November 27: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year. There are 34 days remaining.

Events

• 399 - St. Anastius I becomes Pope.
• 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
• 1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
• 1839 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
• 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.
• 1868 - Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River - United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
• 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.
• 1901 - U.S. Army War College is established.
• 1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
• 1919 - Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1924 - In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
• 1926 - In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.
• 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 - World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean.
• 1942 - World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
• 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".
• 1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
• 1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 1978 - In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
• 1983 - A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 183.
• 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.
• 1990 - The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1991 - The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
• 1992 - For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
• 1997 - Twenty-five 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 is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
• 2005 - 23rd Southeast Asian Games was officially opened by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Manila, Philippines.
• 2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.

• 1127 - Emperor Xiaozong of China (d. 1194)
• 1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638)
• 1582 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
• 1630 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d. 1665)
• 1635 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, Queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
• 1701 - Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744)
• 1710 - Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787)
• 1746 - Robert Livingston, American signatory of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1813)
• 1804 - Julius Benedict, German-born composer (d. 1885)
• 1809 - Fanny Kemble, British actress (d. 1893)
• 1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1899)
• 1857 - Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)
• 1867 - Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
• 1871 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
• 1874 - Charles A. Beard, American historian (d. 1948)
• 1874 - Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (d. 1952)
• 1901 - Ted Husing, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
• 1903 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
• 1907 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
• 1909 - James Agee, American writer (d. 1955)
• 1911 - David Merrick, American stage producer (d. 2000)
• 1916 - Chick Hearn, American sports announcer (d. 2002)
• 1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)
• 1920 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch international footballer (d. 1985)
• 1921 - Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1992)
• 1925 - John Maddox, British science writer and editor
• 1925 - Ernie Wise, British comedian (d. 1999)
• 1926 - Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author
• 1927 - Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer
• 1928 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (d. 2005)
• 1932 - Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine politician (d. 1983)
• 1937 - Gail Sheehy, American writer
• 1940 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973)
• 1941 - Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (d. 1998)
• 1941 - Aimé Jacquet, French international football manager
• 1942 - Henry Carr, American athlete
• 1942 - Jimi Hendrix, American singer, guitarist and songwriter (d. 1970)
• 1948 - James L. Avery, Sr., American actor
• 1951 - Jayne Kennedy, American sportscaster and actress
• 1952 - James D. Wetherbee, American astronaut
• 1952 - Sheila Copps, Canadian politician
• 1953 - Curtis Armstrong, American actor
• 1953 - Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer and poet, leader of the band Aquarium
• 1954 - Patricia McPherson, American actress
• 1955 - Bill Nye, American engineer and broadcaster
• 1956 - William Fichtner, American actor
• 1957 - Caroline Kennedy, American journalist
• 1958 - Mike Scioscia, American baseball manager
• 1960 - Ken O'Brien, American football player
• 1962 - Charlie Benante, American musician
• 1962 - Davey Boy Smith (David Smith), British professional wrestler (d. 2002)
• 1963 - Fisher Stevens, American actor
• 1964 - Robin Givens, American actress
• 1966 - Andy Merrill, American voice actor
• 1968 - Michael Vartan, French actor
• 1969 - Kianna Dior, Canadian adult film star
• 1971 - Nick Van Exel, American basketball player
• 1973 - Evan Karagias, American professional wrestler
• 1973 - Twista (Carl Mitchell), American rapper
• 1975 - Martin Gramatica, American football player
• 1976 - Jaleel White, American actor
• 1978 - Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
• 1978 - The Streets (Mike Skinner), British rapper and musician
• 1979 - The Game (Jayceon Taylor), American rapper
• 1985 - Alison Pill, Canadian actress

• 8 BC - Horace, Roman poet and satirist (b. 65 BC)
• 511 - Clovis I, King of the Franks
• 835 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811)
• 1198 - Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
• 1474 - Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer
• 1570 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
• 1592 - Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
• 1592 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
• 1632 - John Eliot, English statesman (b. 1592)
• 1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
• 1754 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
• 1811 - Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
• 1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
• 1895 - Alexandre Dumas fils, French author (b. 1824)
• 1908 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
• 1931 - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
• 1932 - Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
• 1934 - Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)
• 1940 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (executed)
• 1943 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (b. 1914)
• 1944 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
• 1953 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1955 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)
• 1958 - Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
• 1973 - Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
• 1975 - Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
• 1978 - Harvey Milk, American politician (assassinated) (b. 1930)
• 1978 - George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (assassinated) (b. 1929)
• 1981 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
• 1988 - John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
• 1990 - David White, American actor (b. 1916)
• 1992 - Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
• 2005 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)

• R.C. Saints - Saint Vergilius of Salzburg; James the Persian ( James Intercisus ); (fictitious) saints Barlaam and Josaphat
• Also see November 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• USA-Thanksgiving (if a Thursday)

• 1901 My Lonesome Little Louisiana Lady (w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards)
  - Joe Natus
  
• 1901 I'll Be With You When The Roses Bloom Again (w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards)
  - Joseph Natus
  
• 1916 A Broken Doll (w.m. James W. Tate & Clifford Harris)
  - Al Jolson with O/Charles A. Prince
  
