TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 27
511 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.
1779 The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania. It was the first legally recognized university in America.
1826 Jebediah Smith’s expedition reaches San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the southwestern part of the continent.
1841 Thirty-five Amistad survivors return to Africa.
1887 U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton, brother of the three famous outlaws, is killed in the line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark.
1895 Alfred Nobel signed his last will, which established the Nobel Prize.
1901 The Army War College was established in Washington, DC.
1910 New York’s Pennsylvania Station opened.
1934 The U.S. bank robber George “Baby Face” Nelson was killed by FBI agents near Barrington, IL.
1950 East of the Choosing River, Chinese forces annihilate an American task force.
1954 Alger Hiss, convicted of being a Soviet spy, is freed after 44 months in prison.
1959 Demonstrators march in Tokyo to protest a defense treaty with the United States.
1963 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress.
1967 Lyndon Johnson appoints Robert McNamara to presidency of the World Bank.
1970 Syria joins the pact linking Libya, Egypt and Sudan.
1970 Pope Paul VI was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
1973 Gerald R. Ford was confirmed by the Senate to become vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew.
1978 San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, assassinated by former city supervisor Dan White.
1989 21-month old Alyssa Smith became the first person to receive a liver transplant from a living donor, her mother Teresa Smith at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
2003 President Bush secretly flew to Iraq to spend Thanksgiving with the troops.
2004 Pope John Paul II returns relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2005 First partial human face transplant completed Amiens, France.
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