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 331st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 14, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,403,360 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 ‘trihectatriacontahenagon’ day.
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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 82 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 4,724 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 27 Historical Events
- 1095 –Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
- 1815 –Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
- 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.
- 1912 –Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
- 1934 –Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
- 1942 –World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on November 27?
- 1843 –Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
- 1903 –Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
- 1909 –Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
- 1934 –Gilbert Strang, American mathematician
- 1939 –Dave Giusti, American baseball player
- 1945 –Phil Bloom, Dutch artist, entertainer and actress
- 1957 –Frank Boeijen, Dutch singer, songwriter and guitarist
- 1976 –Jean Grae, South African–born rapper
- 1978 –Shy Love, American pornographic actress
- 1981 –Matthew Taylor, English footballer
Who died on November 27?
- 1754 –Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
- 1895 –Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)
- 1931 –Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
- 1943 –Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan (b. 1916)
- 1978 –Harvey Milk, American politician, civil rights activist (assassinated) (b. 1930)
- 1980 –F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
- 1988 –John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
- 2006 –Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
- 2007 –Bernie Banton, Australian asbestos campaigner (b. 1946)
- 2007 –Robert Cade, American doctor and inventor of Gatorade (b. 1927)
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