November 27

November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year. There are 34 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays

5 Recorded this date

Events

399 - St. Anastius I becomes Pope.
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 the Washita River - In the early morning, United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on a band of peaceful Cheyenne living on reservation land with Chief Black Kettle, killing 103 Cheyenne (this was later regarded as the first substantial US victory in the war).
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 (he died of a cerebral hemorrhage on December 10, 1896).
1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
1924 - In the New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1926 - In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.
1934 - A running gun battle between FBI agents and bank robber Baby Face Nelson results in the death of one FBI agent and the mortal wounding of special agent Sam Cowley, who is still able to mortally shoot Nelson.
1940 - In Romania, coup leader General Ion Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled king Carol II of Romania's aides. Among the dead is former minister and acclaimed historian Nicolae Iorga.
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."
1965 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells US President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned major sweep operations needed to neutralize Viet Cong forces during the next year 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
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 unanimously adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia. [1]

Births

1701 - Anders Celsius, inventor, astronomer (d. 1744)
1710 - Robert Lowth, bishop of the Church of England (d. 1787)
1746 - Robert Livingston, politician (d. 1813)
1804 - Julius Benedict, composer (d. 1885)
1809 - Fanny Kemble, actress (d. 1893)
1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, businessman, philanthropist (d. 1899)
1843 - Elizabeth Stride, third confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1857 - Charles Scott Sherrington, physiologist, winner of 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1952)
1865 - Jose Asuncion Silva, poet (d. 1896)
1867 - Charles Koechlin, composer (d. 1950)
1874 - Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (d. 1952)
1874 - Charles A. Beard, historian (d. 1948)
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, 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 Dubcek, Czech politician (d. 1992)
1925 - Ernie Wise, comedian (d. 1999)
1925 - Marshall Thompson, actor (d. 1992)
1925 - Michael Tolan, actor
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)
1944 - Eddie Rabbitt, singer (d. 1998)
1945 - Barbara Anderson, actress
1951 - Jayne Kennedy, sportscaster, actress
1952 - James D Wetherbee, astronaut
1954 - Curtis Armstrong, actor
1957 - Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, journalist
1959 - Charlie Burchill, musician
1960 - Ken O'Brien, American football player
1962 - Charlie Benante, musician
1963 - Fisher Stevens, actor
1964 - Robin Givens, actress
1965 - Fiachna O'Broanain, musician
1968 - Michael Vartan, actor
1971 - Edward Schocker, composer
1976 - Jaleel White, actor
1976 - Tyrone Sutton

Deaths

8 BC Horace, poet, satirist, dies
450 - Galla Placidia, daughter and mother of Roman Emperors
511 - Clovis I, king of the Franks
835 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam
1811 - Andrew Meikle, mechanical engineer
1895 - Alexandre Dumas fils, author
1934 - Baby Face Nelson, gangster
1953 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright
1955 - Arthur Honegger, composer
1973 - Frank Christian, jazz musician (b. 1887)
1975 - Ross McWhirter, Guinness Book of Records keeper
1978 - George Moscone, politician
1978 - Harvey Milk, politician
1981 - Lotte Lenya, singer, actress
1984 - Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India
1986 - Steve Tracy, actor
1988 - John Carradine, actor
1992 - Ivan Generalić, painter naive art, Croatia

Holidays

USA-Thanksgiving (if a Thursday)

