About November 27
November 27, 2025 is the 331st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 82 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.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 1703 –The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1954 –Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1991 –The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
- 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.
- 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.
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