November 27: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
2. 1295 - The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called toWestminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
3. 1830 - St. Catherine Laboure experiences a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.
4. 1895 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs hislast will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
5. 1924 - In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
6. 1968 - Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, in an ABA game Kentucky Colonels vs. Los Angeles Stars.
7. 1971 - The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
8. 1973 - The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States(on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
9. 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
10. 2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens,France.
11. Famous Birthdays: Anders Celsius (Swedish astronomer), Charles Scott Sherrington (English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate), Lars Onsager (Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate), Fe del Mundo (Filipino pediatrician), Cornelius Vanderbilt II (American businessman)

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