About November 27
November 27, 2022 is the 331st day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
You can browse the full year calendar in case you need it.
Hey! How’s your lovelife today? Get a free love reading
with the most frank answers. Start to seize love opportunities in your life! Did I mention it’s F-R-E-E?
(Sponsored link; 18+ only)
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 56 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 27
- 395 –Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
- 1839 –In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
- 1856 –The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg’s unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
- 1901 –The U.S. Army War College is established.
- 1924 –In New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1973 –The Twenty-fifth Amendment: 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).
- 1978 –In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
- 1978 –The Kurdish party PKK is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.
- 1983 –Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid’s Barajas Airport, killing 181.
- 1989 –Avianca Flight 203, a Boeing 727, explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel claimed responsibility for the attack.
- 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.
- 2005 –The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
What no one tells you about your first name’s personality. Are there magical powers in your given name? Check out Alberto’s personality today! (Sponsored links)
Share or Link to This Page: