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.
• 1295 - Lancashire Day - The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
• 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).
• 1614 - D. Fernando de Meneses was born. Portuguese nobleman (2nd. Conde da Ericeira).
• 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 - Georg Forster was born (d. 1794). German scientist.
• 1754 - Abraham de Moivre dies (b. 1667). French mathematician.
• 1779 - The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania and the first legally recognized university in America.
• 1779 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre was born (d. 1865). French general.
• 1786 - Robert Burns postpones emigration to Jamaica.
• 1804 - Julius Benedict was born (d. 1885). German-born composer.
• 1807 - Departure of the Portuguese Real Family from Lisbon to Brazil to escape from Napoleonic troops (French Invasions).
• 1809 - Fanny Kemble was born (d. 1893). British actress.
• 1811 - Andrew Meikle dies (b. 1719). British mechanical engineer.
• 1815 - Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
• 1817 - US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War .
• 1826 - António Augusto Soares dos Passos was born (d. 8 Nov 1860). Portuguese ultra-romantic poet.
• 1831 - Ana Plácido was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1833 - Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge was born (d. 1897).
• 1838 - Joaquim José da França Junior dies in Poço de Caldas, MG (b. in Rio 19 Apr 1838). Brazilian journalist and writer.
• 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.
• 1843 - Elizabeth Stride was born (d. 1888). Victim of Jack the Ripper.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1865 - José Asunción Silva was born (d. 1896). Colombian poet.
• 1867 - Charles Koechlin was born (d. 1950). French composer.
• 1868 - Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River - United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
• 1871 - Giovanni Giorgi was born (d. 1950). Italian physicist.
• 1874 - Chaim Weizmann was born (d. 1952). Israeli statesman (1st President) and biological synthesis of acetone (Chemistry).
• 1874 - Charles A. Beard was born (d. 1948). American historian.
• 1887 - Foundation of Quilmes Atlético Club (Argentina).
• 1888 - António Maria Gomes Machado Fogaça dies in Coimbra (b. 11 Apr 1863). Portuguese poet (Versos da Mocidade, 1887) Ler: Os Rouxinóis.
  
• 1894 - Saint Amphilochios of Pochayiv was born (d. 1971). Ukrainian Orthodox Saint.
• 1894 - Konosuke Matsushita was born (d. 1989). 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.
• 1897 - Vito Genovese was born (d. 1969). American mafioso.
• 1898 - Fredric Warburg was born (d. 1981). Publisher and author.
• 1901 - U.S. Army War College is established.
• 1901 - Ted Husing was born (d. 1962). American sportscaster.
• 1901 - Clement Studebaker dies (b. 1831). American automobile manufacturer.
• 1903 - Lars Onsager was born (d. 1976). Norwegian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1906 - Costa Rica adopts its flag.
• 1907 - L. Sprague de Camp was born (d. 2000). American writer.
• 1908 - Jean Albert Gaudry dies (b. 1827). French geologist.
• 1909 - James Agee was born (d. 1955). American writer.
• 1909 - Anatoly Maltsev was born (d. 1967). Russian mathematician.
• 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.
• 1912 - Albanian National Flag adopted.
• 1915 - Adonias Aguiar Filho was born in Ilhéus, Baía. Brazilian writer, journalist and essayst.
• 1916 - Chick Hearn was born (d. 2002). American sports announcer.
• 1916 - Émile Verhaeren dies (b. 1855). Belgium poet.
• 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 football player.
• 1920 - Buster Merryfield was born (d. 1999). English actor.
• 1921 - Alexander Dubcek 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.
• 1925 - Marshall Thompson was born (d. 1992). American film and television actor.
• 1926 - Barbara Anderson was born. New Zealand author.
• 1927 - Carlos José Castilho was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1928 - Alekos Alexandrakis was born (d. 2005). Greek actor.
• 1928 - Ronald William "Josh" Kirby was born (d. 2001). British artist.
• 1930 - Joe DeNardo was born. Pittsburgh Meteorologist.
• 1931 - Vicente Sales was born in Vila de Caripi, Iagarapé-Açú, PA. Brazilian cronist and popular poet.
• 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. assassinated 1983). Philippine opposition leader.
• 1933 - Jacques Godbout was born. French Canadian novelist, journalist and filmmaker.
• 1934 - Ammo Baba was born. Iraqi-Assyrian football player.
• 1934 - Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI. American gangster.
• 1935 - Al Jackson was born (d. 1975). American drummer, producer and songwriter.
• 1935 - Les Blank was born. American documentary filmmaker.
• 1937 - Gail Sheehy was born. American writer.
• 1939 - Dave Giusti was born. American baseball player.
• 1939 - Laurent-Desiré Kabila was born (d. assassinated in 2001). President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  
• 1939 - Pedro Ferreira was born in Abrigada, Alenquer. Portuguese actor and theatre playwright.
• 1939 - Virgília Peixoto was born in Recife, PE. Brazilian folklorist.
• 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.
• 1940 - Nicolae Iorga dies executed. Romanian writer and politician.
• 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).
• 1942 - Manolo Blahnik was born. Spanish shoe designer.
• 1942 - World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
• 1943 - Nicole Brossard was born. French Canadian poet.
• 1943 - Edward O'Hare dies (b. 1914). American pilot.
• 1943 - Adolfo Lima dies (b. Lisboa, 28 May 1874). Portuguese pedagogue.
• 1944 - World War II: An explosion at a RAF ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
• 1944 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam dies (b. 1879). Russian physicist.
• 1945 - Norway joins to United Nations.
• 1945 - Alain de Cadenet ws born. SPEED Channel personality.
• 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".
• 1948 - James L. Avery, Sr. was born. American actor.
• 1949 - Masanori Sekiya was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1950 - Gran Hamada was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1951 - Jayne Kennedy was born. American sportscaster and actress.
• 1951 - Vera Fischer was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1952 - Daryl Stuermer was born. American guitarist (Genesis).
• 1952 - James D. Wetherbee was born. American astronaut.
• 1952 - Kathryn Bigelow was born. American fil director.
• 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.
• 1953 - Boris Grebenshchikov was born. Russian singer Aquarium.
• 1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
• 1954 - Kimmy Robertson, American actress best known for her role as Lucy Moran in the TV series Twin Peaks.
  
