Tuesday, November 27, 2012

November 27 in history


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NOV 26      INDEX      NOV 28
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Events


25 – Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.

176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.

395 – Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.

399 – St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

511 – King Clovis I dies at Paris ("Lutetia") and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve. The Merovingian dynasty is continued by his four sons, Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I, who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Metz, Orléans, Paris and Soissons.

602 – Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself; their bodies are thrown into the sea and their heads are exhibited in Constantinople.

1095 – First Crusade: At the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against the Seljuk Turks in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of "Deus vult!" or "God wills it!"

1237 Battle of Cortenuova: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II defeats the Second Lombard League

1295 English King Edward I calls what later became known as "The Model Parliament" extending the authorities of its representatives

1382 Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish army. Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde killed and corpse displayed

1493 Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the 1st native American uprising against Spanish rule. Taíno cacique Caonabo led his people to attack the settlement after the brutal treatment they received from the garrison who disobeyed Columbus's orders.

1495 Scottish king James IV receives Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English trone

1574 Selimiye Mosque, a masterpiece of Ottoman architecture, designed by imperial architect Mimar Sinan, officially opens in Edirne, Turkey

1587 Dutch county of Groningen flooded by failure of dyke

1703 – Great Storm of 1703: An unusual storm system finally dissipates over England after wreaking havoc on the country. Featuring hurricane strength winds, the storm killed somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000 people. The first Eddystone Lighthouse (Winstanley's lighthouse) was destroyed and Hundreds of Royal Navy ships were lost to the storm, the worst in Britain's history.

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

1798 Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St Petersburg jail

1807 – The Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 people leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil to escape invading Napoleonic troops

1809 – The Berners Street hoax: Theodore Hook bets he can make any address the most talked-about in London, proceeds to win by bringing London to a standstill

1815 – Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.

1815 City of Kraków (Poland) declared a free republic state by the Congress of Vienna

1826 John Walker invents friction match in England

1830 – Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.

1835 – James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.

1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

1843 Opera "Bohemian Girl" by Michael William Balfe with a libretto by Alfred Bunn first produced in London

1856 – The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.

1863 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.

1863 Battle at Fort Esperanza, Texas
 
1863 Battle of Payne's Farm, Virginia

1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

1864 2nd day of Battles at Waynesboro, Georgia

1868 – American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River, Oklahoma: Without bothering to identify the village or do any reconnaissance, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an early morning attack on a band of peaceful Cheyenne living with Chief Black Kettle on reservation land. Black Kettle dies in the attack

1870 The New York Times dubs baseball "The National Game"

1885 1st photograph of a meteor taken by Austro-Hungarian photographer Ladislaus Weinek in Prague

1886 – German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.

1889 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady)

1889 Hermann Sudermann's "Ehre" premieres in Berlin

1890 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation

1895 – At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.

1896 "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel, debuts in Frankfurt

1901 Gerhart Hauptmann's play "Der rote Hahn" premieres in Berlin

1901 Prince Ito of Japan comes to St Petersburg hoping to get the Russians to grant Japan concessions in Korea, but later drops this goal and decides to make an alliance with Britain

1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established at Carlisle Barracks in Pennsylvania, founded under the direction of President Teddy Roosevelt.

1903 Opera "Die Neugierigen Frauen" by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is produced in Munich

1910: Penn Station in New York City opens as world's largest railway terminal.

1911 Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US

1912 Albanian National Flag adopted

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

1914 1st British woman elected political agent (Grantham, Lincolnshire)

1914:  German commander Paul von Hindenburg issued a triumphant proclamation from the battlefields of the Eastern Front, celebrating his army's campaign against Russian forces in the Polish city of Warsaw.

1919 Ignacy Jan Paderewski resigns as Polish Prime Minister

1919 Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies & Bulgaria

1920 "The Mark of Zorro" directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York - 1st American superhero film

1924 – The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held in New York City,

1924 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA & Polytechnic tie 7-7)

1926 Béla Bartók's ballet "Miraculous Mandarin" premieres at the Cologne Opera, Germany, conducted by Eugen Szenkar

1926 Italy & Albania sign peace treaty

1926 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins

1932 Poland & USSR sign non-aggression treaty

1934 Bank robber Baby Face Nelson and two FBI agents die in a shoot-out in Barrington, Illinois

1937 Pro-labor musical revue "Pins & Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU

1939 Maxwell Anderson's play "Key Largo" premieres in NYC

1940 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB)

1940 – Two months after General Ion Antonescu seized power in Romania and forced King Carol II to abdicate, Antonescu's ruling Iron Guard fascist party arrested and executed more than 60 aides of the exiled king, including acclaimed historian and former Prime Minister Nicolae Iorga.

1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.

1941 British 13th Army Corps reaches Tobruk in Libya

1941 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP, for the 2nd time

1941 USSR begins a counter offensive, causes Germany to retreat

1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines in order to keep them out of Nazi hands.

