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Today in History ~ November 27
Events1095 - Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
1495 - Scottish king James IV receives Perkin Warbeck
1759 - Town officials in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, evicted the Rev. Francis Gastrell from William Shakespeare’s home after he cut down a 150-year-old tree that had been planted by the famed writer.
1815 - Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic
1817 - US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
1843 - Balfe's opera "Bohemian Girl" is produced (London)
1863 - Battle of Payne's Farm, VA
1864 - 2nd day of Battles at Waynesboro, Georgia
1868 - Battle at Washita: Custer massacres a band of peaceful Cheyenne near the Washita River [H]
1889 - 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady)
1895 - Explosives magnate Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
1896 - Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) debuts in Frankfurt
1901 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der Rote Hahn," premieres in Berlin
1901 - The War Department authorized creation of the Army War College to instruct commissioned officers. It was built in Leavenworth, Kan.
1910 - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
1911 - Audience throws over-ripe vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
1926 - Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
1939 - Maxwell Anderson's "Key Largo," premieres in NYC
1940 - Astonescu's Iron Guard massacres over sixty aides of the exiled king, including Nicolae Iorga, a former minister and acclaimed historian. Two months prior General Ion Antonescu had seized power in Romania and forced King Carol II to abdicate his rule.
1941 - British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk
1941 - USSR begins a counter offensive, causes Germans to retreat
1942 - The French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
1943 - Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)
1945 - Gen. George C. Marshall was named special U.S. envoy to China to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists.
1950 - Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" opens in Prague
1951 - 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
1951 - Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon Korea
1957 - Army withdraws from Little Rock, Ark after Central HS integration
1957 - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru makes an impassioned speech for nuclear disarmament in New Delhi. [H]
1960 - CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"
1960 - Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo
1965 - 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Wash DC
1967 - Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
1970 - Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
1972 - Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government
1973 - Neil Simon's "Good Doctor," premieres in NYC
1973 - The Senate voted 92-to-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned.
1978 - Former City Supervisor Dan White enters San Francisco City Hall through an open basement window (avoiding metal detectors), walks into the office of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, and shoots him dead. Then White continues to kill City Supervisor Harvey Milk [H]
1983 - 183 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport.
1984 - The Treasury Department proposed a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Tax Code.
1985 - The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.
1987 - Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England
1989 - 107 people were killed when a bomb blamed by police on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian jetliner.
1989 - University of Chicago doctors implanted part of a woman's liver in her 21-month-old daughter in the nation's first living donor liver transplant.
1989 - Virginia certified Douglas Wilder as the nation's first elected black governor by a margin of 0.38 percent.
1990 - British treasury chief John Major was elected Conservative Party leader, succeeding Margaret Thatcher as prime minister.
1991 - Israel signaled its anger with what it regarded as the high-handedness of the United States by rejecting an invitation to attend Mideast peace talks in Washington on Dec. 4.
1991 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution paving the way for the establishment of a U.N. peacekeeping operation in war-ravaged Yugoslavia.
1992 - Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire
1992 - Military dissidents attempted to overthrow Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez.
1994 - Bosnian Serbs took 150 U.N. peacekeepers hostage to prevent NATO air strikes.
1996 - A federal judge blocked enforcement of a California initiative to dismantle affirmative action, saying civil rights groups had a "strong probability" of proving it unconstitutional.
1996 - Evan C. Hunziker, an American jailed by North Korea on spy charges, was set free, ending a three-month ordeal.
1997 - Tens of thousands of German students took to the streets of Bonn to protest the decline of Germany's higher education system.
2000 - A day after George W. Bush was certified the winner of Florida's presidential vote, Al Gore laid out his case for letting the courts settle the nation's long-count election.
2000 - Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien's Liberal Party won a third straight majority in the House of Commons.
2001 - Nearly half the 1,200 people detained after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, mostly of Middle Eastern descent, were still in custody more than two months later.
Birthdays Today
1544 - Ascanio Trombeti, composer
1701 - Anders Celsius, Sweden, scientist/inventor (centigrade temp scale)
1741 - Jean-Pierre Duport, composer
1750 - Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer
1778 - John Murray, publisher
1809 - Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble, England, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)
1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt (capitalist: started the Staten Island Ferry)
1874 - Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman (1st President)
1879 - Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer
1894 - Forrest Shaklee, founder (Shaklee Products)
1907 - L[yon] Sprague de Camp, US, sci-fi author (Goblin Tower, Hand of Zei). Died in 2000.
1909 - James Agee, American author (African Queen, Death in Family)
1910 - Rudolf Holzmann, composer
1912 - David Merrick, [Margulois], Hong Kong, Broadway producer (Hello Dolly)
1917 - Buffalo Bob (Smith) (TV host: Howdy Doody Time)
1921 - Alexander Dubcek, headed Czech Communist Party (1968-69)
1925 - Marshall Thompson (actor)
1932 - Benigno Aquino Jr, Philippine opposition leader; assassinated
1935 - Al Jackson (drummer)
1935 - Willie (Wilfred) Pastrano (boxer: Light Heavyweight Champion [1963-65])
1937 - Gail Henion Sheehy (author, journalist: The Silent Passage: Menopause, Pathfinders)
1939 - Dave Giusti (baseball)
1940 - Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], SF Calif, karate star/actor (Kato in the Green Hornet)
1942 - Jimi Hendrix (musician, singer: Foxy Lady, Purple Haze)
1944 - Eddie Rabbitt
1947 - Don Adams (basketball)
1948 - Jimmy Gunn (football)
1949 - Jim Price (basketball)
1950 - Hans Fassnacht (swimmer)
1952 - Ike Harris (football)
1953 - Boris Grebenshikov (Russian rock musician)
1957 - Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg, attorney, JFK & Jackie's daughter
1964 - Robin Givens (actress: Head of the Class, A Rage in Harlem)
1971 - Eric Menendez, NY, covicted of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers)
Famous deaths
0511 - Clovis, 1st King of France, dies at 45
1474 - Guillaume Dufay, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 74
1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern), dies
1749 - Balthasar Schmid, composer, dies at 44
1749 - Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel, composer, dies at 59
1836 - Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer, dies
1934 - "Baby Face" Nelson, [Lester Gillis], gangster, shot by FBI at 26
1953 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936), dies in Boston at 65
1958 - Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor/composer, dies at 66
1959 - Gerard Philipe, actor/dir (La Ronde, Gambler), dies of cancer at 36
1967 - Ettore Panizza, opera conductor, dies at 92
1972 - Mahalia Jackson, vocalist (Got Whole World in His Hands), dies at 61
1978 - George Moscone, (SF Mayor), shot by Dan White
1978 - Harvey Milk, (SF City Supervisor), shot by Dan White
1981 - Lotte Lenya, singer/actress/wife of Kurt Weill (Three Penny Opera, From Russia With Love), dies in NY at 83
1988 - John Carradine, basso profundo actor (Ten Commandments), dies of kidney failure at 82
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