About November 27
November 27, 2024 is the 332nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 63 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 27
- 176 –Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
- 1095 –Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
- 1295 –The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as “The Model Parliament”.
- 1807 –The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.
- 1839 –In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
- 1868 –Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
- 1901 –The U.S. Army War College is established.
- 1912 –Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
- 1934 –Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
- 1942 –World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
- 1944 –World War II: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
- 1954 –Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
- 1963 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his first address to Congress as president following the assassination of John F. Kennedy five days prior.
- 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.
- 1975 –The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
- 1978 –In San Francisco, California, 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.
- 1997 –Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
- 2004 –Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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