• 1954 - Patricia McPherson was born. American actress.
• 1955 - Bill Nye was born. American engineer and broadcaster.
• 1955 - Pierre Mondou was born. National Hockey League player.
• 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 - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru makes an impassioned speech for nuclear disarmament in New Delhi.
• 1957 - Al Fabro was born. Canadian Businessman.
• 1957 - Caroline Kennedy was born. American journalist.
• 1957 - Kenny Acheson ws born. Northern Irish racecar driver.
  
• 1957 - Kevin O'Connell was born. American sound re-recording mixer.
• 1958 - Mike Scioscia was born. American baseball manager.
• 1958 - Artur Rodzinski dies (b. 1892). Polish conductor.
• 1959 - Charlie Burchill was born. Scottish guitarist and keyboardist (Simple Minds).
• 1960 - Gordie Howe was the first player to reach the NHL landmark of 1000 points.
• 1960 - Ken O'Brien was born. American football player.
• 1960 - Kevin Henkes was born. American children's book writer/illustrator.
• 1960 - Tim Pawlenty was born. American politician, 39th Governor of Minnesota.
• 1960 - Yulia Tymoshenko was born. Ukrainian Prime-Minister.
• 1960 - Felix Houphouët-Boigny elected as president of newly independent Côte d'Ivoire.
• 1961 - Steve Oedekerk was born. American film director, actor and comedian.
• 1962 - Davey Boy Smith was born (d. 2002). British professional wrestler.
• 1962 - Charlie Benante was born. American drummer (Anthrax).
• 1962 - Mike Bordin was born. American musician (Faith No More).
• 1962 - Mário Faustino dies in an aviation crash near Lima, Peru (b. 22 Oct 1930 in Teresina, Piauí). Brazilian poet.
• 1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
• 1963 - Fisher Stevens was born. American actor.
• 1964 - 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".
• 1964 - Robin Givens was born. American actress.
• 1964 - Roberto Mancini was born. Italian football player.
• 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.
• 1967 - Shane Embury was born. British guitarist/bassist (Napalm Death, among others).
• 1967 - Robin Givens was born. American actress.
• 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.
• 1970 - Patricia Zentilli was born. Canadian actress.
• 1971 - The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctioned and crashed, but it's the first manmade object to reach the surface of Mars.
• 1971 - Larry Allen was born. American football player.
• 1971 - Nick Van Exel was born. American basketball player.
• 1972 - Shane Salerno was born. American screenwriter.
• 1973 - Twista (Carl Mitchell) was born. American rapper.
• 1973 - The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The 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 - Evan Karagias was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1973 - Samantha Harris was born. American model and host.
• 1973 - Twista was born. American rapper.
• 1973 - Frank Christian dies (b. 1887). American jazz trumpeter.
• 1974 - Kirk Acevedo was born. American actor.
• 1975 - The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, 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.
• 1975 - Martin Gramatica was born. Argentinian American football player.
• 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.
• 1976 - Jean Grae was born. South African-born rapper.
• 1976 - Jaleel White was born. American actor.
• 1976 - Chad Kilger, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1977 - Mika Tan ws born. American pornographic actress.
• 1978 - In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
• 1978 - Jimmy Rollins was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 - Mike Skinner was born. English musician.
• 1978 - Shy Love was born. Adult film actress.
• 1978 - Tim Yeung was born. American drummer (Vital Remains).
• 1978 - The Streets (Mike Skinner) was born. English rapper and musician.
• 1978 - Radek Štěpánek was born. Czech tennis player.
• 1978 - Harvey Milk dies assassinated (b. 1930). American politician.
• 1978 - George Moscone dies assassinated (b. 1929). Mayor of San Francisco.
• 1979 - Hilary Hahn was born. American violinist.
• 1979 - Ricky Carmichael was born. American motocross racer.
• 1979 - The Game (Jayceon Taylor) was born. American rapper.
• 1979 - Shin Hyesung was born. Korean vocalist Shinhwa.
  
