27 November History
- 43 BC - Octavian, Antony and Lepidus form the triumvirate of Rome.
- 511 - Clovis, king of the Franks, dies and his kingdom is divided between his four sons.
- 1095 - In Clermont, France, Pope Urbana II makes an appeal for warriors to relieve Jerusalem. He is responding to false rumors of atrocities in the Holy Land.
- 1382 - The French nobility, led by Olivier de Clisson, crush the Flemish rebels at Flanders.
- 1812 - One of the two bridges being used by Napoleon Bonaparte's army across the Beresina River in Russia collapses during a Russian artillery barrage.
- 1826 - Jebediah Smith's expedition reaches San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the southwestern part of the continent.
- 1862 - George Armstrong Custer meets his future bride, Elizabeth Bacon, at a Thanksgiving party.
- 1868 - Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's 7th Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River.
- 1887 - U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton, brother of the three famous outlaws, is killed in the line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark.
- 1904 - The German colonial army defeats Hottentots at Warm bad in southwest Africa.
- 1909 - U.S. troops land in Blue fields, Nicaragua, to protect American interests there.
- 1919 - Bulgaria signs peace treaty with Allies at Unequally, France, fixing war reparations and recognizing Yugoslavian independence.
- 1922 - Allied delegates bar the Soviets from the Near East peace conference.
- 1936 - Great Britain's Anthony Eden warns Hitler that Britain will fight to protect Belgium.
- 1942 - The French fleet in Toulon is scuttled to keep it from Germany.
- 1950 - East of the Choosing River, Chinese forces annihilate an American task force.
- 1954 - Alger Hiss, convicted of being a Soviet spy, is freed after 44 months in prison.
- 1959 - Demonstrators march in Tokyo to protest a defense treaty with the United States.
- 1967 - Lyndon Johnson appoints Robert McNamara to presidency of the World Bank.
- 1967 - Charles DeGaulle vetoes Great Britain's entry into the Common Market again.
- 1970 - Syria joins the pact linking Libya, Egypt and Sudan.
27 November Birthdays
- 1701 - Anders Celsius, astronomer who devised the centigrade temperature scale.
- 1870 - Joe Mack, builder of gasoline-powered delivery wagons which eventually evolved into the Mack Truck Company.
- 1874 - Charles A. Beard, distinguished American historian who wrote History of the United States.
- 1909 - James Agee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (A Death in the Family).
- 1942 - Jimi Hendrix, rock musician.