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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

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Year Name
1746 Robert R. Livingston, American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary for Foreign Affairs (d. 1813)
1903 Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
1917 Buffalo Bob Smith, American actor and television host (d. 1998)
1964 Hisayuki Sasaki, Japanese golfer (d. 2013)
1956 John McCarthy, English journalist and author
1953 Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 Steve Bannon, American media executive and political figure
1986 Xavi Torres, Spanish footballer
1898 Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (d. 1981)
1923 J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician (d. 2011)
Famous People Deaths On November 27

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Date Name
1632 John Eliot, English politician (b. 1592)
1620 Francis, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin (b. 1577)
2002 Billie Bird, American actress (b. 1908)
450 Galla Placidia, Roman Empress (b. 392)
1997 Buck Leonard, American baseball player and educator (b. 1907)
1884 Fanny Elssler, Austrian ballerina (b. 1810)
1931 Lya De Putti, Slovak-American actress (b. 1899)
511 Clovis I, king of the Franks
1811 Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer, designed the threshing machine (b. 1719)
1819 Gustavus Conyngham, Irish-born American merchant sea captain, an officer in the Continental Navy and a privateer.