About the day » Tuesday November 27, 1956Calender converter

• Mieke van GENDEREN, Dordrecht († 1956)
• Vern Allan Baker, Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa († 2017)
• Johanna Maria Catharina van GENDEREN, Dordrecht († 1956)
• Jacques Joseph Marcel (Jaak) Castro, Hasselt, België († 1996)
• Pieter Verhoog, Leiden († 1958)
• Leonard Marc Alfons Berebrouckx, Sint-Truiden, België († 1979)
• Aaltje Jantina Harmsma, Leeuwarden, Nederland († 2005)
• Deborah Colleen Young, Gresham, Multnomah, Oregon, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Ivan Bamps, Sint-Truiden, België († 2010)
• Brasilia Carr, São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

• * Dirkje van der Lit (80), Maartensdijk
• Adrianus Jacobus van der Burg (46), Delft,Gemeente Delft,South Holland,Nederland
• Adriana van Rijsbergen (60), Breda, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Aaltje Heinen (79), Enschede
• Berendina Johanna (Dien) Jansen van 't Laar (63), Deventer
• Agnes O'Leary (73), Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Strong Todd (88), Mount Vernon, Knox, Ohio, United States
• Adriaantje Geertrui Elzerman (82), Rotterdam
• Aaltje de Vries (75), Grouw
• Adriaan Hendrik Moonen (49), Leiden

• 1955 » Bill Nye, American engineer, educator, and television host
• 1955 » Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1956 » John McCarthy, English journalist and author
• 1956 » Nazrin Shah of Perak, Sultan of Perak
• 1956 » William Fichtner, American actor
• 1957 » Callie Khouri, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 » Caroline Kennedy, American lawyer and diplomat, 29th United States Ambassador to Japan
• 1957 » Frank Boeijen, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1957 » Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish race car driver
• 1957 » Michael A. Stackpole, American game designer and author

• 1943 » Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian soldier and politician (b. 1916)
• 1944 » Leonid Mandelstam, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1955 » Arthur Honegger, French-Swiss composer and academic (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian politician, Head of State of Bulgaria (b. 1892)
• 1960 » Dirk Jan de Geer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1870)
• 1960 » Frederick Fane, Irish-English cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1962 » August Lass, Estonian footballer (b. 1903)
• 1967 » Léon M'ba, Gabonese politician, 1st President of Gabon (b. 1902)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. Petrus
10. Gerrit
11. John
12. Adrianus
13. Paul
14. Dirk
15. Jacobus
16. Jacob

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Elisabeth
5. Anna
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Petronella
10. Hendrika
11. Yvonne
12. Geertruida
13. Margaretha
14. Marianne
15. Patricia
16. Jacoba

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
• April 5 » In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Ceylon.
• May 1 » A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
• September 16 » TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
• October 19 » The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
• October 31 » Hungarian Revolution of 1956: A Revolutionary Headquarters is established in Hungary. Following Imre Nagy's announcement of October 30, banned non-Communist political parties are reformed, and the MDP is replaced by the MSZMP. József Mindszenty is released from prison. The Soviet Politburo makes the decision to crush the Revolution.
• October 31 » Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.

The temperature on November 27, 1956 was between 5.0 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west.