November 1, 1927 (Tuesday)

• The first communist government in China was proclaimed by Peng Pai
  Peng Pai
  Peng Pai born in Haifeng County , Guangdong Province, China, was a pioneerIn the Preface, the author called Peng Pai "the father of Chinese rural communism"...
  
  , encompassing the counties of Haifeng
  Haifeng
  Haifeng County is a county of Shanwei prefecture, southeastern Guangdong province, Southern china.The people there speak a Teochew dialect related to Hoklo and Hakka....
  
   and Lufeng
  Lufeng
  Lufeng City is a county-level city in the Shanwei municipal region, Guangdong, on the South China Sea coast, east of Hong Kong.Lufeng City is situated next to the county of Haifeng ; the area is sometimes conjointly referred to as Hailufeng.-Demography:It has a population of 1.7 million, the...
  
   near Hong Kong
  Hong Kong
  Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
  
  . The "Haifeng Soviet of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers" was created three weeks later, but Nationalist Chinese troops recaptured the area four months later.
• The first currency for the British Mandate in Palestine, the "Palestine pound", was introduced. After the creation of Israel and the independence of Jordan, and a redemption offer, the Palestinian pound ceased to be legal tender after 1952.
• Died: Florence Mills
  Florence Mills
  Florence Mills, born Florence Winfrey , known as the "Queen of Happiness," was an African American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian known for her effervescent stage presence, delicate voice, and winsome, wide-eyed beauty.-Life and career:A daughter of former enslaved parents, Nellie and John...
  
  , 32, African-American performer, of a burst appendix; and Karl Plauth
  Karl Plauth
  Leutnant Karl Plauth was a World War I flying ace credited with 17 aerial victories. After being wounded during the Battle of Verdun, he transferred to flying service. After a stint in FA 204, an artillery cooperation unit, he was assigned to fly a Fokker D.VII with Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 20 on...
  
  , 31, aircraft designer and World War One ace who had downed 17 planes for Germany; in a flying accident;

November 2, 1927 (Wednesday)

• The Soviet Communist Party declared an amnesty for former White Army officers.
• American native T.S. Eliot became a naturalized British citizen.
• Born: Steve Ditko
  Steve Ditko
  Stephen J. "Steve" Ditko is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the artist co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange....
  
  , American comic-book writer and artist, co-creator of Spider-Man
  Spider-Man
  Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...
  
  ; in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
  Johnstown, Pennsylvania
  Johnstown is a city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, west-southwest of Altoona, Pennsylvania and east of Pittsburgh. The population was 20,978 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Cambria County...
  
  

November 3, 1927 (Thursday)

• Rainfall began in Vermont, continuing into the next day, claiming its first victims. Described as the "worst natural disaster in the state's history". The final death toll was 132 people, of which 114 were in Vermont.
• Forty people were killed at the Sydney Harbour when the steamer Tahiti struck the passenger ferry Greycliffe.
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the...
  
  , by Thornton Wilder
  Thornton Wilder
  Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day.-Early years:Wilder was born in Madison,...
  
  , was first published in the United States. The first run of 4,500 copies was priced at $2.50 and sold out within a month.
• The Rodgers and Hart
  Rodgers and Hart
  Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership of composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist Lorenz Hart...
  
   musical A Connecticut Yankee, based on Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
  
  , was first performed, at the Vanderbilt Theater on Broadway.

November 4, 1927 (Friday)

• A cyclone struck the town of Nellore
  Nellore
  Nellore , is a city and headquarters of Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District, formerly Nellore district.And in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Ancient name of Nellore was "Vikrama Simhapuri"....
  
  , 98 miles northwest of Madras in India, killing almost 300 people.
• Captain Hawthorne C. Gray, who had reached a record altitude of 42,470 feet (12,945 meters) in a balloon on May 4
  May 1927
  January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - DecemberThe following events occurred in May 1927.-May 1, 1927 :...
  
  , attempted to set an official record. Because his timer failed, he ran out of bottled oxygen while at an altitude of 40,000 feet, lost consciousness, and died. His body, and the balloon, were found in a tree near Sparta, Tennessee
  Sparta, Tennessee
  Sparta is a city in White County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 4,599 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of White County. It was the hometown of Lester Flatt of the bluegrass music legends Flatt and Scruggs.-Geography:...
  
  , the next day.
• Legalized and state regulated prostitution in Germany, known as the "Bremen System", was abolished.
• A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck off of the coast of Lompoc, California
  Lompoc, California
  Lompoc is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. The city was incorporated in 1888. The population was 42,434 at the 2010 census, up from 41,103 at the 2000 census....
  
  , causing damage there and at Guadalupe and Arroyo Grande, but no injuries.
• Born: Bobby Breen
  Bobby Breen
  Bobby Breen is a Canadian-born actor and singer of the 1930s. He made his professional debut at age four in a night club in Toronto and was an immediate sensation. He made his radio debut soon after. He played in vaudeville and his sister paid for his musical education. Breen went to Hollywood in...
  
