On this day in History - Nov. 27

• 8 BC - Horace dies. Roman poet and satirist (b. 65 B.C.)
• 0399 - St. Anastius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
• 0511 - Clovis I dies. King of the Franks.
• 0835 - Muhammad at-Taqi dies (b. 0811). Shia Imam.
• 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
• 1127 - Emperor Xiaozong of China was born (d. 1194) .
• 1198 - Queen Constance of Sicily dies (b. 1154). Wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1199 - Guarda (Portugal) is founded by Foral of D. Sancho I.
• 1474 - Guillaume Dufay dies. Flemish composer.
• 1570 - Jacopo Sansovino dies (b. 1486). Italian sculptor and architect.
• 1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune was born (d. 1638). Japanese ruler of Satsuma.
• 1582 - Pierre Dupuy was born (d. 1651). French scholar.
• 1592 - Nakagawa Hidemasa dies (b.1568). Japanese samurai commander.
• 1592 - King John III of Sweden dies (b. 1537).
• 1630 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria was born (d. 1665).
• 1632 - John Eliot dies (b. 1592). English statesman.
• 1635 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon was born (d. 1719). Queen of Louis XIV of France
• 1652 - Cristóvão Ferreira dies. Portuguese jesuit.
• 1680 - Athanasius Kircher dies (b. 1601). German Jesuit scholar.
• 1701 - Anders Celsius was born (d. 1744). Swedish inventor (centigrade temp scale) and astronomer.
• 1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
• 1710 - Robert Lowth was born (d. 1787). British bishop.
• 1746 - Robert Livingston was born (d. 1813). American signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1754 - Abraham de Moivre was born (d. 1667). French mathematician.
• 1779 - The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania and the first legally recognized university in America.
• 1804 - Julius Benedict was born (d. 1885). German-born composer.
• 1807 - Departure of the Portuguese Real Family from Lisbon to Brazil (French Invasions)
• 1809 - Fanny Kemble was born (d. 1893). British actress.
• 1811 - Andrew Meikle dies (b. 1719). British mechanical engineer.
• 1817 - US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War .
• 1826 - António Augusto Soares de Passos was born. Portuguese ultra-romantic poet.
• 1839 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
• 1841 - Creation of the Real Conservatory of Musica of Rio De Janeiro (Brazil)
• 1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt was born (d. 1899). American businessman and philanthropist.
• 1852 - Ada Lovelace was born (d. 1815). British mathematician.
• 1857 - Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was born (d. 1952). 1932 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or 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 was born (d. 1896). Poet.
• 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 born Israeli statesman (1st President) and biological synthesis of acetone (Chemistry)
• 1874 - Charles A. Beard was born (d. 1948). American historian.
• 1894 - Konosuke Matsushita was born. Japanese industrialist.
• 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.
• 1895 - Alexandre Dumas fils dies (b. 1824). French writer and dramatist.
• 1901 - U.S. Army War College is established.
• 1901 - Ted Husing was born (d. 1962). American sportscaster.
• 1903 - Lars Onsager was born (d. 1976). Norwegian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1907 - L. Sprague de Camp was born (d. 2000). American writer.
• 1909 - James Agee was born (d. 1955). American writer.
• 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.
• 1911 - David Merrick was born (d. 2000). American stage producer.
• 1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
• 1916 - Chick Hearn was born (d. 2002). American sports announcer.
• 1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith was born (d. 1998). American television host.
• 1919 - Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1920 - Abe Lenstra was born (d. 1985). Dutch international footballer.
• 1921 - Alexander Dubček was born (d. 1992). Slovak politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
• 1924 - In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
• 1925 - John Maddox was born. British science writer and editor.
• 1925 - Ernie Wise was born (d. 1999). British comedian
• 1926 - Barbara Anderson was born. New Zealand author
• 1927 - Carlos José Castilho was born. Brazilian footballer
• 1928 - Alekos Alexandrakis was born (d. 2005). Greek actor.
• 1931 - Lya De Putti dies (b. 1899). Hungarian actress.
• 1932 - Evelyn Preer dies (b. 1896). American actress and singer.
• 1932 - Benigno Aquino Jr. was born (d. 1983). Philippine opposition leader.
