Today in History: First Partial Face Transplant Performed in Amiens, France

November 27 is the 331th day of the year (332th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 34.

Railways

• 27 November 1892 Polatlı-Ankara line was accepted for temporary admission.
• 27 November 1895 Afyon-Akşehir (98 km) line was opened. The line was purchased by the state on December 31, 1928.
• 1923 – The Eastern Railways strike ended.

Events

• 1526 – Suleiman the Magnificent went on a campaign to Austria.
• 1909 - Thomas Edison made the first sound film demonstration.
• 1919 – Bulgaria signs the Treaty of Neuilly with the Allies.
• 1922 – Liberation of Lalapaşa.
• 1924 – Kazım Karabekir Pasha was elected as the Chairman of the Progressive Republican Party, the first opposition party of the Republic of Turkey.
• 1933 – Turkey - Yugoslavia Friendship, Non-Aggression, Judicial Solution, Arbitration and Conciliation Agreement was signed in Belgrade.
• 1936 – The National Assembly decided to take the Hatay case to the League of Nations.
• 1942 – German armies enter the Port of Toulon; The French Navy here destroyed itself.
• 1943 – Earthquakes occurred in Amasya, Çorum, Tokat, Ordu and Kastamonu; 4016 people died, 23.785 houses were destroyed.
• 1947 – Istanbul BJK İnönü Stadium was opened.
• 1948 – The 22 Turkish Economy Congress, which started in Istanbul on November 1948, ended. In the congress, the policy of statism was criticized and the encouragement of private entrepreneurship was requested.
• 1950 – Kunuri War begins in Korea.
• 1961 – The Istanbul Police took the crow into custody, with a paper written "Moscow" on its leg.
• 1967 – Cyrus Vance, the US President Johnson's Special Representative for Cyprus, came to Ankara for the third time and met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil and took Turkey's new proposals. The Greek Junta was asked to give its definitive answer.
• 1967 - French Prime Minister, General Charles de Gaulle, vetoed Britain's entry into the Common Market.
• 1970 – Atatürk Cultural Center (then known as Istanbul Culture Palace) burned down while Arthur Miller's The Witch Cauldron was being staged. The building, which has become unusable, will remain closed until 1978, when it will reopen.
• 1976 – CHP announced that it would become a member of the Socialist International.
• 1978 – PKK was founded in Fis village of Lice district of Diyarbakır.
• 1978 – 1981 was declared the Year of Atatürk by UNESCO.
• 1981 – 901 faculty members opposed the Higher Education Law in Ankara.
• 1990 – As a result of the elections held in the United Kingdom, John Major becomes Prime Minister.
• 1990 - First birth from the marriage of two same-sex men. It is also considered as the alternative world gay day.
• 1994 – Privatization Administration was established.
• 1996 – 52 PKK members were killed in the operations carried out in rural areas of Diyarbakır, Bingöl, Tunceli, Bitlis, Hakkari, Mardin and Siirt, 5 of them were captured alive. 7 security guards died in clashes.
• 1998 – The Bright Turkey Party was founded.
• 2001 - Hubble Space Telescope outside the Solar System Osiris He discovered that a planet called hydrogen has an atmosphere made up of hydrogen. This is the first atmosphere discovered outside the Solar System.
• 2002 – UN weapons inspectors resumed their inspections in Iraq after a four-year hiatus.
• 2005 – The first partial face transplant was performed in Amiens, France.

Births

• 1127 – Xiaozong, 11th emperor of the Song Dynasty of China (d. 1196)
• 1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer and physicist (inventor of the Celsius thermometer) (d. 1744)
• 1754 – Georg Forster, German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary (d. 1794)
• 1833 – Mary Adelaide, British royal family (d. 1897)
• 1842 – Fitnat Hanım, Turkish Divan poet (d. 1909)
• 1857 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English bacteriologist, pathologist, and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1952)
• 1870 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish politician and former President of Finland (d. 1956)
• 1874 – Charles Austin Beard, American historian (d. 1948)
• 1874 – Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (d. 1952)
• 1887 – Masaharu Homma, lieutenant general of the Empire of Japan (d. 1946)
• 1894 - Kōnosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist who founded Panasonic (d. 1989)
• 1903 – Lars Onsager, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (d. 1976)
• 1907 – İlhan Tarus, Turkish prosecutor, judge and writer of stories, plays, novels (d. 1967)
• 1909 – James Agee, American novelist, journalist, poet, and critic (d. 1955)
• 1912 – Connie Sawyer, American actress (d. 2018)
• 1913 – Alfredo Bai, Italian sculptor (d. 1980)
• 1921 – Alexander Dubcek, reformist communist leader of Czechoslovakia (d. 1992)
• 1925 – John Maddox, British journalist and scientist (d. 2009)
• 1927 – Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian-born former international football player (d. 1987)
• 1929 – Alan Simpson, English screenwriter (d. 2017)
• 1932 - Benigno Aquino Jr. Philippines opposition leader (d. 1983)
• 1932 – Ülkü Adatepe, adopted daughter of Atatürk (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Sevinç Aktansel, Turkish actress (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, former President of Congo DC (d. 2001)
• 1939 – Gül Çiray Akbaş, Turkish middle-distance runner (d. 2019)
• 1940 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American actor (d. 1973)
• 1941 – Aimé Jacquet, French manager and former football player
• 1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
• 1943 – Nicole Brossard, French Canadian formalist poet and novelist
• 1945 – James Avery, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Ismail Omar Guelle, Djiboutian politician
• 1951 – Kathryn Bigelow is an American film director working in the science fiction, action, and horror genres.
• 1951 – Ernesto Zedillo, Mexican economist and politician
• 1953 – Steve Bannon, American media executive, political strategist, retired military officer, former investment banker
• 1955 – Bill Nye, American science educator, television host, and mechanical engineer
• 1956 - William Fichtner, American actor
• 1956 – Nazrin Shah, Malaysian ruler
• 1957 – Caroline Kennedy, American author, lawyer, and diplomat
• 1957 – Callie Khouri, Syrian and Lebanese-American film and television screenwriter, director, and producer
• 1959 – Gani Müjde, Turkish writer, cartoonist, screenwriter, director and presenter
• 1960 – Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian politician
• 1961 – Steve Oedekerk, American comedian, director, editor, producer, screenwriter, and actor
• 1961 Marshall Webb, American general
• 1962 – Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (d. 2002)
• 1963 Fisher Stevens, American actor, director, and producer.
• 1964 – Can Ulkay, Turkish film director
• 1964 – Roberto Mancini, Italian football player and manager
• 1968 – Aydın Bulut, Turkish cinema director, screenwriter and producer
• 1969 – Mariusz Sordyl, Polish volleyball coach, former volleyball player
• 1971 - Kirk Acevedo is an American actor.
• 1973 – Twista, American rapper
• 1975 – Bad Azz, American rapper, actor, and musician (d. 2019)
• 1975 – Ömür Varol, Turkish journalist and presenter
• 1979 – Hilary Hahn, Grammy-winning American violin virtuoso
• 1981 – Bruno Alves, Portuguese football player
• 1981 – Ryan Jimmo, Canadian martial artist and kickboxer (d. 2016)
• 1981 – Matthew Taylor, English football player
• 1982 – Aleksandr Kerjakov, Russian former international football player
• 1983 – Professor Green, English rapper and singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Park Soo-jin, South Korean actor
• 1984 – Meltem Yılmazkaya, Turkish theater, TV series and movie actress
• 1984 – Sanna Nielsen, Swedish singer
• 1986 – Teemu Tainio, Finnish football player
• 1986 – Xavi Torres, Spanish football player
• 1987 – Luigi Datome, Italian basketball player
• 1990 – Josh Dubovie, English singer
• 1992 – Park Chan-yeol, South Korean singer