  , child movie star and singer, as Robert Borsuk in Montreal
  Montreal
  Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
  
  

November 5, 1927 (Saturday)

• The Saturday Evening Post published the article "The Seeing Eye", written by Dorothy Harrison Eustis
  Dorothy Harrison Eustis
  Dorothy Leib Harrison Wood Eustis was an American dog breeder and philanthropist, who founded The Seeing Eye, the first guide-dog school for the blind in the United States....
  
  , introducing Americans to the news from Germany about dogs trained to assist blind veterans. Morris Frank, a 20-year old blind man in Nashville, wrote back to Eustis, who was inspired to train the first American seeing eye dog
  Seeing Eye Dog
  Seeing Eye Dog is the seventh studio album by Helmet, released on September 7, 2010 via Work Song, the label imprint shared by singer/songwriter Joe Henry and Helmet mainman Page Hamilton's manager...
  
   in the United States. Frank began using the dog the following April, and training of dogs began in the U.S. in February 1929.
• A three story building in Shanghai
  Shanghai
  Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
  
   collapsed during a meeting of female textile workers who were gathering to form a labor union. Reportedly, the women had just elected officers when the third floor collapsed, bringing down the building.
• Alfredo Jauregui, one of several persons convicted of the assassination in 1917 of Bolivian President Jose Manuel Pando
  José Manuel Pando
  José Manuel Inocencio Pando Solares was President of Bolivia between October 1899 and August 1904. Born in Luribay , he studied medicine, joined the army during the War of the Pacific against Chile , and later dedicated himself to exploring his country's vast and thinly populated lowland forests...
  
  , was executed by firing squad. He had been chosen, by lottery, to serve as lone conspirator to receive the death penalty. "Chosen by Lot, Then Slayer Is Executed", November 6, 1927, p1
• The Ikhwan Revolt
  Ikhwan Revolt
  The Ikhwan Revolt had begun in 1927, when elements of the Ikhwan, the radical irregular tribesmen of Arabia, undermined the authority of Ibn Saud and begun raiding neighbouring Iraq and Kuwait. The relations between the House of Saud and the Ikhwans deteriorated into an open bloody feud in December...
  
   began in Saudi Arabia when a party of Berber tribesmen, the Ikhwan
  Ikhwan
  The Ikhwan was the Islamic religious militia which formed the main military force of the Arabian ruler Ibn Saud and played a key role in establishing him as ruler of most of the Arabian Peninsula, in his new state of Saudi Arabia. The Ikhwan were made up of Bedouin tribes...
  
   attacked and killed foreign construction workers and policemen who had been working on a police post in Busaiya.
• Died: Marceline Orbes, 53, who, as "Marceline the Clown", was world-renowned during the late 19th and early 20th century; by suicide; and Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke
  Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke
  ' was an American and the first woman to be an intern in a Parisian hospital. She married Joseph Jules Dejerine and was known for a treatise about neuroanatomyKlumpke paralysis is named for her.-Further reading:...
  
  , 68, pioneering neurologist who had been the first woman to become a member of the Societe de Neurologie

November 6, 1927 (Sunday)

• The Italian Army became the first to make a mass drop of parachutists, as troops bailed out of airplanes near Milan, to landing at Cinisello Balsamo.

November 7, 1927 (Monday)

• The last anti-government protests (until 1991) in the Soviet Union took place on the tenth anniversary of the Communist victory in Russia, when the annual parade was joined by another group of marchers demonstrating against First Secretary Joseph Stalin. Government police broke up the protests, and Leon Trotsky
  Leon Trotsky
  Leon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....
  
  , Grigory Zinoviev
  Grigory Zinoviev
  Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev , born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky Apfelbaum , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician...
  
  , and Lev Kamenev
  Lev Kamenev
  Lev Borisovich Kamenev , born Rozenfeld , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was briefly head of state of the new republic in 1917, and from 1923-24 the acting Premier in the last year of Lenin's life....
  
   were condemned for organizing an opposition.
• Pope Pius XI
  Pope Pius XI
  Pope Pius XI , born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was Pope from 6 February 1922, and sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929 until his death on 10 February 1939...
  
  , answering the request of an American Roman Catholic bishop, gave his blessing for marriages performed in airplanes. A spokesman for the Vatican quoted the Pope as saying, "Provided other ecclesiastical formalities are complied with, there is no reason to prohibit these marriages."

November 8, 1927 (Tuesday)

• The membership of the Simon Commission
  Simon Commission
  The Indian Statutory Commission was a group of seven British Members of Parliament that had been dispatched to India in 1927 to study constitutional reform in Britain's most important colonial dependency. It was commonly referred to as the Simon Commission after its chairman, Sir John Simon...
  
  , chaired by Sir John Simon to review India's fitness for self-government, was announced, and, as one Indian author would later note, "in an incredible act of racial arrogance the British government had decided that all seven would be whites", on the recommendation of the Viceroy, Lord Irwin. In addition to Simon were Viscount Burnham, Lord Strathcona, Edward Cadogan, Clement Attlee, Vernon Hartshorn and Colonel George Lane-Fox.
• After having been banned from public speaking since his attempted "Beer Hall Putsch", German politician Adolf Hitler
  Adolf Hitler
  Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
  
   was allowed to speak at the Burgerbraukeller in Munich.
• Born: Si Newhouse, American publishing magnate, in New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
  ; Patti Page
  Patti Page
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...
  
