November 27th

November 27  is the 332nd day of the year.  There are 34 days remaining until the end of the year.

1095 Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade against abortion, women priests and homosexual Musselmen

1839 In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded. So sue me, it’s a slow news day and I'm a member

1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize–actually he just signs his will that has a provision for establishing the prize upon his demise.

1901 The U.S. Army War College is established–the hazing rituals remain problematic.

1910 New Yorks's Penn Station opens as world's largest train station

1965 Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters begin their electric kool-aid acid test, at La Honda, California; Neal Cassady takes his shirt off.

2005 The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.

1701 Anders Celsius, gay Swedish astronomer/ inventor of the Celsius scale and lipstick

1917 Buffalo Bob Smith [Robert Emil Schmidt], US musician/actor/kids’ television host/Howdy Doody’s “very close friend” <wink><wink> 

1942 Jimi Hendrix, maybe gay legendary US guitarist/songwriter 

1949 Gerrit Graham, US actor/writer 

1956 William Fichtner, US actor 

1960 Stéphane Freiss, French actor 

1963 Fisher Stevens [Steven Fisher], US actor 

1964 Adam Shankman, gay US director of Hairspray/SYTYCD judge 

1964 Daniel Ducruet, French cocksman/first husband of Princess Stephanie of Monaco 

1968 Michael Vartan, French actor/Alias 

1970 Erik Menendez, gay US parent murderer 

1972 Àlex Brendemühl , Spanish actor 

1971 Kirk Acevedo, US actor/OZ 

1974 Alec Newman, maybe gay Scottish actor

1978 Unax Ugalde, Basque actor 

1981 Gary Lucy, English actor 

1978 Harvey Milk, gay US activisit/San Francisco Supervisor/assassinated by Twinkie-fueled Dan White 

2009 Mike Penner aka Christine Daniels, transsexual US sportswriter (Los Angeles Times), calls her own game.