Deaths

• 8 BC – Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Roman poet (b. 65 BC)
• 450 - Galla Placidia, Emperor III. Constantius' wife (b. 392)
• 511 – Clovis I, first king of the Franks (b. 466)
• 602 – Maurice, emperor of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire from 582 – 602 (b. 539)
• 1198 – Constance of Hautville, Holy Roman-German Emperor VI. wife of Heinrich (b. 1154)
• 1754 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
• 1852 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and author (b. 1815)
• 1895 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist (b. 1824)
• 1916 – Émile Verhaeren, Belgian poet (b. 1855)
• 1923 – Tage Reedtz-Thott, Danish politician (b. 1839)
• 1936 – Basil Zaharoff, a Greek businessman from the Ottoman Empire. (b. 1849)
• 1937 – Felix Hamrin, Swedish politician (b. 1875)
• 1940 – Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian, academic, writer, poet and politician (b. 1871)
• 1944 – Leonid Mandelstam, Belarusian-Soviet physicist (b. 1879)
• 1950 – James Braid, Scottish golfer (b. 1870)
• 1953 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwright and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1955 – Arthur Honegger, Swiss composer (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian communist politician (b. 1892)
• 1977 – Cemal Yeşil, Turkish bureaucrat (b. 1900)
• 1978 – Harvey Milk, American politician (b. 1930)
• 1981 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian-American singer, knee-jerk (b. 1898)
• 1985 – Fernand Braudel, French historian (b. 1902)
• 1988 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
• 1989 – Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish politician (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Rüştü Şardağ, Turkish composer, writer, journalist and writer (b. 1916)
• 1995 – Abdullah Yüce, Turkish music artist (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Alain Peyrefitte, French politician (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Malcolm Bradbury, English writer and academic (b. 1932)
• 2001 – Akın Çakmakçı, Turkish bureaucrat (b. 1937)
• 2010 – Irvin Kershner, American film director (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Ken Russell, British film director (b. 1927)
• 2011 – Gary Speed, Welsh football player and manager (b. 1969)
• 2013 – Nílton Santos, former Brazilian football player (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Necmi Tanyolaç, Turkish sports writer and journalist (co-founder of Turkish Sports Writers Association) (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (b. 1988)
• 2015 – Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, Swedish film, theater and television actress (b. 1921)
• 2016 – Münir Akça, Turkish actor (b. 1951)
• 2016 – Ioannis Grivas, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
• 2017 – Cristina Stamate, Romanian actress (b. 1946)
• 2018 – Uğur Kıvılcım, Turkish theater and film actor (b. 1942)
• 2018 – Goran Stefanovski, Macedonian playwright (b. 1952)
• 2019 – Stefan Danailov, Bulgarian politician and actor (b. 1942)
• 2019 – Maarit Feldt-Ranta, Finnish politician (b. 1968)
• 2019 – Godfrey Gao, Taiwan-born Canadian model and actress (b. 1984)
• 2020 – Selva Casal, Uruguayan poet and writer (b. 1927)
• 2020 – Muhsin Fahrizade, Iranian military officer and professor of physics (assassinated) (b. 1957)
• 2020 – Gene Fraise, American politician (b. 1932)
• 2020 – Parviz Purhuseyni, Iranian actor (b. 1941)
• 2020 – Aly Zaker, Bangladeshi actor, businessman, director and writer (b. 1944)

Holidays and special occasions

• World Alternative Gay Day
• Maaveerar Naal