SomeFacts | November 27

On this day - November 27

25 — Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by ...

176 — Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of ...

395 — Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic ...

511 — King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St ...

602 — Byzantine Emperor Maurice is forced to watch as the usurper ...

1095 — Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of ...

1382 — Al-Salih Hajji, the last Qalawunid sultan, is deposed by ...

1542 — Palace plot of Renyin year: A group of Ming dynasty palace ...

1727 — The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.

1755 — An earthquake in northern Morocco devastates the cities of Fes ...

1809 — The Berners Street hoax is perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the ...

1815 — Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.

1830 — Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a Marian apparition.

1835 — James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the ...

1839 — In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association ...

1856 — The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral ...

1863 — American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under ...

1863 — American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt ...

1868 — American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States ...

1879 — War of the Pacific: Battle of Tarapacá: The confrontation ...

1895 — At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his ...

1896 — Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.

1901 — The U.S. Army War College is established.

1912 — Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.

1917 — P. E. Svinhufvud becomes the chairman of his first senate, ...

1918 — The Makhnovshchina is established.

1924 — In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day ...

1940 — World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal ...

1940 — In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates ...

1942 — World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships ...

1944 — World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air ...

1945 — CARE (then the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) ...

1954 — Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for ...

1965 — Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. ...

1968 — Penny Ann Early becomes the first woman to play in a major ...

1971 — The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a ...

1973 — Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92–3 to ...

1975 — The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press ...

1978 — The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the ...

1978 — In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay ...

1983 — Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's ...

1984 — Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of ...

1985 — Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-61-B, with ...

1989 — Avianca Flight 203: A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over ...

1992 — For the second time in a year, military forces try to ...

1997 — Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre ...

1999 — The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand ...

2001 — A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet ...

2004 — Blackwater 61 crash: A CASA C-212 Aviocar crashes into the ...

2004 — Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom ...

2006 — The House of Commons of Canada approves a motion introduced by ...

2008 — XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a ...

2009 — Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express ...

2015 — An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in ...

2020 — Days after the announcement of its discovery, the Utah ...

2020 — Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is ...

2024 — Syrian rebel groups led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham launch a ...