What are the important events that happened on November 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 27: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 27 is the 332^nd 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 14, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,877,760 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontadigon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,359 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 27 Historical Events

• 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”.
• 1807 –
  The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.
• 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.
• 1924 –
  In New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
• 1934 –
  Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
• 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.
• 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).
• 1978 –
  In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
• 1983 –
  Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid’s Barajas Airport, killing 181.
• 2001 –
  A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

Who were born on November 27?

• 1903 –
  Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
• 1932 –
  Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine politician (d. 1983)
• 1941 –
  Louis van Dijk, Dutch pianist
• 1949 –
  Masanori Sekiya, Japanese racing driver
• 1957 –
  Caroline Kennedy, American journalist and attorney
• 1973 –
  Sharlto Copley, South African producer, actor and director
• 1974 –
  Kirk Acevedo, American actor
• 1977 –
  Mika Tan, American pornographic actress
• 1978 –
  Mike Skinner, English musician (The Streets)
• 1981 –
  Bruno Alves, Portuguese footballer

Who died on November 27?

• 8 BC –
  Horace, Roman poet (b. 65 BC)
• 395 –
  Rufinus, Roman consul and praetorian prefect
• 450 –
  Galla Placidia, daughter of Theodosius I (b. 392)
• 1894 –
  Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
• 1940 –
  Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (b. 1871)
• 1953 –
  Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1988 –
  John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
• 1994 –
  Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
• 2000 –
  Len Shackleton, English former footballer (b. 1922)
• 2006 –
  Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)