November 27
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[edit] Births
- 1900 - Leon Barzin, conductor (d. 1999)
- 1901 - Ted Husing, sportscaster (d. 1962)
- 1903 - Johnny Blood, American football player (d. 1986)
- 1903 - Mona Washbourne, actress (d. 1988)
- 1907 - L. Sprague de Camp, science fiction writer (d. 2000)
- 1909 - James Agee, American writer (d. 1955)
- 1911 - David Merrick, Broadway producer (d. 2000)
- 1916 - Chick Hearn, sports announcer (d. 2002)
- 1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith, television host (Howdy Doody) (d. 1998)
- 1921 - Alexander Dubček, Czech politician (d. 1992)
- 1925 - John Maddox, science writer
- 1925 - Marshall Thompson, actor (d. 1992)
- 1925 - Michael Tolan, actor
- 1925 - Ernie Wise, comedian (d. 1999)
- 1926 - Barbara Anderson, author
- 1927 - Castilho, Brazilian legendary football goalkeeper
- 1932 - Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine opposition leader (d. 1983)
- 1936 - Jacqueline Danno, actress
- 1937 - Gail Sheehy, writer
- 1940 - Bruce Lee, actor, martial arts expert (d. 1973)
- 1942 - Jimi Hendrix, musician (d. 1970)
- 1942 - Henry Carr, American athlete
- 1944 - Eddie Rabbitt, singer (d. 1998)
- 1951 - Jayne Kennedy, sportscaster, actress
- 1952 - James D. Wetherbee, astronaut
- 1952 - Sheila Copps, politician
- 1953 - Curtis Armstrong, actor
- 1954 - Patricia McPherson, American actress
- 1955 - Bill Nye, science guy
- 1957 - Caroline Kennedy, journalist
- 1959 - Charlie Burchill, musician
- 1960 - Ken O'Brien, American football player
- 1960 - Paul Robinson, fiction author
- 1962 - Charlie Benante, musician
- 1962 - Davey Boy Smith, professional wrestler (The British Bulldog) (d. 2002)
- 1963 - Fisher Stevens, actor
- 1964 - Robin Givens, actress
- 1965 - Fiachna O'Broanain, musician
- 1965 - Kaori, actress
- 1968 - Paul J. Perrone, author & roboticist
- 1968 - Michael Vartan, actor
- 1971 - Edward Schocker, composer
- 1971 - Erik Menendez
- 1975 - Martin Gramatica, American football player, kicker
- 1976 - Jaleel White, actor
- 1979 - The Game, born Jayceon Taylor, [[Rapper
[edit] Deaths
[edit] Events
- 399 - St. Anastius I becomes Pope.
- 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
- 1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse destroyed in storm.
- 1839 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio state prison 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 a band of peaceful Cheyenne living on reservation land.
- 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.
- 1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
- 1919 - Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1924 - In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
- 1926 - In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.
- 1934 - Death of bank robber Baby Face Nelson in a gun battle with the FBI.
- 1940 - In Romania, General Ion Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled king Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister and acclaimed historian Nicolae Iorga. Mediterranean Sea: battle of Cape Spartivento between the Royal Navy and the Regia Marina
- 1946 - Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster".
- 1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells US President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
- 1973 - 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.
- 1983 - A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Barajas Airport, in Madrid killing 183
- 1987 - Canadian rock band Cowboy Junkies record their breakthrough album The Trinity Sessions in one night using one microphone at Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto.
- 1990 - The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1991 - The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
- 1997 - Second Souhane massacre in Algeria; 25 killed.
- 1999 - A new era in government begins in New Zealand as the left-wing Labour Party takes control with leader Helen Clark, the first elected female Prime Minster in New Zealand's history.
- 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere was discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
