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27 November, 2006

The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harpers motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada

27 November, 2005

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

27 November, 2001

A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

27 November, 1999

The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealands history.

27 November, 1997

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

27 November, 1992

For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.

27 November, 1991

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

27 November, 1990

The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

27 November, 1983

A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Madrids Barajas Airport, killing 183.

27 November, 1978

In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.

27 November, 1975

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

27 November, 1973

The Twenty-fifth Amendment: 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).

27 November, 1971

Mars 2 of the Soviet space program landed on Mars.

27 November, 1965

Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. 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.

27 November, 1963

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

27 November, 1960

Gordie Howe was the first player to reach the NHL landmark of 1000 points.

27 November, 1954

Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.

27 November, 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".

27 November, 1944

world War II: An explosion at a RAF ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.

27 November, 1942

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

27 November, 1940

In Romania, General Ion Antonescus Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romanias aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.

27 November, 1940

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

27 November, 1934

Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.

27 November, 1924

In New York City the first Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

27 November, 1919

Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

27 November, 1912

Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.

27 November, 1901

U.S. Army War College is established.

27 November, 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.

27 November, 1868

Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River - United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.

27 November, 1863

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

27 November, 1839

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

27 November, 1703

The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.

27 November, 1295

The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".

27 November, 1095

Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.

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