• 1916 My Hawaiian Sunrise (w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Carey Morgan)
  - Henry Burr & Albert C. Campbell
  
• 1920 Grieving For You (w.m. Joe Gibson, Joe Ribaud & Joe Gold)
  - Marion Harris
  
• 1925 I Never Knew (w. Gus Kahn m. Ted Fio Rito)
  - Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret
  
• 1925 Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley! (w. Billy Rose & Ballard MacDonald m. Joseph Meyer)
  - Billy Murray with Jack Shilkret & his Orchestra
  
• 1926 Like He Loves Me (w. Anne Caldwell m. Vincent Youmans)
  - Beatrice Lillie with p. Vincent Youmans
  - Beatrice Lillie with p. Vincent Youmans
  - Phyllis Robins & Sam Browne with Ambrose & his Orchestra
  
• 1931 I Wanna Be Loved By You (w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby & Herbert Stothart)
  - Sam Browne with Ambrose & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 By A Waterfall (w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain)
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 Your Mother's Son-In-Law (w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols)
  - Billie Holiday with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 A Hundred Years From Today (w. Ned Washington & Joe Young m. Victor Young)
  - Ethel Waters with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 I Just Couldn't Take It Baby (w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols)
  - Ethel Waters with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 One Morning In May (w. Mitchell Parish m. Hoagy Carmichael)
  - Lanny Ross with Ray Sinatra & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 Did You Ever See A Dream Walking? (w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel)
  - Carmen Lombardo with Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians
  
• 1933 My Song Goes 'Round The World (w.m. Hans May, Ernst Neubach & Jimmy Kennedy)
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 Honeymoon Hotel (w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren)
  - Pat O'Malley, Sonny Farrar & Billy Ternent with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1934 Lady Fair (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Anything Goes Foursome
  
• 1934 Anything Goes (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Cole Porter with own piano accompaniment
  
• 1934 Nobody Loves A Fairy When She's Forty (w.m. Arthur W. D. Henley)
  - Bertha Willmott with Billy Cotton & his Band
  
• 1935 Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo (w.m. Johnny Mercer & Matt Malneck)
  - Bob Crosby
  - Ginger Rogers & Johnny Mercer with Victor Young
  
• 1935 One Fine Day (w. Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa m. Giacomo Puccini)
  - Grace Moore with O/Joseph Pasternack
  
• 1935 Love Me Forever (w. Gus Kahn m. Victor Schertzinger)
  - Grace Moore with O/Joseph Pasternack
  
• 1935 Two Little Babes In The Wood (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Cole Porter with own piano accompaniment
  
• 1941 Ev'rything I Love (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
  
• 1941 Winter Weather (w.m. Ted Shapiro)
  - Peggy Lee & Art London with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
  
• 1945 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne)
  - Connie Boswell with O/Russ Morgan
  
• 1945 The Song Is You (w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern)
  - Waring's Pennsylvanians
  
• 1947 Galway Bay (w.m. Dr Arthur Colahan)
  - Bing Crosby with O/Victor Young
  
• 1947 Swingin' Down The Lane (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones)
  - Bing Crosby with O/John Scott Trotter
  
• 1947 Memories (w. Gustave Kahn m. Egbert Van Alstyne)
  - Bing Crosby with O/John Scott Trotter
  
• 1947 I'll See You In My Dreams (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones)
  - Bing Crosby with O/John Scott Trotter
  
• 1947 Joplin's Sensation (m. Scott Joplin)
  - Mutt Carey & his New Yorkers
  
• 1947 Alice Blue Gown (w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney)
  - Jo Stafford
  
• 1947 In The Still Of The Night (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Jo Stafford with O/Paul Weston
  
• 1947 Through The Years (w. Edward Heyman m. Vincent Youmans)
  - Jo Stafford with O/Paul Weston
  
• 1947 In The Market Place Of Old Monterey (w. Stanley Adams m. Peter DeRose)
  - Harry Babbitt with Kay Kyser & his Orchestra
  
• 1951 Dance Me Loose (w. Mel Howard m. Lee Erwin)
  - Arthur Godfrey & Chordettes with O/Archie Bleyer
  
• 1951 Slow Poke (w.m. Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart & Chilton Price)
  - Arthur Godfrey w. Chordettes with O/Archie Bleyer
  
• 1953 Taking A Chance On Love (w. John Latouche & Ted Fetter m. Vernon Duke)
  - Jo Stafford
  
• 1953 Where Are You? (Kahn, Rinker)
  - Jo Stafford with O/Paul Weston
  
• 1957 The Stroll (w.m. Nancy Lee & Clyde Otis)
  - The Diamonds
  
• 1957 Walking Along (Sam Weiss, Winston Willis)
  - The Diamonds
  
• 1962 Nobody's Darlin' But Mine (w.m. Jimmie Davis)
  - Frank Ifield with O/Norrie Paramor
  
• 1966 Willkommen (w. Fred Ebb m. John Kander)
  - Joel Grey with O/Harold Hastings
  
• 1987 The Trinity Session, Cowboy Junkies

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