Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 27

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This is a list of selected November 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Artist's impression of HD 209458 b
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
First Eddystone Lighthouse
Harvey Milk
Artist's impression of planet HD 209458 b
Colonial Williamsburg view of Duke of Gloucester Street

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
511 – Upon the death of Clovis, King of the Franks, Gaul was divided among his four sons: Theuderic, Chlodomer, Childebert, and Chlothar.	exact date unknown
1815 – As specified by the Congress of Vienna, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland was signed for the newly recreated Polish state that was under Russian control.	too much uncited
1868 – American Indian Wars: George Armstrong Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked the encampment of Chief Black Kettle and the Cheyenne on the Washita River near present-day Cheyenne, Oklahoma.	lead too short
1919 – The first fraternity exclusively for collegiate band members, Kappa Kappa Psi, was founded on the campus of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.	primary sources - see FAR
1926 – Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg, a recreation of a Colonial American city in the Historic Triangle on the Virginia Peninsula, began.	lots of CN tags (34)
1934 – American gangster Baby Face Nelson was shot dead by FBI agents outside Chicago.	refimprove section
1940 – Second World War: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engaged the Regia Marina near Sicily.	unreferenced section
1971 – The Soviet space orbiter Mars 2 became the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars when it malfunctioned and crashed onto the planet's surface.	refimprove
1975 – Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army assassinated Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, a few weeks after he offered a £50,000 reward for information leading to a conviction for several recent high-profile bombings that were publicly claimed by the IRA.	refimprove
1978 – San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by supervisor Dan White.	Too much uncited
1978 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has been in conflict with Turkey over the formation of an autonomous Kurdish state, was founded.	outdated
2005 – French oral and maxillofacial surgeon Bernard Devauchelle performed the world's first partial face transplant on a living human, replacing Isabelle Dinoire's face, which had been mutilated by her dog.	expansion
Horace \|d\|8 BC\|	Deathday not cited

Eligible

1095 – At the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade, declaring holy war against the Muslims who had occupied the Holy Land and were attacking the Eastern Roman Empire.
1161 – A Song dynasty fleet defeated Jin ships in a naval engagement on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
1703 – The great storm of 1703, one of the most severe storms to strike southern Great Britain, destroyed the first Eddystone Lighthouse off Plymouth.
1895 – Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (pictured) signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.
1943 – World War II: Australian forces began the Battle of Wareo by conducting clearing operations between Bonga and North Hill.
1944 – Between 3,500 and 4,000 tonnes of ordnance exploded at the RAF Fauld underground munitions storage depot in the largest non-nuclear explosion in the United Kingdom.
1945 – A consortium of twenty-two U.S. charities founded CARE with the mission of delivering food aid to Europe in the aftermath of World War II.
1950 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army launched multiple attacks against United Nations forces, beginning the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
1989 – A bomb placed by the Medellín Cartel in an attempt to kill Colombian presidential candidate César Gaviria destroyed Avianca Flight 203, killing 110 people, but Gaviria was not on the flight.
1991 – Operations at the Reagan Test Site were disrupted due to the nearby formation of Tropical Storm Zelda.
1999 – The Labour Party defeated the governing National Party in the New Zealand general election, with Labour's Helen Clark becoming the country's first female prime minister to have won office at an election.
2001 – Astronomers announced the detection of sodium in the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD 209458 b (artist's impression pictured), the first exoplanet atmosphere to be measured.
2009 – A bomb exploded under, and derailed, a Russian high-speed train travelling between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, killing 28 passengers.
2020 – Nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, regarded as the chief of Iran's nuclear program, was assassinated, allegedly by Mossad.
Born/died: | Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon |b|1635| Increase Sumner |b|1746| Georg Forster |b|1754| Rachel Brooks Gleason |b|1820| Ada Lovelace |d|1852| William Bliss Baker |b|1859| Charles A. Beard |b|1874| Arthur Sullivan |b|1896| Jean Albert Gaudry |d|1908| Glynn Lunney |b|1936| May Gibbs |d|1969| Gary Speed |d|2011 Phillip Hughes |d|2014

November 27: Thanksgiving in the United States (2025)

William III

1835 – James Pratt and John Smith became the last people to be executed in England for sodomy.
1856 – William III (pictured) unilaterally revised the constitution of Luxembourg, greatly expanding his powers as grand duke.
1963 – President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered the "Let Us Continue" speech, in which he advocated for civil-rights legislation and national cohesion, to a joint session of the U.S. Congress five days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
2009 – Lady Gaga performed the first concert of The Monster Ball Tour, which became the highest-grossing tour in history for a debut headlining artist.

Jacopo Mazzoni (b. 1548)
Katherine Sleeper Walden (b. 1862)
Harvey Milk (d. 1978)
Harrie Massey (d. 1983)

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