About November 27
November 27, 2024 is the 332nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 63 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.
- 1095 –Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
- 1703 –The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
- 1727 –The foundation stone to the Jerusalem’s Church in Berlin is laid.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1963 –The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
- 1963 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his first address to Congress as president following the assassination of John F. Kennedy five days prior.
- 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 –In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
- 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.
- 1991 –The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
- 2001 –A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
- 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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