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Events on November 27

• 1095 At the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II calls for a crusade to the Holy Land in an impassioned speech. During his sermon, the crowd responds with Deus lo vult (“God wills it”).
• 1582 The marriage banns for the 18-year-old William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway are issued.
• 1895 Alfred Nobel signs his will and bequeaths his fortune to a foundation, which today awards the Nobel Prizes.
• 1926 The dance pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin by Béla Bartók is premiered in Cologne. Alleged immorality prompts the then mayor of Cologne, Konrad Adenauer, to ban further performances.
• 1944 The city center of Freiburg im Breisgau is almost completely destroyed by a bombing raid as part of Operation Tigerfish. Freiburg Minster remains unscathed as if by a miracle.
• 1958 The Soviet Union issues its Berlin Ultimatum to the Western powers, demanding the conversion of West Berlin into a Free City and the withdrawal of the Western Allies.
• 1961 One day after a newspaper article reporting the suspicion that it was responsible for deformities in newborns, Grünenthal GmbH takes the thalidomide-containing drug Contergan off the market.
• 1990 In the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, active and passive suffrage for women is introduced by a decision of the Federal Supreme Court, making it the last Swiss canton to do so after the (male) voters had rejected it at the Landsgemeinde on 29 April.
• 2000 In Norway, the longest road tunnel in the world, the 24.5-kilometre Lærdal Tunnel between Aurland and Lærdal, is opened. This creates a continuous, all-weather road connection from Oslo to Bergen.
• 2001 FC Bayern München defeats Boca Juniors Buenos Aires 1:0 after extra time to win the World Cup for the second time since 1976.
• 2005 In Amiens, doctors Jean-Michel Dubernard and Bernard Devauchelle succeed in performing the first face transplant. The patient is Isabelle Dinoire, whose face was completely disfigured by a dog attack.
• 2016 Nico Rosberg secures the Formula 1 World Championship at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Born on November 27

• 1850 Helene von Mülinen, Swiss women's rights activist
• 1921 Alexander Dubček, Czechoslovak and Slovak politician
• 1930 Reinhard Glemnitz, German actor and voice actor
• 1940 Bruce Lee, American actor and kung fu legend
• 1951 Kathryn Bigelow, American film director
• 1952 Gert Steinbäcker, Austrian musician
• 1960 Eike Immel, German football player
• 1960 Julija Tymoschenko, Ukrainian politician
• 1961 Norbert Dickel, German football player
• 2001 Kevin Schade, German football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „27. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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