Historical Events
- 1095 Pope Urban II preaches the west to wrestle control of the Holy land from the Seljuk Turks at the Council of Clermont, triggering the First Crusade
- 1295 English King Edward I calls what later became known as "The Model Parliament" extending the authorities of its representatives
- 1493 Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the 1st native American uprising against Spanish rule. Taíno cacique Caonabo led his people to attack the settlement after the brutal treatment they received from the garrison who disobeyed Columbus's orders.
- 1807 Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 people leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil to escape invading Napoleonic troops
- 1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize
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Nov 27 in Film & TV
- 2013 "Frozen", the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released
Nov 27 in Music
- 1967 The Beatles release their album "Magical Mystery Tour" in US; issued as an EP in UK in December
Nov 27 in Sport
- 1961 Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games
Did You Know?
"The Mark of Zorro" directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York - 1st American superhero film
On November 27, 1920
Anders Celsius
Robert R. Livingston
Alexander Dubček
Bruce Lee
Jimi Hendrix
Robin GivensWould You Believe?
President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-serving head of state in the world, is re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term
On November 27, 2005
Famous Weddings
- 1960 American movie actress Lana Turner (39) weds 5th husband, rancher Frederick May; divorce in 1962
- 1971 MLB center fielder Willie Mays (40) weds Mae Louise Allen in Mexico City
- 1980 British playwright Harold Pinter (50) marries 2nd wife British writer and historian Antonia Frazer (48)
Famous Divorces
- 2006 "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (39) divorces singer Kid Rock (36) due to irreconcilable differences only 4 months after getting married
- 2006 Actress Selma Blair (34) divorces actor-rocker Ahmet Zappa (32) due to irreconcilable differences after more than 2 years of marriage
- 2013 American "That '70s Show" actor Ashton Kutcher (35) divorces actress Demi Moore (51) due to irreconcilable differences after 8 years of marriage
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Ada Lovelace
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Stephen HillenburgArticles, Photos and Quiz
Horatio Nelson: From Frail Boy to National Hero
A 12-year-old boy stepped into a world where many men feared to tread on this day: the harsh and brutal British Navy. He was legend-to-be Horatio Nelson.
November 27, 1770
Portuguese Royal Family Leave for Brazil
Embarkation in Lisbon of the Portuguese Royal Family on their way to Brazil in 1807
November 27, 1807
Weekly Quiz for November 25 - December 1
What did Alfred Nobel patent? What was name of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's famous thought experiment? What was Mark Twain's real name?
