November 27 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 Turtle Protection Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – Great Heroes Day.
🇨🇺 Cuba – Medical Students’ Remembrance Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Assessor’s Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – National Health Day.
🇻🇪 Venezuela – Aviation Day.
🇪🇸 Spain – Teachers’ Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Sailor’s Day.
🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands – 1949 Great March and Restoration Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 602 – Byzantine Emperor Maurice and his 5 sons were beheaded, their bodies were thrown into the sea, and their severed heads were displayed in Constantinople.
– 1095 – Pope Urban II announces the beginning of the First Crusade in a speech in the city of Clermont.
– 1671 – Astrakhan is liberated from the rebels.
– 1895 – Alfred Nobel wills his estate to be donated to the Nobel Prize Fund.
– 1895 – Famous French writer Alexandre Dumas dies at the age of 71.
– 1912 – Morocco becomes a dependent state of Spain.
– 1917 – The 4th Extraordinary Congress of Muslims of Turkestan declares the establishment of Turkestan autonomy.
– 1918 – The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences is established.
– 1950 – The 4-day Kunuri War begins in Korea.
– 1971 – The Soviet space program’s first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars, Mars 2, is launched.
– 1978 – The Kurdistan Workers’ Party is founded in Turkey.
– 1983 – A Boeing 727 crashes at Madrid airport, killing 181 people.
– 1989 – A Boeing 727 explodes over Colombia, killing 107 people.
– 1991 – The UN Security Council adopts Resolution 727 authorizing the deployment of peacekeeping forces in Yugoslavia.
– 1997 – 25 people are killed in the Souhani massacre in Algeria.
– 1997 – The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan adopted a Resolution “On the celebration of the 1200th anniversary of the birth of Ahmad al-Farghani”.
– 1992 – Helen Clark became the first female president in the history of New Zealand.
– 1992 – President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov met with President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Jacques Attali.
– 2002 – President Islam Karimov met with NATO Secretary General George Robertson in Prague.
– 2003 – Anniversary celebrations dedicated to the births of Abdulkholiq Gijduvani and Bahauddin Naqshband were held.
– 2006 – The Nevsky Express train between Moscow and St. Petersburg killed 28 people.
– 2020 – Iranian physicist and IRGC officer Mohsen Fakhrizode was killed.
