835James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.Europe
15. 1839In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.North America
16. 1856The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.Europe
17. 1863American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.North America
18. 1863American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.North America
19. 1868American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.North America
20. 1879War of the Pacific: Battle of Tarapacá: The confrontation between the Chilean Army and the Peruvian Army takes place in Tarapacá, the Peruvian victory is consummated with the death of the 2 generals and the capture the Chilean general in said place of battle, headed by the Peruvian victory of General Juan Buendía y Noregia.Latin America
21. 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.Europe
22. 1896Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.Europe
23. 1901The U.S. Army War College is established.North America
24. 1912Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.EuropeAfrica
25. 1917P. E. Svinhufvud becomes the chairman of his first senate, technically the first Prime Minister of Finland.Europe
26. 1918The Makhnovshchina is established.Europe
27. 1924In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.North America
28. 1940In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents.Europe
29. 1940World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.Europe
30. 1942World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.Europe
31. 1944World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.Europe
32. 1945CARE (then the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is founded to send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II.North AmericaEurope
33. 1954Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.North America
34. 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.AsiaNorth America
35. 1968Penny Ann Early becomes the first woman to play in a major professional men's basketball league, for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.North America
36. 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.Europe
37. 1973Twenty-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).North America
38. 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.Europe
39. 1978The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the Turkish village of Fis.Middle East
40. 1978In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.North America
41. 1983Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.Europe
42. 1984Under 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.Europe
43. 1985Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-61-B, with Rodolfo Neri Vela becoming the first Mexican astronaut.Latin America
44. 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.Latin America
45. 1992For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela.Latin America
46. 1997Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.Africa
47. 1999The 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.Oceania
48. 2001A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.World
49. 2004Blackwater 61 crash: A CASA C-212 Aviocar crashes into the Koh-i-Baba mountain range in Afghanistan, killing six.Asia
50. 2004Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.Europe
51. 2006The House of Commons of Canada approves a motion introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada.North America
52. 2008XL 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.Europe
53. 2009Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.Europe
54. 2015An 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.North America
55. 2020Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated near Tehran.Middle East
56. 2020Days after the announcement of its discovery, the Utah monolith is removed by recreationists.North America
57. 2024Syrian rebel groups led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham launch a ground offensive into Syria.Middle East

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