Recorded this date

1901 "My Lonesome Little Louisiana Lady" (w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards)
- Joe Natus
1901 "I'll Be With You When The Roses Bloom Again" (w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards)
- Joseph Natus
1916 "A Broken Doll" (w.m. James W. Tate & Clifford Harris)
- Al Jolson with O/Charles A. Prince
1916 "My Hawaiian Sunrise" (w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Carey Morgan)
- Henry Burr & Albert C. Campbell
1920 "Grieving For You" (w.m. Joe Gibson, Joe Ribaud & Joe Gold)
- Marion Harris
1925 "I Never Knew" (w. Gus Kahn m. Ted Fio Rito)
- Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret
1925 "Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!" (w. Billy Rose & Ballard MacDonald m. Joseph Meyer)
- Billy Murray with Jack Shilkret & his Orchestra
1926 "Like He Loves Me" (w. Anne Caldwell m. Vincent Youmans)
- Beatrice Lillie with p. Vincent Youmans
1928 "Cross Roads" (Klages, Mendoza, Akst)
- Henry Burr
1928 "Here Comes My Ball And Chain" (w. Louis Davis m. J. Fred Coots)
- Joe Sanders with Coon-Sanders Original Night Hawks
1928 "High Up On A Hilltop" (w.m. Abel Baer, George Whiting & Ivan Campbell)
- Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians
1929 "The Drum Major" (Newton)
- Peter Dawson with O/George W. Byng
1929 "The Journey's End" (De Rance arr. Hewett)
- Peter Dawson
1929 "A Chip Of The Old Block" (Squire)
- Peter Dawson
1929 "'Tis I" (Ciro E. Pinsuti, F. Lablache)
- Peter Dawson
1931 "I Don't Know Why" (w. Roy Turk m. Fred E. Ahlert)
- Phyllis Robins & Sam Browne with Ambrose & his Orchestra
1931 "I Wanna Be Loved By You" (w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby & Herbert Stothart)
- Sam Browne with Ambrose & his Orchestra
1933 "By A Waterfall" (w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain)
- Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
1933 "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" (w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols)
- Billie Holiday with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
1933 "A Hundred Years From Today" (w. Ned Washington & Joe Young m. Victor Young)
- Ethel Waters with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
1933 "I Just Couldn't Take It Baby" (w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols)
- Ethel Waters with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
1933 "One Morning In May" (w. Mitchell Parish m. Hoagy Carmichael)
- Lanny Ross with Ray Sinatra & his Orchestra
1933 "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" (w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel)
- Carmen Lombardo with Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians
1933 "My Song Goes 'Round The World" (w.m. Hans May, Ernst Neubach & Jimmy Kennedy)
- Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
1933 "Honeymoon Hotel" (w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren)
- Pat O'Malley, Sonny Farrar & Billy Ternent with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
1934 "Lady Fair" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Anything Goes Foursome
1934 "Anything Goes" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Cole Porter with own piano accompaniment
1935 "Two Little Babes In The Wood" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Cole Porter with own piano accompaniment
1934 "Nobody Loves A Fairy When She's Forty" (w.m. Arthur W. D. Henley)
- Bertha Willmott with Billy Cotton & his Band
1935 "Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo" (w.m. Johnny Mercer & Matt Malneck)
- Bob Crosby
- Ginger Rogers & Johnny Mercer with Victor Young
1935 "One Fine Day" (w. Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa m. Giacomo Puccini)
- Grace Moore with O/Joseph Pasternack
1935 "Love Me Forever" (w. Gus Kahn m. Victor Schertzinger)
- Grace Moore with O/Joseph Pasternack
1941 "Ev'rything I Love" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
1941 "Winter Weather" (w.m. Ted Shapiro)
- Peggy Lee & Art London with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
1945 "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne)
- Connie Boswell with O/Russ Morgan
1945 "The Song Is You" (w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern)
- Waring's Pennsylvanians
1947 "Galway Bay" (w.m. Dr Arthur Colahan)
- Bing Crosby with O/Victor Young
1947 "Swingin' Down The Lane" (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones)
- Bing Crosby with O/John Scott Trotter
1947 "Memories" (w. Gustave Kahn m. Egbert Van Alstyne)
- Bing Crosby with O/John Scott Trotter
1947 "I'll See You In My Dreams" (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones)
- Bing Crosby with O/John Scott Trotter
1947 "Joplin's Sensation" (m. Scott Joplin)
- Mutt Carey & his New Yorkers
1947 "Alice Blue Gown" (w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney)
- Jo Stafford
1947 "In The Still Of The Night" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Jo Stafford with O/Paul Weston
1947 "Through The Years" (w. Edward Heyman m. Vincent Youmans)
- Jo Stafford with O/Paul Weston
1947 "In The Market Place Of Old Monterey" (w. Stanley Adams m. Peter DeRose)
- Harry Babbitt with Kay Kyser & his Orchestra
1951 "Dance Me Loose" (w. Mel Howard m. Lee Erwin)
- Arthur Godfrey & Chordettes with O/Archie Bleyer
1951 "Slow Poke" (w.m. Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart & Chilton Price)
- Arthur Godfrey w. Chordettes with O/Archie Bleyer
1953 "Taking A Chance On Love" (w. John Latouche & Ted Fetter m. Vernon Duke)
- Jo Stafford
1953 "Where Are You?" (Kahn, Rinker)
- Jo Stafford with O/Paul Weston
1957 "The Stroll" (w.m. Nancy Lee & Clyde Otis)
- Diamonds
1957 "Walking Along" (Sam Weiss, Winston Willis)
- Diamonds
1962 "Nobody's Darlin' But Mine" (w.m. Jimmie Davis)
- Frank Ifield with O/Norrie Paramor
1966 "Willkommen" (w. Fred Ebb m. John Kander)
- Joel Grey with O/Harold Hastings

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