1942 Tito appoints Anti-fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia

1944 – World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: 4,000 shells detonate in RAF arms depot at Fauld, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire; village of Hanbury destroyed, at least 70 people killed

1944 US 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hurtgen in Germany

1945 Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina

1945 – CARE (then the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) was founded to a send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II.

1945 General George Marshall named special US envoy to China

1945 Trial against Dutch Fascist NSB leader Anton Mussert begins (later convicted and executed by firing squad)

1946 Peter Fraser's Labour government wins a second term in New Zealand's general elections

1947 Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote

1948 Honda first opens in America

1950 Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague

1951 1st rocket to intercept an airplane at White Sands, New Mexico

1951 Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea

1953 Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL's MVP

1954 "By the Beautiful Sea" closes at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 270 performances

1954 – Former government official Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury, and proclaimed once again that he was innocent of the charges that led to his incarceration.

1956 Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's "The Diary of Anne Frank" premieres in Netherlands

1957 US Army withdraws from Little Rock, Arkansas after Central High School integration

1958 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany

1960 CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"

1960 Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast

1960: Gordie Howe becomes the first National Hockey League player to score 1,000 points.

1960 Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville, Congo

1961 Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games

1962: The first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company’s Renton Plant; first test flight takes place.

1962 Sumner Arthur Long's play "Never Too Late" premieres in NYC

1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1963 – The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.

1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if General Westmoreland is to conduct the major sweep operations necessary to destroy enemy forces during the coming year, the number of American troops in Vietnam should be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.

1965 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington, D.C.

1966 Uruguay adopts constitution

1967 French President Charles de Gaulle said 'Non!' to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time

1967 Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price

1967 Jimi Hendrix headlines bill (including The Move and Pink Floyd) for 2 shows at Whitla Hall, Queens College, in Belfast - his only concerts in Ireland

1967 The Beatles release their album "Magical Mystery Tour" in US; issued as an EP in UK in December

1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.

1970 George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass" - it becomes the best selling solo release of any of the Beatles, going 6X Platinum

1970 Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest

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.

1971 Two Customs officials are shot by an Irish Republican Army sniper firing upon a British Army patrol investigating a bomb attack on a Customs Post near Newry, County Armagh

1972 Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government

1973 – Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On December 6, the House will confirm him 387–35).

1973 Neil Simon's play "Good Doctor" premieres in NYC

1973 US President Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, authorizing petroleum price, production, allocation and marketing controls

1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.

1977 "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Imperial NY after 66 performances

Harvey Milk at Gay Pride March
from whatwasthere.com
1978 – San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay City Supervisor Harvey Milk are shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor.

1978 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.

1980 Soyuz T-3 launched, carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station,

1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki

1983 – Avianca Flight 011: A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.

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.

1985 Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland

1986 Europa TV, a project of five European public service broadcasters ceases operations after exhausting its budget

1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney

1987 – On a routine flight between Taiwan and Mauritius, South African Airways Flight 295 experiences an in-flight fire, apparently starting at around 23:48 on the 27th. After just under 16 minutes (leading into the early hours of November 28), the plane crashes and kills all 159 on board.

1989 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

1989 – Avianca Flight 203: A Colombian Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel will claim responsibility for the attack.

1989 George Harrison releases music singles "Cheer Down" and "Poor Little Girl"

1989 Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay

1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space

1991 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.

1991 Musical "Peter Pan", starring Cathy Rigby, opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances

1991 Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba)

1992 – For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela.

1992 Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire

1994 Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed

1994 Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay

1997 – Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.

1999 – The left-wing Labour Party defeats the National-led government after 9 years in power, takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.

2000 – In the Canadian federal election the Liberal Party of Canada wins its third consecutive election with a gain in the number of its members.

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.

2005 – The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.

2005 President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-serving head of state in the world, is re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term

2006 Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic, resigns from his position as lifetime senator

2006 – The Canadian House of Commons approves a motion by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada.

2009 – Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.

2012 29 people are killed and 126 are wounded by 8 car bombings across Iraq

2012 The Eurozone announces that it will make loans of 43.7 billion euros to Greece

2013 "Frozen", the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released

2013 Greece becomes the first developed market to be demoted into an emerging market by the MSCI index

2015 "Holy grail" of shipwrecks the San Jose, sunk 1708, is confirmed found by an international team off the coast of Colombia

2015 Robert Lewis Dear (57) shots 3 dead and wounds 9 at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado

2017 8 Donkeys freed from jail after 4 days in Orai, Uttar Pradesh, India for eating plants

