📜 This Day in History

November 27

• 1161A Song dynasty fleet defeated Jin ships in a naval engagement on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
• 1856William III unilaterally revised the constitution of Luxembourg, greatly expanding his powers as grand duke.
• 1944Between 3,500 and 4,000 tonnes of ordnance exploded at the RAF Fauld underground munitions storage depot in the largest non-nuclear explosion in the United Kingdom.
• 1989A bomb placed by the Medellín Cartel in an attempt to kill Colombian presidential candidate César Gaviria destroyed Avianca Flight 203, killing all 107 people on board, excluding Gaviria, who was not on the flight.
• 2001Astronomers announced the detection of sodium in the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD 209458 b, the first exoplanet atmosphere to be measured.
• 2020Nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, regarded as the chief of Iran's nuclear program, was assassinated, allegedly by Mossad.

Born on this day

• 111Antinous, Greek favourite of Hadrian (died 130)
• 1940Bruce Lee, American-Chinese actor, martial artist, and screenwriter (died 1973)
• 1942Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1970)
• 1960Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Ukraine