Notable Historical Events on November 27th
November 27th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
399 |
St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1095 |
Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade |
1237 |
Battle of Cortenuova: Holy Roman Emperor Frederik II defeated the Second Lombardian League |
1295 |
English King Edward I calls what later became known as "The Model Parliament" extending the authorities of its representatives |
1382 |
Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish army. Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde killed and corpse displayed |
1495 |
Scottish king James IV receives Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English trone |
1587 |
Dutch county of Groningen flooded by failure of dyke |
1703 |
The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703. |
1798 |
Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St Petersburg jail |
1807 |
The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops |
1815 |
City of Kraków (Poland) declared a free republic state by the Congress of Vienna |
1815 |
Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland |
1817 |
US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War |
1826 |
John Walker invents friction match in England |
1839 |
American Statistical Association organizes in Boston |
1843 |
Opera "Bohemian Girl" is produced (London) |
1863 |
-29] Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas |
1863 |
Battle of Payne's Farm, VA |
1864 |
2nd day of Battles at Waynesboro, Georgia |
1868 |
Battle at Washita River, Oklahoma. General Custer attacks group of Native American Indians, their chief Black Kettle dies in the attack |
1870 |
NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game" |
1885 |
Earliest photograph of a meteor shower taken |
1889 |
1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady) |
1889 |
Hermann Sudermann's "Ehre" premieres in Berlin |
1890 |
1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation |
1895 |
Alfred Nobel's will establishes Nobel Prizes |
1896 |
"Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) debuts in Frankfurt |
1901 |
Army War College forms in Washington DC |
1901 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der rote Hahn" premieres in Berlin |
1901 |
U.S. Army War College is established. |
1901 |
Prince Ito of Japan comes to St Petersburg hoping to get the Russians to grant Japan concessions in Korea, but later drops this goal and decides to make an alliance with Britain |
1903 |
Opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich) |
1910 |
NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal |
1911 |
Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US |
1912 |
Albanian National Flag adopted |
1912 |
Spanish protectorate in Morocco forms |
1914 |
1st British woman elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire) |
1919 |
Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies & Bulgaria |
1924 |
57,000 watch a High School football game (LA & Polytechnic tie 7-7) |
1924 |
In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. |
1925 |
German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno |
1926 |
110,000 watch US Army & Navy play a 21-all tie |
1926 |
Béla Bartok's ballet "Miraculous Mandarin" premieres in Keulen |
1926 |
Italian & Albania sign peace treaty |
1926 |
KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions |
1926 |
Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins |
1931 |
1st Test Cricket match at the Gabba Bradman scores 200 on 1st day |
1932 |
Poland & USSR sign non-aggression treaty |
1934 |
Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI. |
1937 |
Pro-labor musical revue "Pins & Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU |
1939 |
Maxwell Anderson's "Key Largo" premieres in NYC |
1940 |
6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB) |
1941 |
British 13th Army Corps reaches Tobruk |
1941 |
Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP |
1941 |
USSR begins a counter offensive, causes Germany to retreat |
1942 |
Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ |
1942 |
French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis cannot seize them |
1942 |
Tito appoints Anti-fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia |
1943 |
31st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Flying Wildcats defeat Winn Bombers, 23-14 |
1943 |
Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin) |
1944 |
4,000 shells detonate in RAF arms depot at Fauld, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire; village of Hanbury destroyed, at least 70 people killed |
1944 |
US 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hurtgen |
1945 |
Gen George Marshall named special US envoy to China |
1945 |
Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins |
1945 |
Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina |
1946 |
English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2 |
1947 |
Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote |
1948 |
36th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 12-7 |
1948 |
Honda 1st opens in America |
1950 |
Red Sox sign shortstop Lou Boudreau as a player to 2-year contract |
1950 |
Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague |
1951 |
1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM |
1951 |
Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea |
1952 |
KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL's MVP |
1954 |
"By the Beautiful Sea" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 270 perfs |
1954 |
42nd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 26-25 |
1954 |
Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury. |
1956 |
F Goodrich and A Hackett's "Diary of Anne Frank" premieres in Netherlands |
1957 |
Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration |
1958 |
USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany |
1960 |
CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel" |
1960 |
Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast |
1960 |
Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points |
1960 |
Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo |
1960 |
Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38 |
1961 |
Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games |
1961 |
KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place |
1962 |
Sumner Arthur Long's "Never Too Late" premieres in NYC |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg. |
1965 |
15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington, DC |
1965 |
1st French satellite launched; France becomes 3rd nation in space |
1965 |
53rd CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers, 22-16 |
1966 |
In highest-scoring NFL game, Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41 |
1966 |
Uruguay adopts constitution |
1967 |
Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour" |
1967 |
Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price |
1967 |
French President Charles de Gaulle said 'Non!' to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time |
1970 |
Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year |
1970 |
George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass" |
1970 |
Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest |
1970 |
Test Cricket debut of Rodney "Iron Gloves" Marsh v England, Brisbane |
1971 |
Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars |
1971 |
Two Customs officials are shot by an Irish Republican Army sniper firinge upon a British Army patrol investigating a bomb attack on a Customs Post near Newry, County Armagh |
1972 |
Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government |
1972 |
Yanks trade Ellis, Torres & Spikes to Indians for Nettles & Moses |
1973 |
Gary Matthews wins NL Rookie of Year |
1973 |
Neil Simon's "Good Doctor" premieres in NYC |
1973 |
Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP |
1973 |
US President Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, authorizing petroleum price, production, allocation and marketing controls |
1974 |
Cardinals outfielder Bake McBride wins NL Rookie of Year |
1975 |
Red Sox's Fred Lynn is 1st rookie to win MVP (AL) |
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. |
1976 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Colgate-Far East Golf Championship |
1976 |
Miss Teenage America Pageant |
1977 |
"Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Imperial NY after 66 perf |
1977 |
65th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 41-6 |
1979 |
1st day-night one-day cricket international, Australia v WI at SCG |
1980 |
Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched |
1982 |
5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0 |
1982 |
Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 v England) |
1983 |
71st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats BC Lions, 18-17 |
1983 |
Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 181 |
1983 |
Desmond Haynes out handled the ball v India |
1985 |
Cards Vince Coleman wins NL Rookie of Year |
1985 |
Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland |
1987 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney |
1987 |
Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset, England |
1988 |
76th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats BC Lions, 22-21 |
1989 |
Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107 |
1989 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1989 |
George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" & "Poor Little Girl" |
1989 |
Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay |
1989 |
US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space |
1990 |
British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as leader ( and hence as Prime Minister) |
1991 |
"Peter Pan" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances |
1991 |
Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba) |
1991 |
Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ |
1992 |
Howard Stern Interview premieres on E! Network |
1992 |
Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire |
1993 |
Boon completes his 18th Test Cricket century (106 v NZ, Hobart) |
1993 |
India defeat West Indies in Bengal Jubilee Cricket Final, Kumble 6-12 |
1993 |
Lisa Hanna, 18, of Jamaica, crowned 43rd Miss World |
1994 |
82nd CFL Grey Cup: British Columbia Lions defeat Balt Stallions, 26-23 |
1994 |
Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed |
1994 |
Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay |
1997 |
Lions' Barry Sanders becomes NFL's 2nd all-time rusher |
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 Minister 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. |
2004 |
New Zealand's All Blacks thump Six Nations Rugby Union Champions France 45-6 in Paris |
2004 |
Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church. |
2005 |
The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France. |
2005 |
President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-serving head of state in the world, was re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term. |
2005 |
93rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 38-35 |
2006 |
The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada. |
2006 |
Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic, resigned from his position as lifetime senator. |
2011 |
99th CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 34-23 |
2012 |
29 people are killed and 126 are wounded by 8 car bombings across Iraq |
2012 |
The Eurozone announces that it will make loans of 43.7 billion euros to Greece |
2013 |
Tiger Woods is named PGA Tour's player of the year for the 11th time |
2013 |
Greece becomes the first developed market to be demoted into an emerging market by the MSCI index |
2013 |
"Frozen", the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released |
2016 |
7 Dead, 1 Missing as Waves Hit New Zealand Fishing Boat |
2016 |
No. 2 Ohio State Defeats No. 3 Michigan in Overtime Thriller |
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