  , American singer, known for "Tennessee Waltz" and "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?
  (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?
  " That Doggie in the Window?" is a popular novelty song written by Bob Merrill and Ingrid Reuterskiöld in 1952. The best-known version of the song was recorded by Patti Page on December 18, 1952 and released by Mercury Records as catalog number 70070, with the flip side being "My Jealous Eyes". It...
  
  ", as Clara Ann Fowler in Claremore, Oklahoma
  Claremore, Oklahoma
  Claremore is a city and the county seat of Rogers County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 18,581 at the 2010 census, a 17.1 percent increase from 15,873 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area and home to Rogers State University...
  
  ; Chris Connor
  Chris Connor
  Chris Connor was an American jazz singer.-Biography:She was born as Mary Loutsenhizer in Kansas City, Missouri to Clyde and Mabel Loutsenhizer. She studied and became proficient on the clarinet, having studied for 8 years throughout junior high and high school...
  
  , American jazz singer, as Mary Loutsenhizer in Kansas City, Missouri
  Kansas City, Missouri
  Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
  
   (d. 2009); Lal Krishna Advani
  Lal Krishna Advani
  Lal Kishanchand Advani known as Lal Krishna Advani is a Veteran Indian politician. A former president of the Bharatiya Janata Party , which is currently the major opposition party in the Indian Parliament. He also served as a Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004...
  
  , the last Deputy Prime Minister of India
  Deputy Prime Minister of India
  The Deputy Prime Minister of India is a member of the Indian cabinet in the Indian government. The post is not a constitutional post and seldom carries any specific powers. Generally a Deputy Prime Minister also holds other key portfolios like Home minister or Finance Minister...
  
   (2002–04) and opposition leader in the Lok Sabha
  Lok Sabha
  The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...
  
   (2004–09), in Karachi
  Karachi
  Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...
  
  , British India

November 9, 1927 (Wednesday)

• Rebellion broke out in Lithuania
  Lithuania
  Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
  
   at the city of Taurage
  Taurage
  Tauragė is an industrial city in Lithuania, and the capital of Tauragė County. In 2011, its population was 26,444. Tauragė is situated on the Jūra River, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast, and not far from the Baltic Sea coast....
  
   by citizens dissatisfied with the regime of President Antanas Smetona
  Antanas Smetona
  Antanas Smetona was one of the most important Lithuanian political figures between World War I and World War II. He served as the first President of Lithuania from April 4, 1919 to June 19, 1920. He again served as the last President of the country from December 19, 1926 to June 15, 1940, before...
  
   regime. Ultimately, 209 people were convicted of charges arising from the insurrection, and eleven were executed.

November 10, 1927 (Thursday)

• General Motors
  General Motors
  General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...
  
   declared the largest dividend
  Dividend
  Dividends are payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members. It is the portion of corporate profits paid out to stockholders. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, that money can be put to two uses: it can either be re-invested in the business , or it can be distributed to...
  
   in history up to that time, paying a total of $3.75 per share on each of its 17,400,000 shares for a total of $65,250,000 to its investors. The money paid represented the regular quarterly dividend of $1.25, plus an additional $2.50. "
• The gunboat USS Panay
  USS Panay (PR-5)
  |-External links:* * *...
  
   and the submarine USS Argonaut were both launched. The Panay would be attacked and sunk by Japanese aircraft on December 12, 1937, slightly less than four years before America's entry into World War II, while the Argonaut would be sunk by the Japanese in 1943.
• Born: Sabah
  Sabah (singer)
  Sabah , Wadi Chahrour, Lebanon is a Lebanese singer and actress.She has released over 50 albums and has acted in 98 movies, as well as 20 stage plays...
  
  , Lebanese singer and actress, as Jeanette Gergi Feghali in Beirut
  Beirut
  Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
  
  

November 11, 1927 (Friday)

• France
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
   and Yugoslavia
  Yugoslavia
  Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
  
   signed a treaty of amity and arbitration. Although it had no military significance, the Franco-Yugoslavian treaty angered the Italian government, which signed a defense treaty with Albania on November 22.
• Born: Mose Allison
  Mose Allison
  Mose John Allison, Jr. is an American jazz blues pianist and singer.-Biography:...
  
  , American jazz pianist, in Tippo, Mississippi
  Tippo, Mississippi
  Tippo is an unincorporated community located in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States. Tippo is approximately from Swan Lake, northeast of Glendora and approximately from Charleston. Tippo is located at the intersection of Tippo Road and Sharkey Road.Although it is unincorporated,...
  
  
• Died: Frances Gardiner Davenport, American author and expert on treaties

November 12, 1927 (Saturday)

• The Holland Tunnel
  Holland Tunnel
  The Holland Tunnel is a highway tunnel under the Hudson River connecting the island of Manhattan in New York City with Jersey City, New Jersey at Interstate 78 on the mainland. Unusual for an American public works project, it is not named for a government official, politician, or local hero or...
  
