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Events from History on November 27

1095 : Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
1237 : Battle of Cortenuova: Emperor Frederik II vs Lombardische steden
1382 : Battle of Westrozebeke (French army beats Flemings-1,000s die)
1495 : Scottish king James IV receives bedrieger Perkin Warbeck
1582 : William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway
1587 : Dutch County Groningen flood by dike break
1798 : Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St Peterburg jail
1815 : Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic
1817 : US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
1826 : John Walker invents friction match in England
1839 : American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
1843 : Opera "Bohemian Girl" is produced (London)
1863 : -29] Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas
1863 : Battle of Payne's Farm, VA
1864 : 2nd day of Battles at Waynesboro, Georgia
1864 : R Luther discovers asteroid 82, Alkmene (named for mother of Hercules)
1868 : Battle at Washita-Gen Custer defeats Cheyennes
1870 : NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
1877 : Burkina adopts its constitution
1885 : Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made
1889 : 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady)
1889 : Hermann Sudermann's "Ehre," premieres in Berlin
1890 : 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation
1891 : A Borrelly discovers asteroid #322 Phaeo
1895 : Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
1896 : "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) debuts in Frankfurt
1898 : Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die
1901 : Army War College forms in Washington DC
1901 : Gerhart Hauptmanns "Der rote Hahn," premieres in Berlin
1903 : Opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)
1907 : J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #653 Berenike
1910 : NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
1911 : Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
1912 : Albanian National Flag adopted
1912 : Spanish protectorate in Morocco forms
1914 : 1st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK)
1919 : Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies & Bulgaria
1924 : 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA & Polytechnic tie 7-7)
1925 : German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno
1926 : 110,000 watch Army & Navy play a 21-all tie
1926 : B‚la Bart¢ks ballet "Miraculous Mandarin," premieres in Keulen
1926 : Italian & Albania sign peace treaty
1926 : KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1926 : Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
1932 : Poland & USSR signs non-attack treaty
1937 : Pro-labor musical revue "Pins & Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU
1939 : Maxwell Anderson's "Key Largo," premieres in NYC
1940 : 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB)
1940 : Nazis signs Technical Hague court Delft
1941 : British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk
1941 : Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP
1941 : USSR begins a counter offensive causes Germany to retreat
1942 : Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ
1942 : French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis don't take them
1942 : Tito appoints Anti fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia
1943 : Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)
1944 : 3,500-40,00 ton explosive, explodes in Staffordshire, 68 killed
1944 : US 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hrtgen
1945 : Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of
1945 : Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China
1945 : Hannie Buy buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina
1945 : Queen Wilhelmina
1945 : Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins
1946 : English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2
1947 : Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
1948 : Honda 1st opens in America
1950 : Red Sox sign shortstop Lou Boudreau as a player to 2-year contract
1950 : Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague
1951 : 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
1951 : Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon Korea
1952 : KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 : "By the Beautiful Sea" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 270 perfs
1956 : F Goodrich & A Hackett's "Diary of Anne Frank," premieres in Neth
1957 : Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration
1958 : USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
1960 : CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"
1960 : Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast
1960 : Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
1960 : Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo
1960 : Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
1961 : Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games
1961 : KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 : 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place
1962 : Sumner Arthur Long's "Never Too Late," premieres in NYC
1962 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 : 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Wash DC
1965 : 1st French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space
1966 : Uruguay adopts constitution
1967 : Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
1967 : Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price
1970 : Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year
1970 : George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"
1970 : Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines
1970 : by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
1971 : Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1972 : Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government
1972 : Yanks trade Ellis, Torres & Spikes to Indians for Nettles & Moses
1973 : Gary Matthews wins NL Rookie of Year
1973 : Neil Simon's "Good Doctor," premieres in NYC
1973 : Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP
1974 : Cardinals outfielder Bake McBride wins NL Rookie of Year
1976 : Miss Teenage America Pageant
1977 : "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Imperial NY after 66 perf
1978 : Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 183
1980 : Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1981 : Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #4566
1982 : 5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0
1983 : Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185
1983 : Desmond Haynes out handled the ball v India
1984 : A Mrkos discovers asteroid #7695
1984 : CERGA discovers asteroid #6587 Brassens
1984 : T Seki discovers asteroid #3182 Shimanto
1985 : Cards Vince Coleman wins NL Rookie of Year
1985 : Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
1986 : A Maury discovers asteroid #3838 Epona
1986 : CERGA discovers asteroid #7928
1987 : "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney
1987 : Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England
1988 : W Kakei & M Kizawa & T Urata discover asteroid #5513 Yukio
1989 : Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107
1989 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 : George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" & "Poor Little Girl"
1989 : Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay
1989 : US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space
1990 : Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher
1991 : "Peter Pan" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances
1991 : Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba)
1991 : Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ
1992 : Howard Stern Interview premieres on E! Network
1992 : Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire
1993 : Lisa Hanna, 18, of Jamaica, crowned 43rd Miss World
1994 : Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed
1994 : Julio Mar¡a Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay
1994 : M Hirasawa & S Suzuki discover asteroid #7892
1994 : T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #8206
1995 : M Tichy discovers asteroid #7496
1997 : Lions' Barry Sanders becomes NFL's 2nd all-time rusher

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