• 1979 - Teemu Tainio was born. Finnish football player.
• 1980 - Michael Yardy was born. English cricketer.
• 1980 - F. Burrall Hoffman dies (b. 1882). American architect.
• 1981 - Bruno Alves was born in Póvoa de Varzim. Portuguese footballer.
• 1981 - Gary Lucy was born. English actor.
• 1981 - Matthew Taylor was born. English football player.
• 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.
• 1984 - Domata Peko was born. American football player.
• 1985 - Fernand Braudel dies (1902). French historian.
• 1985 - Alison Pill was born. Canadian actress.
• 1985 - Klara Ósk Elíasdóttir wasd born. Icelandic singer.
• 1986 - Suresh Kumar Raina was born. Indian cricketer.
• 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.
• 1991 - Nur Atikah Nabilah ws born. Singaporean gymnast.
• 1991 - Vilém Flusser dies. Czech philosopher.
• 1992 - For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
• 1992 - Ivan Generalić dies (b. 1914). Croatian painter.
• 1994 - Fernando Lopes-Graça dies (b. 1906). Portuguese musicologist and composer.
• 1997 - Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
• 1998 - Barbara Acklin dies (b. 1943). American singer and songwriter.
• 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.
• 1999 - Yasuhiro Kojima (Hiro Matsuda) dies (b. 1937). Wrestler.
• 1999 - Alain Peyrefitte dies (b. 1925). French politician and author.
• 2000 - The first version of Orbiter, a free space flight simulator is released.
• 2000 - Len Shackleton dies (b. 1922). English former footballer.
• 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere was discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
• 2003 - Sebastião Uchoa Leite dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. in Timbaúba, PE, 1935). Brazilian poet.
• 2004 - Jerónimo Carvalho de Sousa is elected in Almada leader of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP).
• 2004 - Fernando Valle dies (b. 1900). Founder of Portuguese (Socialist Party) Partido Socialista.
  
• 2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
• 2005 - Presidential elections in Honduras.
• 2005 - Jocelyn Brando dies (b. 1919). American actress.
• 2005 - Joe Jones dies (b. 1926). American R&B singer.
• 2006 - The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada.
• 2006 - Inauguração da barragem Hidroeléctrica de Peixe Angical (Brasil).
• 2006 - Alan Freeman dies (b. 1927). British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff'.
  
• 2006 - Bebe Moore Campbell dies (b. 1950). American author.
  
• 2006 - Casey Coleman dies (b. 1951). American sportscaster.
• 2006 - Don Butterfield dies (b. 1923). American tuba player.
• 2007 - Bernie Banton dies (b. 1946). Australian asbestos campaigner.
  
• 2007 - Bill Willis dies (b. 1921). American football player.
• 2007 - Robert Cade dies (b. 1927). American doctor and inventor of Gatorade.
• 2007 - Sean Taylor dies (b. 1983). American football player.
  
• Portugal: Feriado municipal da cidade de Guarda.