About November 27
November 27, 2021 is the 331st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 66 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 27
- 1095 –Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
- 1727 –The foundation stone to the Jerusalem’s Church in Berlin is laid.
- 1807 –The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.
- 1830 –St. Catherine Laboure experiences a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.
- 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.
- 1868 –Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
- 1886 –German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for “Effi Briest”, a classic work of German literature.
- 1901 –The U.S. Army War College is established.
- 1934 –Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
- 1940 –In Romania, the ruling party Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania’s aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
- 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.
- 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 –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.
- 1984 –Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
- 1992 –For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow 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 Minister in New Zealand’s history.
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