  , running underneath the Hudson River
  Hudson River
  The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...
  
   between Jersey City, New Jersey and Canal Street in Manhattan, was opened at 5:00 pm to the public. Over the next two hours, 20,000 people walked through it before it was opened to traffic at midnight. President Coolidge pressed a button that rang a large brass bell at the entrance. At midnight, pedestrians were permanently barred from the tunnel, and cars began driving through from Jersey City.
• Mahatma Gandhi
  Mahatma Gandhi
  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...
  
   made his first and last visit to Ceylon.
• Born: Yutaka Taniyama
  Yutaka Taniyama
  Yutaka Taniyama was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture.-Contribution:...
  
  , Japanese mathematician who postulated the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture ("every elliptic curve defined over the rational field is a factor of the Jacobian of a modular function field"), referred to as the modularity theorem; in Kisai (committed suicide, 1958)
• Died: Father Margarito Flores, 28 was executed by a firing squad as part of the anti-clerical persecution of Mexican President Plutarco Calles. Flores would be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint in 2000.

November 13, 1927 (Sunday)

• Mindogon Mgboundoulou, father of 6-year old Jean-Bedel Bokassa
  Jean-Bédel Bokassa
  Jean-Bédel Bokassa , a military officer, was the head of state of the Central African Republic and its successor state, the Central African Empire, from his coup d'état on 1 January 1966 until 20 September 1979...
  
  , was beaten to death after releasing persons being detained by the Compagnie Forestiere de la Sangha-Oubangi. Bokassa's mother, Marie Yokowo, killed herself a week later. "[I]t would be no exaggeration to say that [Bokassa] learned the art of violence at an early age from some of its most seasoned practitioners," one author would note later. Bokassa would oversee the murder of thousands of his countrymen as leader of the Central African Republic
  Central African Republic
  The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the north east, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about ,...
  
  .
• An attempt was made on the life of Mexican presidential candidate, General Alvaro Obregon, by a group of Cristeros, Christian clerics who had been persecuted by the government. Two bombs were thrown at his car, and he was slightly cut by glass from the windshield. Father Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez was later executed for the crime.

November 14, 1927 (Monday)

• Pittsburgh Gasometer Explosion
  Pittsburgh Gasometer Explosion
  The Pittsburgh gasometer explosion, or Equitable Gas explosion, was a bizarre accident that took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the morning of November 14, 1927. A huge cylindrical gasometer, the largest in the world at that time, developed a leak, and repairmen were sent to fix it. The...
  
  : At 8:45 a.m., a natural gas storage tank of the Equitable Gas Company in the North Side
  Northside (Pittsburgh)
  North Side refers to the region of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, located to the north of the Allegheny River and the Ohio River...
  
   of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
  
   exploded, killing 26 people.
• The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party voted to expel both Trotsky and Zinoviev from membership, along with 81 of their associates. The resolution became effective on December 2, when the Fifteenth Congress of the CPSU purged 93 other Party members associated with the "Trotsky-Zinoviev faction".
• Born: McLean Stevenson
  McLean Stevenson
  Edgar McLean Stevenson, Jr. , better known as McLean Stevenson, was an American actor most recognized for his role as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the TV series M*A*S*H...
  
  , American TV actor, in Normal, Illinois
  Normal, Illinois
  Normal is an incorporated town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. It had a population of 52,497 as of the 2010 census. Normal is the smaller of two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area...
  
   (d. 1996)

November 15, 1927 (Tuesday)

• Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's musical Show Boat was given its pre-Broadway tryout, at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. It would open on Broadway on December 27. Because the production ran too long, 90 minutes was cut. Legend has it that the most famous number in Show Boat, the song "Ol' Man River", was almost removed.
• The most regular outbursting comet, 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, was discovered by astronomers Arno Wachmann and Arnold Schwassmann.

November 16, 1927 (Wednesday)

• The USS Saratoga
  USS Saratoga (CV-3)
  USS Saratoga was the second aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the fifth ship to bear her name. She was commissioned one month earlier than her sister and class leader, , which is the third actually commissioned after and Saratoga...
  
  , the second United States Navy aircraft carrier, was commissioned. After World War II, the Saratoga was sunk in an atomic test on July 25, 1946
  July 1946
  January - February - March - April – May - June - July - August - September - October - November - DecemberThe following events occurred in July 1946:-July 1, 1946 :...
  
  .
• Died: Adolph Joffe
  Adolph Joffe
  Adolph Abramovich Joffe was a Communist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat of Karaim descent.-Revolutionary career:...
  
  , 44, Soviet diplomat, committed suicide four days after the expulsion of his ally, Leon Trotsky, from the Communist Party.
• Died: Tiger Flowers
  Tiger Flowers
  Theodore Flowers became the first African-American middleweight boxing champion, defeating Harry Greb in 1926. Known as "Tiger", he began boxing professionally in 1918 at the age of 23 while working at a Philadelphia shipbuilding plant...
  
  , 32, former middleweight boxing champion, following minor surgery for a growth above his eye. Four days earlier, he had knocked out Leo Gates in four rounds in a bout in New York.

November 17, 1927 (Thursday)

• President Coolidge declared in a speech to the Union League of Philadelphia that America was "entering upon a new era of prosperity". Less than two years later, the stock market would crash, and
• The Mexican Supreme Court voided enforcement of a 1925 law that had abrogated a 1923 agreement between the U.S. and Mexico that had allowed drilling for oil
• Born: Fenella Fielding
  Fenella Fielding
  Fenella Fielding — "England's first lady of the double entendre" — is an English actress, popular in the 1950s and 1960s. She is known for her seductive image and distinctively husky voice.-Family:...
  
  , English comedienne, in London
• Died: Moulay Youssef
  Yusef of Morocco
  Sultan Yusef ben Hassan ruled Morocco from 1912 until his death in 1927. Born in the city of Meknes to Sultan Hassan I, he inherited the throne from his brother, Sultan Abdelhafid, who abdicated after the Treaty of Fez , which made Morocco a French protectorate. He was a member of the Alaouite...
  
  , 45, Sultan of Morocco. General Mougin, French Director of the Moroccan military, supported Prince Idris, Youssef's eldest son, as the successor, while the Grand Vizier, Mohammed El Mokri, supported Youssef's youngest son, Sidi Mohammed, who won out and was crowned Mohammed V
  Mohammed V of Morocco
  Mohammed V was Sultan of Morocco from 1927–53, exiled from 1953–55, where he was again recognized as Sultan upon his return, and King from 1957 to 1961. His full name was Sidi Mohammed ben Yusef, or Son of Yusef, upon whose death he succeeded to the throne...
  
  .

November 18, 1927 (Friday)

• President Coolidge commuted the prison sentence of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey
  Marcus Garvey
  Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH was a Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League...
  
  , who had been convicted of defrauding contributors in raising funds for his "Back to Africa" movement. After his release, Garvey, a native of Jamaica, was deported from the U.S. onboard the ship SS Saramacca.
• Humphrey Bogart
  Humphrey Bogart
  Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema....
  
   and fellow actor Helen Menken
  Helen Menken
  Helen Menken was an American actress, born Helen Meinken to a German-French father, Frederick Meinken, and an Irish-born mother, Mary Madden....
  
   were divorced, 18 months after their May 20, 1926, marriage, after she alleged cruelty and at least two occasions of battery. However, the two re-established their friendship even after Bogart remarried.
• Born: Hank Ballard
  Hank Ballard
  Hank Ballard , born John Henry Kendricks, was a rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, the lead vocalist of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters and one of the first proto-rock 'n' roll artists to emerge in the early 1950s...
  
  , American musician and songwriter best known as author of "The Twist
  The Twist (song)
  "The Twist" is a twelve bar blues song that gave birth to the Twistdance craze. The song was written and originally released in 1959 by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side but his version was only a moderate 1960 hit, peaking at 28 on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
  "; 1990 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is dedicated to archiving the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers and others who have, in some major way,...
  
  ; as John Henry Kendricks (d. 2003)

November 19, 1927 (Saturday)

• The first Phillips 66
  Phillips 66
  Phillips 66 is a brand of gasoline and service station in the U.S. It is owned by the ConocoPhillips Company.Phillips 66 will also be the name of the future downstream company created when ConocoPhillips repositions its integrated assets and businesses into two independent, publicly-traded...
  
   service station was opened, inaugurating the chain of gasoline and auto repair centers at Wichita, Kansas
  Wichita, Kansas
  Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area...
  
  . The very first filling station had been opened in 1907, in Seattle, for Standard Oil Company.
• Fifty years after its founding in Bowling Green, Kentucky
  Bowling Green, Kentucky
  Bowling Green is the third-most populous city in the state of Kentucky after Louisville and Lexington, with a population of 58,067 as of the 2010 Census. It is the county seat of Warren County and the principal city of the Bowling Green, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area with an estimated 2009...
  
  , Ogden College signed an agreement with Western State Normal School and Teachers College, closing the college and turning the campus over to what would become Western Kentucky University
  Western Kentucky University
  Western Kentucky University is a public university in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA. It was formally founded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1906, though its roots reach back a quarter-century earlier....
  
  . The original 20 year lease was extended and will now run until 2059. The college's name survives as the "Ogden College of Science and Engineering" on the WKU campus.
• The ship Cap Arcona made her maiden voayage, departing Hamburg to Argentina. The German luxury liner would later be the prison for thousands of concentration camp inmates, who would die when that ship and others were bombed by the Royal Air Force
  Royal Air Force
  The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...
  
   on May 3, 1945.

November 20, 1927 (Sunday)

• Born: Ed W. Freeman, American soldier who was the inspiration for the film We Were Soldiers
  We Were Soldiers
  We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film that dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965. The film was directed by Randall Wallace and stars Mel Gibson. It is based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… And Young by Lieutenant General Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L...
  
  , in Neely, Mississippi
  Greene County, Mississippi
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 13,299 people, 4,148 households, and 3,152 families residing in the county. The population density was 19 people per square mile . There were 4,947 housing units at an average density of 7 per square mile...
  
  . Freeman waited 36 years to receive the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Vietnam War
  Vietnam War
  The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
  
   on November 14, 1965. (d. 2008)
• Died: John Stillwell Stark
  John Stillwell Stark
  John Stillwell Stark was a United States publisher of ragtime music. He is best known for publishing and promoting the music of Scott Joplin....
  
  , 86, American music publisher who popularized ragtime music.

November 21, 1927 (Monday)

• The Colorado state police opened fire
  Columbine Mine massacre
  The first Columbine Massacre, sometimes called the Columbine Mine massacre to distinguish it from the Columbine High School massacre, occurred in 1927, in the town of Serene, Colorado. A fight broke out between Colorado state police and a group of striking coal miners, during which the unarmed...
  
   with machine guns on 500 unarmed coal miners at the Columbine Mine Rocky Mountain Fuel Company in Lafayette, Colorado
  Lafayette, Colorado
  The City of Lafayette is a Home Rule Municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 23,884 on 2005-07-01.- Geography :Lafayette is located at ....
  
   during a strike, killing five of them. The incident was referred to as the "Columbine Massacre" prior to the 1999 high school shooting in Littleton, Colorado.
• The Soviet government passed a proposal by Joseph Stalin
  Joseph Stalin
  Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
  
   to make it a capital crime to leave the U.S.S.R. and to refuse to return. In addition to the confiscation of a violator's property, a person convicted of "placing oneself outside the law" of the U.S.S.R. was subject to execution "24 hours after confirmation of his identity". The law was used to carry out assassinations of anyone harmful to the regime, no matter where they lived.
• Actress Edith Luckett Robbins filed a petition for divorce against her husband, Kenneth Robbins, for desertion. The divorce was granted by a court in Trenton, New Jersey, in February. Edith then married Dr. Loyal Davis, who adopted her daughter, Ann Frances Robbins, who would take on the name Nancy Davis, later Nancy Reagan
  Nancy Reagan
  Nancy Davis Reagan is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989....
  
  .
• Born:: Georgia Frontiere
  Georgia Frontiere
  Georgia Frontiere was the majority owner and chairman of the St. Louis Rams football team and the most prominent female owner in a league historically dominated by males....
  
  , majority owner of the NFL's St. Louis Rams
  St. Louis Rams
  The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...
  
  , who moved the team to her hometown from Los Angeles in 1995; as Violet Frances Irwin in St. Louis (d. 2008); and Joseph Campanella
  Joseph Campanella
  Joseph Campanella in Lewistown, Pennsylvania is an American character actor who has appeared in over 200 TV and film roles since 1955, including such shows as The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, The Road West, The Golden Girls and Mama's Family. He also had a role in...
  
  , American TV actor, in Lewistown, Pennsylvania
  Lewistown, Pennsylvania
  Lewistown is a borough in and the county seat of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies along the Juniata River, northwest of Harrisburg. The number of people living in the borough in 1900 was 4,451; in 1910, 8,166; and in 1940, 13,017. The population was 8,998 at the 2000 census,...
  
  

November 22, 1927 (Tuesday)

• Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
   and Albania
  Albania
  Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
  
   signed a mutual defense treaty, popularly called the Second Pact of Tirana, which "gave Italy de facto control over Albania as a protectorate". Italy would conquer the Balkan nation in 1939, installing its monarch as King Viktor Emanueli.
• Detroit's NHL team played its first game in Detroit, and its first home game in the United States, after spending its first year playing across the border in Windsor, Ontario
  Windsor, Ontario
  Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and is located in Southwestern Ontario at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. It is within Essex County, Ontario, although administratively separated from the county government. Separated by the Detroit River, Windsor...
  
  . The Detroit Cougars defeated the Ottawa Senators, and after changing their name to the Falcons, became the Detroit Red Wings
  Detroit Red Wings
  The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York...
  
   in 1932.
• The Alvin Theater opened on Broadway, with George Gershwin
  George Gershwin
  George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
  
  's musical Funny Face
  Funny Face (musical)
  Funny Face is a 1927 musical composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith.Originally called Smarty, it starred Fred Astaire and his sister Adele Astaire. It opened in Philadelphia to poor reviews, and amidst major re-writes,...
  
   as its first presentation. The name was not based on anyone named Alvin, but was an amalgam of the names of producers Alex Aarons and Vinton Freedley.
• Died: St. Pedro Esqueda Ramirez
  Saints of the Cristero War
  On May 21, 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized a group of 25 saints and martyrs arising from the Mexican Cristero War. The vast majority are Roman Catholic priests who were executed for carrying out their ministry despite the suppression under the anti-clerical laws of Plutarco Elías Calles. Priests...
  
  , 40, one of the Cristeros martyrs who was executed by the Mexican government.

November 23, 1927 (Wednesday)

• U.S. Army pilot Rusty Rowell located the secret mountain base of El Chipote
  Battle of Las Cruces (1928)
  The Second Battle of Las Cruces, or the New Year's Day Battle, was a major engagement during the American occupation of Nicaragua. It was fought on 1 January 1928, during an expedition to destroy a Sandinista fortress...
  
  , used by Sandinista rebels for raids against the Nicaraguan National Guard, and American troops occupying Nicaragua.
• Born: Cardinal Angelo Sodano
  Angelo Sodano
  Angelo Sodano is an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the current Dean of the College of Cardinals and former Vatican Secretary of State, having held that post from 1990 to 2006, under both popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI...
  
  , Secretary of State of the Vatican
  Cardinal Secretary of State
  The Cardinal Secretary of State—officially Secretary of State of His Holiness The Pope—presides over the Holy See, usually known as the "Vatican", Secretariat of State, which is the oldest and most important dicastery of the Roman Curia...
  
   from 1990 to 2006; in Isola d'Asti
  Isola d'Asti
  Isola d'Asti is a comune in the Province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 45 km southeast of Turin and about 8 km south of Asti....
  
  . He was the highest ranking Vatican officer from April 2 to April 19, 2005.
• Died: Miguel Agustín Pro, 36, Mexican Jesuit priest who became one of the most famous of 20th Century Catholic martyrs upon his execution on charges of conspiracy; and Stanisław Przybyszewski, 59, Polish dramatist.

November 24, 1927 (Thursday)

• On Thanksgiving Day at California's Folsom Prison, the maximum security inmates were watching a holiday program at the cell house, when the group overwhelmed the eight guards and attempted an escape. As luck would have it, the assistant turnkey
  Turnkey
  A turn-key or a turn-key project is a type of project that is constructed by a developer and sold or turned over to a buyer in a ready-to-use condition.-Common usage:...
  
   had transferred the keys to the prison to another employee shortly before the outbreak. Two guards and seven prisoners died in a riot by around 400 inmates of the 1,200 inmates, before 300 members of the California National Guard arrived to assist 200 civil officers, bringing with them tanks and machine guns. The group released their hostages unharmed upon surrendering the next morning.
• Born: Ahmadou Kourouma
  Ahmadou Kourouma
  Ahmadou Kourouma was an Ivorian novelist.-Life:The eldest son of a distinguished Malinké family, Ahmadou Kourouma was born in 1927 in Côte d'Ivoire. Raised by his uncle, he initially pursued studies in Bamako, Mali...
  
  , Ivorian novelist, in Boundiali
  Boundiali
  Boundiali is a town in Boundiali Department in north central Côte d'Ivoire, in the southwest of Savanes Region.Its population, the boundialikas, is made mainly of ethnic groups shared across the borders of Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso as well as some Fulas, totalling around 50,000 people in the...
  
   (d. 2003); Emma Lou Diemer
  Emma Lou Diemer
  Emma Lou Diemer is an American composer. Diemer has written many works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, keyboard, voice, chorus , and electronic media...
  
  , American composer, in Kansas City, Missouri
  Kansas City, Missouri
  Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
  
  ; and Alfredo Kraus
  Alfredo Kraus
  Alfredo Kraus Trujillo was a distinguished Spanish tenor of partly Austrian descent, particularly known for the artistry he brought to opera's bel canto roles...
  
  , Spanish tenor, in Las Palmas
  Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  Las Palmas de Gran Canaria commonly known as Las Palmas is the political capital, jointly with Santa Cruz, the most populous city in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the ninth largest city in Spain, with a population of 383,308 in 2010. Nearly half of the people of the island...
  
  , the Canary Islands
  Canary Islands
  The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
  
   (d. 1999)
• Died: Ion I. C. Brătianu
  Ion I. C. Bratianu
  Ion I. C. Brătianu was a Romanian politician, leader of the National Liberal Party , the Prime Minister of Romania for five terms, and Foreign Minister on several occasions; he was the eldest son of statesman and PNL leader Ion Brătianu, the brother of Vintilă and Dinu Brătianu, and the father of...
  
  , 63, Prime Minister of Romania
  Prime Minister of Romania
  The Prime Minister of Romania is the head of the Government of Romania. Initially, the office was styled President of the Council of Ministers , when the term "Government" included more than the Cabinet, and the Cabinet was called The Council of Ministers...
  
   on five occasions since 1909; William H. G. Bullard
  William H. G. Bullard
  William Hannum Grubb Bullard was an admiral of the United States Navy, whose service included duty during the Spanish-American War and World War I. After World War I, he established the Navy's patrol on China's Yangtze River...
  
  , U.S. Navy Admiral, radio engineer, and first chairman of the Federal Radio Commission
  Federal Radio Commission
  The Federal Radio Commission was a government body that regulated radio use in the United States from its creation in 1926 until its replacement by the Federal Communications Commission in 1934...
  
   (forerunner of the FCC); and Shushanik Kurghinian
  Shushanik Kurghinian
  Shushanik Kurghinian was an Armenian writer who became a catalyst in the development of socialist and feminist poetry. She gave voice to the voiceless and saw her role as a poet as profoundly political. Her first poem was published in 1899 in Taraz, and in 1900 her first short story appeared in...
  
  , 51, Armenian feminist writer and poet

November 25, 1927 (Friday)

• The Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State was created by the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini.
• The International Radio-Telegraphy Convention was signed in Washington by representatives of 51 nations, and took effect on January 1, 1929.
• New York debut of 11 year old violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
• Born: Dick Wellstood
  Dick Wellstood
  Richard MacQueen "Dick" Wellstood was an American jazz pianist...
  
  , American jazz pianist, in Greenwich, Connecticut
  Greenwich, Connecticut
  Greenwich is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 61,171. It is home to many hedge funds and other financial service companies. Greenwich is the southernmost and westernmost municipality in Connecticut and is 38+ minutes ...
  
   (d. 1987)

November 26, 1927 (Saturday)

• In the most anticipated game of the 1927 college football season
  1927 college football season
  The 1927 college football season ended with the Illini of the University of Illinois being recognized as champion under the Dickinson system. In the Rose Bowl, the Pittsburgh Panthers were invited to play against the Pacific Coast Conference champion...
  
  , a crowd of 123,000 turned out at Soldier Field in Chicago to watch Notre Dame (6-1-1) play against the USC (7-0-1). Notre Dame won 7-6, on the strength of a blocked extra point attempt, to hand the Trojans their first loss.
• Maria Kutschera, a 22 year old tutor, married her widowed employer, former Austro-Hungarian Navy Captain Georg von Trapp, and became stepmother to his seven children. Together, they formed the Trapp Family Singers, and their story became the inspiration for the Broadway musical, and later the film, The Sound of Music
  The Sound of Music
  The Sound of Music is a musical by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers...
  
  .

November 27, 1927 (Sunday)

• China's first professional music educational institution, the National College of Music, was created. Based in Shanghai
  Shanghai
  Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
  
  , the school had Cai Yuanpei
  Cai Yuanpei
  Cai Yuanpei was a Chinese educator and the president of Peking University. He was known for his critical evaluation of the Chinese culture that led to the influential May Fourth Movement...
  
   as its first President, and Xiao Youmei as its first Dean of Studies. Under the Communist regime, the college received its current name as the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
  Shanghai Conservatory of Music
  The Shanghai Conservatory of Music , as the first music institution of higher education in China, was founded on November 27, 1927. The teachers and students have won numerous awards both home and abroad, thus earning the conservatory the name, “the cradle of musicians”.-History:The Shanghai...
  
  .
• Iran-Afghanistan nonaggression treaty
• Tornado ripped through Washington, D.C.
• Born: William E. Simon
  William E. Simon
  William Edward Simon was a businessman, a Secretary of Treasury of the U.S. for three years, and a philanthropist. He became the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury on May 8, 1974, during the Nixon administration. He was reappointed by President Ford and served until 1977. Outside of government, he was...
  
  , U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1974-77 (d. 2000)
• Died: Deluvina Maxwell, former Navajo Indian slave who

November 28, 1927 (Monday)

• Born: Chuck Mitchell
  Chuck Mitchell
  Chuck Mitchell was an American actor, known for his role as "Porky" in the raunchy 1982 cult classic movie Porky's...
  
  , American actor known for portraying "Porky" Wallace in the films Porky's
  Porky's
  Porky's is a 1982 comedy film about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach High School in Florida in 1954. It was released in the United States in 1982, and spawned two sequels: Porky's II: The Next Day and Porky's Revenge! and influenced many writers in the teen film genre...
  
  and Porky's Revenge
  Porky's Revenge
  Porky's Revenge! is the 1985 third installment to the Porky's film trilogy. The film was directed by James Komack.-Plot:The sex-crazed teenagers of Angel Beach High School are back for the third and final time. They continue to be harassed by the gym teacher, Beulah Balbricker, who catches them...
  
  (d. 1992)

November 29, 1927 (Tuesday)

• Amanullah Khan
  Amanullah Khan
  Amanullah Khan was the King of the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, first as Amir and after 1926 as Shah. He led Afghanistan to independence over its foreign affairs from the United Kingdom, and his rule was marked by dramatic political and social change...
  
  , King of Afghanistan, became the first Afghan monarch to depart his kingdom to travel abroad. His tour of Europe lasted until his return on June 1, 1928.
• Born: Vin Scully
  Vin Scully
  Vincent Edward Scully is an American sportscaster, known primarily as the play-by-play voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team on Prime Ticket, KCAL-TV and KABC radio...
  
  , American baseball broadcaster known as "The Voice of the Dodgers"; in the Bronx

November 30, 1927 (Wednesday)

• The Soviet Union's proposal for a General and Complete Disarmament" presented by the Soviet delegation to the League of Nations.
• Born: Robert Guillaume
  Robert Guillaume
  Robert "Bob" Guillaume is an American stage and television actor, best known for his role as Benson Du Bois on the TV-series Soap and the spin-off Benson, voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King and as Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night...
  
  , American TV actor (Benson
  Benson (TV series)
  Benson is an American television sitcom which aired from September 13, 1979, to April 19, 1986, on ABC. The series was a spin-off from the soap opera parody Soap ; however, Benson discarded the...
  
  ), in St. Louis