November 27 is the 331st day of the year (332nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
NATIONAL BAVARIAN CREAM PIE DAY
395 – Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
NATIONAL BAVARIAN CREAM PIE DAY
395 – Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1727 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.
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.
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.
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 – The U.S. Army War College is established.
1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.
1944 – World War II: RAF Fauld explosion — An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury. With the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent access to sealed documents there, it was established that Hiss was indeed a Soviet spy.
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.
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.
1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
1991 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. [Not a photo of Osiris.]
2009 – The 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.
2015 – An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, shoots at least four members of the Colorado Springs Police Department. One officer later dies. Two civilians were also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered.
2015 – An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, shoots at least four members of the Colorado Springs Police Department. One officer later dies. Two civilians were also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered.
1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate Chemisty (d. 1976)
1921 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak soldier and politician (d. 1992)
1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1970)
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
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