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November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year. There are 34 days remaining.
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- 399 - St. Anastius I becomes Pope.
- 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
- 1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse destroyed in storm.
- 1839 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
- 1863 - American Civil War: ConfederateThe Confederate States of America CSA also known as the Confederacy was the confederacy formed by the southern states that seceded from the United States during the period of the American Civil War. The 11 states of the Confederacy were Alabama, Arkansas, cavalry leader John Hunt MorganJohn Hunt Morgan was a Confederate General and cavalry officer who led 2,460 troops in a daring raid, called Morgan's Raid, penetrating Union lines into Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio in July of 1863. After many skirmishes and battles during which he capture and several of his men escape the OhioOhio is a Midwestern state in the northeastern corner of the United States. It was the first and eastern-most state in the Midwest admitted to the Union under the Northwest Ordinance. postal abbreviation is OH its old-style abbreviation is O. Ohio is an I state prison and return safely to the South.
- 1868Events January 3 Meiji Emperor declares " Meiji Restoration", his own restoration to full power, against the supporters of the Tokugawa Shogunate. January 10 Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu declares emperor's declaration "illegal" and attacks Kyoto. Pro-Emperor - Indian WarsThe Indian Wars were a series of long-running conflicts between the government and military (regular and irregular) of the United States and the Native American peoples of North America. However, the name is misleading as it suggests that the Native Ameri: Battle of the Washita River - United States ArmyThe Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. As of fiscal year 2002 (FY02), it consisted of 480,000 soldiers on active duty and 555,000 in reserve (350,000 in Army National G Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong CusterGeorge Armstrong Custer ( December 5, 1839 June 25, 1876) was an American cavalry commander in the Civil War and the Indian Wars who is best remembered for his defeat and death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against a coalition of Native American tri leads an attack on a band of peaceful CheyenneThis article is about the Native American tribe; Cheyenne is also the name of a Colorado mountain and military complex, the capital of Wyoming, a Western television series and a small town in Oklahoma. buffalo meat drying, 1870 The Cheyennes are a Native living on reservation land.
- 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.
- 1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
- 1924 - In the New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
- 1926 - In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.
- 1934 - Death of bank robber Baby Face Nelson in a gun battle with the FBI.
- 1940 - In Romania, General Ion Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled king Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister and acclaimed historian Nicolae Iorga.
- 1946 - Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster."
- 1965 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells US President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
- 1973 - 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 - A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Barajas Airport, in Madrid killing 183
- 1990 - The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1991 - The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721 , leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
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