27 November History


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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.