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The 27t o November is the 331t day o the year (332t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 34 days bidin.
Events
- 1815 - The Constitution o the Kinrick o Poland is adoptit.
- 1895 - Alfred Nobel signs his last will an testament, foondin the Nobel Prizes.
- 1912 - Spain declares a protectorate ower the north shore o Morocco.
- 1942 - Warld War II: The French navy destroys its ships in Toulon tae protect them frae German attack.
- 1944 - A splosion at a Ryal Air Force ammunitions dump in Staffordshire kills ower 70 fowk.
- 1945 - A yirdquauk in Iran kills 4,000 fowk.
- 1973 - The Unitit States Senate chooses Gerald Ford tae become Vice Preses o the Unitit States.
- 1982 - Yasuhiro Nakasone becomes Prime meenister o Japan.
- 1983 - A Boeing 747 plane crashes at Madrid Barajas Airport, killin 181 fowk.
- 1990 - Appenzell Innerrhoden becomes the last Swiss canton tae introduce weemen's votin richts.
- 1999 - Helen Clark is electit Prime meenister o New Zealand.
- 2001 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen becomes Prime meenister o Denmark.
- 2005 - The first pairtial human face transplant taks place in Amiens, Fraunce.
- 2006 - Canadae's Hoose o Commons defines Quebec as a naition within Canadae.
- 2009 - A Nevsky Express train is bombed atween Moscow an Saunt Petersburg, killin 28 fowk.
- 2011 - Wales naitional fitbaw team manager Gary Speed commits suicide agit 42.
- 2014 - Australie cricketer Phillip Hughes dees agit 25, efter bein hit on the neck bi a cricket baw.
- 2016 - Nico Rosberg wins the Formula Ane championship.
- 2019 - A crackdoon on protesters in Iraq results in at least 24 daiths.
Births
- 1701 - Anders Celsius, Swadish astronomer (d. 1744)
- 1754 - Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)
- 1870 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 7t Preses o Finland (d. 1956)
- 1874 - Chaim Weizmann, 1st Preses o Israel (d. 1952)
- 1903 - Lars Onsager, Norse chemist (d. 1976)
- 1921 - Alexander Dubcek, Slovak politeecian (d. 1992)
- 1927 - Arnold Clark, Scots businessman (d. 2017)
- 1932 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politeecian (d. 1983)
- 1939 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Preses o the Democratic Republic o the Congo (d. 2001)
- 1940 - Bruce Lee, Cheenese-American actor an mairtial airtist (d. 1973)
- 1942 - Jimi Hendrix, American muisicker (d. 1970)
- 1945 - James Avery, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1947 - Ismail Omar Guelleh, Preses o Djibouti
- 1951 - Kathryn Bigelow, American film director
- 1951 - Vera Fischer, Brazilian actress
- 1955 - Bill Nye, American science communicator, telly presenter an mechanical ingineer
- 1957 - Caroline Kennedy, dochter o John F. Kennedy
- 1959 - Charlie Burchill, Scots muisicker
- 1960 - Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian politeecian
- 1964 - Roberto Mancini, Italian fitbawer
- 1978 - Radek Stepanek, Czech tennis player
- 1982 - Aleksandr Kerzhakov, Roushie fitbawer
- 1982 - Tommy Robinson, Inglis poleetical activist
- 1983 - Professor Green, Inglis rapper
- 1984 - Sanna Nielsen, Swadish sangster
Daiths
- 8 BC - Horace, Roman poet (b. 65 BC)
- 1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German polymath (b. 1602)
- 1700 - Pape Innocent XII (b. 1615)
- 1811 - Andrew Meikle, Scots mechanical ingineer (b. 1719)
- 1852 - Ada Lovelace, Inglis mathemateecian (b. 1815)
- 1895 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (b. 1824)
- 1931 - David Bruce, Scots microbiologist (b. 1855)
- 1950 - James Braid, Scots gowfer (b. 1870)
- 1953 - Eugene O'Neill, American playwricht (b. 1888)
- 2000 - Willie Cunningham, Scots fitbawer (b. 1925)
- 2011 - Gary Speed, Welsh fitbawer an manager (b. 1969)
- 2014 - Phillip Hughes, Australie cricketer (b. 1988)
- 2014 - P. D. James, Inglis writer (b. 1920)
Halidays
- Earliest date for Advent Sunday
- Lancashire Day
Ootside airtins
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