On this day in History - Nov. 27

• 399 - St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
• 1701 - Anders Celsius ( Sweden), born , scientist, inventor (centigrade temp scale)
• 1779 - The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania and the first legally recognized university in America.
• 1807 - Departure of the Portuguese Real Family from Lisbon to Brazil (French Invasions)
• 1817 - US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War .
• 1841 - Creation of the Real Conservatory of Musica of Rio De Janeiro (Brazil)
• 1857 - Sir Charles Scott Sherrington 1932 Nobel Laureate in Medicine & Physiology; author of the classic "The Integrative Action of the Nervous System"; discoverer of Sherrington's Law; coiner of the terms "neuron" and "synapse.
• 1865 - José Asuncion Silva, born, poet (d. 1896)
• 1874 - Chaim Weizmann born Israeli statesman (1st President) and biological synthesis of acetone (Chemistry)
• 1895 - Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize; at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris he signs his last will and testament setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
• 1906 - Costa Rica adopted this flag.
• 1910 - The largest railway station in the world opened to traffic on this day. Pennsylvania Station, more fondly known as Penn Station, was one of the first grand buildings of the 20th century
• 1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
• 1932 - Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine opposition leader; assassinated.
• 1940 - Bruce Lee San Francisco CA, karate star/actor (Green Hornet) born
• 1941 - USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat (World War)
• 1942 - Jimi Hendrix rock guitarist (Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze).
• 1953 - Eugene O'Neill playwright, dies in Boston at 65.
• 1957 - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru makes an impassioned speech for nuclear disarmament in New Delhi.
• 1960 - Felix Houphouët-Boigny elected as president of newly independent Côte d'Ivoire.
• 1970 - Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
• 1971 - Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars.1975 - The BBC TV presenter and co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, Ross McWhirter is killed outside his home.
• 1983 - Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185
• 1991 - The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
• 1986 - Steve Tracy, actor died.
• 1988 - John Carradine, actor died .
• 1990 - Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher.