TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 27
0511 Clovis, king of the Franks, dies and his kingdom is divided between his four sons.
1095 In Clermont, France, Pope Urbana II makes an appeal for warriors to relieve Jerusalem. He is responding to false rumors of atrocities in the Holy Land.
1295 English King Edward I calls what later became known as “The Model Parliament” extending the authorities of its representatives
1779 The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania. It was the first legally recognized university in America.
1807 Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 people leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil to escape invading Napoleonic troops
1817 US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
1868 Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s 7th Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River.
1909 U.S. troops land in Blue fields, Nicaragua, to protect American interests there.
1934 The U.S. bank robber George “Baby Face” Nelson was killed by FBI agents near Barrington, IL.
1959 Demonstrators march in Tokyo to protest a defense treaty with the United States.
1970 Syria joins the pact linking Libya, Egypt and Sudan.
1973 US Senate votes to confirm Gerald Ford as President of the United States, following President Richard Nixon’s resignation; the House will confirm Ford on Dec. 6
1978 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Parti Karkerani Kurdistan, or PKK) founded; militant group that fought an armed struggle for an independent Kurdistan
1985 The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consulting role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.
1992 In Venezuela, rebel forces tried but failed to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez for the second time in ten months.
2001 Hubble Space Telescope discovers a hydrogen atmosphere on planet Osiris, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
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