2017 Bangkok Fire and Rescue Department confirm it has had 31,801 call outs to deal with snakes this year

2017 Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce their engagement

2017 Freight trains kills more than 100 reindeer over three days in Norway

2017 North Korean ghost ship washes up Akita prefecture beach, Japan with 8 skeletons on board, 4th boat in a month

2017 Pope Francis begins a three-day trip to Myanmar, amid the Rohingya refugee crisis

2018 Convicted US murderer Samuel Little confirmed connected to 90 more murders of women after confessing details

2018 Explosion near chemical company in Hebei Province, Northern China kills at least 23, injuring 22

2018 US accuses Nicaragua's Vice-President Rosario Murillo, wife of President Daniel Ortega of human rights abuses and imposes sanctions

2019 Ghana celebrates the "year of return" marking 300 years since 1st African slave sold in America, by granting 125 people citizenship in special ceremony

2019 US President Donald Trump signs two bills backing Hong Kong protesters, which check the territories autonomy and ban the sale of munitions to Hong Kong police, angering China

2020 Iran's most senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh assassinated outside Tehran, escalating tensions in the region

2022 Albanian President Bajram Begaj grants citizenship to pop star Dua Lipa for promoting the country through her international fame and her musical talents



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Gregory, the Wonder-worker, Bishop of Neo-Caesarea in Pontus, Confessor.      Double.


Contemporary Western

Barlaam and Josaphat
Congar of Congresbury
Facundus and Primitivus
Francis Fasani
Humilis of Bisignano
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
Vergilius of Salzburg


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran



Eastern Orthodox

November 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Venerable Nathaniel of Nitria (375)
Venerable Moses
17 Monk-martyrs in India (4th century)
Venerable Pinuphrius of Egypt (4th century)
Great-Martyr James of Persia (421)
Venerable Romanus the Wonderworker of Cilicia (5th century)
Venerable Palladius of Thessalonica (6th-7th century)

Saints Facundus and Primitivus (c. 300)
Saint Valerian, Bishop of Aquileia in the north of Italy (389)
Saint John Angeloptes, Bishop of Ravenna in Italy 430-433 (433)
Saint Seachnall (Sechnall), first Bishop of Dunsauglin
      in Meath in Ireland and later served in Armagh (457)
Saint Maximus of Riez, Abbot of Lérins Abbey in France in 426,
      he became Bishop of Riez (460)
Saint Congar of Congresbury, Bishop of Somerset (520)
Saint Siffred of Carpentras (Siffrein, Syffroy, Suffredus), a monk at Lérins Abbey
      and later Bishop of Carpentras in the south of France (c. 540)
Saint Severinus, a hermit who lived near Paris in France (c. 540)
Saint Gallgo, founder of Llanallgo in Anglesey in Wales (6th century)
Saint Acharius, Bishop of Noyon-Tournai in Belgium (640)
Saint Bilihildis, foundress of the convent of Altenmünster in Mainz (c. 710)
Saint Fergus, born in Ireland, he was a bishop who preached among the Picts
      in Perthshire, Caithness, Buchan and Forfarshire in Scotland (c. 721)
Saint Vergilius of Salzburg (Fergal), Abbot of St Peter's in Salzburg and Bishop,
      the Apostle of Carinthia (784)
Saint Apollinaris, fourteenth Abbot of Montecassino Abbey in Italy,
      abbot for eleven years (828)

Venerable Theodosius of Tarnovo (1363)
Saint James, Bishop and Wonderworker of Rostov (1392)
Saint Damaskinos the Studite, Bishop of Liti and Rendini (1577)
Venerable Diodorus, Abbot of Yuriev Monastery (George Hill), Solovki (1633)
Blessed Andrei (Ogorodnikov) of Simbirsk (1841)

New Hieromartyr Nicholas, Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal (1937)
New Hieromartyrs (1937):
      Protopresbyters Nicholas Andreyev, Boris Ivanosky,
            and Basil Sokolov, of Moscow;
      Priests Alexei Speransky of Moscow, John Glazkov of Alma-Ata,
            and Theodore Dorofiev of Moscow;
      Priests Sergius, John Khrustalev, Sergius, Nicholas;
      Archimandrite Cronides of Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra;
      Hieromonks Ioasaf[note 18] and Nicholas of Moscow;
      Xenophon, Alexei Gavrin,[note 19] Appolos Fedoseyev, Seraphim and Nikon (1937)
Martyr John Emelyanov (1937)

Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos "of the Sign"
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Kursk Root" (1295)
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "of Abalek" in Siberia (1637)
Icon of the Mother of God of Tsarskoe Selo (1753)
Icon of the Mother of God "Seraphim-Ponetaevka" (1879)

Commemoration of the miracle of the Weeping Icon of the Most Holy
      Theotokos "Of the Sign" at Novgorod in 1170
Uncovering of the relics (1192) of St. Vsevolod (Gabriel) of Pskov (1138)
Repose of Hieromonk Athanasius of Iveron Monastery (1973)


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