• 1934 - Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
• 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 - Battle of Cape Spartivento: The Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean.
• 1940 - Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco CA (d. 1973). American actor and martial artist.
• 1941 - USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat (World War)
• 1941 - Eddie Rabbitt was born (d. 1998). American singer.
• 1941 - Aimé Jacquet was born. French international football manager
• 1942 - Henry Carr was born. American athlete.
• 1942 - Jimi Hendrix was born (d. 1970). American singer, guitarist and songwriter (Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze).
• 1943 - Edward O'Hare dies (b. 1914). American pilot.
• 1944 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam dies (b. 1879). Russian physicist.
• 1948 - James L. Avery, Sr. was born. American actor.
• 1951 - Jayne Kennedy was born. American sportscaster and actress.
• 1952 - James D. Wetherbee was born. American astronaut
• 1952 - Sheila Copps was born. Canadian politician
• 1953 - Eugene O'Neill dies in Boston (b. 1888). American playwright and dramatist.
• 1953 - Curtis Armstrong was born. American actor.
• 1954 - Patricia McPherson was born. American actress.
• 1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
• 1955 - Bill Nye was born. American engineer and broadcaster
• 1955 - Arthur Honegger dies (b. 1892). French-born Swiss composer.
• 1955 - Luís de Freitas Branco dies. Portuguese musicologist and composer.
• 1956 - William Fichtner was born. American actor.
• 1957 - Caroline Kennedy was born. American journalist
• 1957 - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru makes an impassioned speech for nuclear disarmament in New Delhi.
• 1958 - Mike Scioscia was born. American baseball manager.
• 1958 - Artur Rodzinski dies (b. 1892). Polish conductor.
• 1960 - Ken O'Brien was born. American football player
• 1960 - Felix Houphouët-Boigny elected as president of newly independent Côte d'Ivoire.
• 1962 - Charlie Benante was born. American musician.
• 1962 - Davey Boy Smith was born (d. 2002). British professional wrestler.
• 1963 - Fisher Stevens was born. American actor.
• 1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
• 1964 - Robin Givens was born. American actress.
• 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.
• 1966 - Andy Merrill was born. American voice actor.
• 1968 - Michael Vartan was born. French actor.
• 1969 - Kianna Dior was born. Canadian adult film star
• 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.
• 1971 - Nick Van Exel was born. American basketball player
• 1973 - Evan Karagias was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1973 - Twista (Carl Mitchell) was born. American rapper
• 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).
• 1973 - Frank Christian dies (b. 1887). American jazz trumpeter.
• 1975 - Ross McWhirter dies (b. 1925). British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records.
• 1975 - The BBC TV presenter and co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, Ross McWhirter is killed outside his home.
• 1975 - Martin Gramatica was born. American football player.
• 1976 - Jaleel White was born. American actor.
• 1978 - Jimmy Rollins was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 - The Streets (Mike Skinner) was born. British rapper and musician.
• 1978 - Harvey Milk dies assassinated (b. 1930). American politician.
• 1978 - George Moscone dies assassinated (b. 1929). Mayor of San Francisco
• 1979 - The Game (Jayceon Taylor) was born. American rapper.
• 1981 - Lotte Lenya dies (b. 1898). Austrian singer and actress.
• 1983 - A Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 183.
• 1983 - Teotônio Vilela dies (b. 1917). Brazilian politician.
• 1985 - Fernand Braudel dies. French historian.
• 1985 - Alison Pill was born. Canadian actress.
• 1986 - Steve Tracy dies (b. 3.Oct. 1952). American actor.
• 1987 - Canadian rock band Cowboy Junkies record their album The Trinity Sessions in one night using one microphone at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto.
• 1988 - John Carradine dies (b. 1906). American actor.
• 1990 - The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1990 - David White dies (b. 1916). American actor.
• 1991 - The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
• 1992 - Ivan Generalić dies (b. 1914). Croatian painter
• 1995 - Fernando Lopes Graça dies. Portuguese musicologist and composer.
• 1997 - 25 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.
• 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere was discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
• 2004 - Fernando Valle dies (b. 1900). Founder of Portuguese (Socialist Party) Partido Socialista
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