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Nov 27, 1095: Pope Urban II orders first Crusade
On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of "Deus vult!" or "God wills it!"
Born Odo of Lagery in 1042, Urban was a protege of the great reformer Pope Gregory VII. Like Gregory, he made internal reform his main focus, railing against simony (the selling of church offices) and other clerical abuses prevalent during the Middle Ages. Urban showed himself to be an adept and powerful cleric, and when he was elected pope in 1088, he applied his statecraft to weakening support for his rivals, notably Clement III.
By the end of the 11th century, the Holy Land—the area now commonly referred to as the Middle East—had become a point of conflict for European Christians. Since the 6th century, Christians frequently made pilgrimages to the birthplace of their religion, but when the Seljuk Turks took control of Jerusalem, Christians were barred from the Holy City. When the Turks then threatened to invade the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople, Byzantine Emperor Alexius I made a special appeal to Urban for help. This was not the first appeal of its kind, but it came at an important time for Urban. Wanting to reinforce the power of the papacy, Urban seized the opportunity to unite Christian Europe under him as he fought to take back the Holy Land from the Turks.
At the Council of Clermont, in France, at which several hundred clerics and noblemen gathered, Urban delivered a rousing speech summoning rich and poor alike to stop their in-fighting and embark on a righteous war to help their fellow Christians in the East and take back Jerusalem. Urban denigrated the Muslims, exaggerating stories of their anti-Christian acts, and promised absolution and remission of sins for all who died in the service of Christ.
Urban's war cry caught fire, mobilizing clerics to drum up support throughout Europe for the crusade against the Muslims. All told, between 60,000 and 100,000 people responded to Urban's call to march on Jerusalem. Not all who responded did so out of piety: European nobles were tempted by the prospect of increased land holdings and riches to be gained from the conquest. These nobles were responsible for the death of a great many innocents both on the way to and in the Holy Land, absorbing the riches and estates of those they conveniently deemed opponents to their cause. Adding to the death toll was the inexperience and lack of discipline of the Christian peasants against the trained, professional armies of the Muslims. As a result, the Christians were initially beaten back, and only through sheer force of numbers were they eventually able to triumph.
Urban died in 1099, two weeks after the fall of Jerusalem but before news of the Christian victory made it back to Europe. His was the first of seven major military campaigns fought over the next two centuries known as the Crusades, the bloody repercussions of which are still felt today. Urban was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1881.
Nov 27, 1940: Iron Guard massacres former Romanian government
Two months after General Ion Antonescu seized power in Romania and forced King Carol II to abdicate, Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes more than 60 aides of the exiled king, including Nicolae Iorga, a former minister and acclaimed historian.
The extreme right-wing movement known as the Iron Guard was founded by Corneliu Codreanu in the 1920s, imitating Germany's Nazi Party in both ideology and methods. In 1938, King Carol II managed to establish a stronger dictatorship in Romania and took steps to suppress the activities of the Iron Guard as well as its left-wing antithesis, the Romanian Communist Party. However, the control fell into violent turmoil after the Munich Pact of 1939 was signed, seen as an abandonment of Romania by its Western allies from World War I, followed by a Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact in 1939, which ceded portions of Romania to the USSR.
General Ion Antonescu emerged from the chaos victorious and established a dictatorship with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's approval, killing, exiling, or imprisoning most of his former political opposition. Nevertheless, Romanian resistance to the Iron Guard and Nazi occupation persisted during the war, and in August 1944 a massive revolt toppled Antonescu's government in the Romanian capital of Bucharest, allowing the Soviet liberators to capture the city without firing a shot. In 1945, Romanian communists came to power with the backing of the Soviet Union.
Nov 27, 1868: Custer massacres Cheyenne on Washita River
Without bothering to identify the village or do any reconnaissance, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an early morning attack on a band of peaceful Cheyenne living with Chief Black Kettle.
Convicted of desertion and mistreatment of soldiers earlier that year in a military court, the government had suspended Custer from rank and command for one year. Ten months into his punishment, in September 1868, General Philip Sheridan reinstated Custer to lead a campaign against Cheyenne Indians who had been making raids in Kansas and Oklahoma that summer. Sheridan was frustrated by the inability of his other officers to find and engage the enemy, and despite his poor record and unpopularity with the men of the 7th Cavalry, Custer was a good fighter.
Sheridan determined that a campaign in winter might prove more effective, since the Indians could be caught off guard while in their permanent camps. On November 26, Custer located a large village of Cheyenne encamped near the Washita River, just outside of present-day Cheyenne, Oklahoma. Custer did not attempt to identify which group of Cheyenne was in the village, or to make even a cursory reconnaissance of the situation. Had he done so, Custer would have discovered that they were peaceful people and the village was on reservation soil, where the commander of Fort Cobb had guaranteed them safety. There was even a white flag flying from one of the main dwellings, indicating that the tribe was actively avoiding conflict.
Having surrounded the village the night before, at dawn Custer called for the regimental band to play "Garry Owen," which signaled for four columns of soldiers to charge into the sleeping village. Outnumbered and caught unaware, scores of Cheyenne were killed in the first 15 minutes of the "battle," though a small number of the warriors managed to escape to the trees and return fire. Within a few hours, the village was destroyed--the soldiers had killed 103 Cheyenne, including the peaceful Black Kettle and many women and children.
Hailed as the first substantial American victory in the Indian wars, the Battle of the Washita helped to restore Custer's reputation and succeeded in persuading many Cheyenne to move to the reservation. However, Custer's habit of boldly charging Indian encampments of unknown strength would eventually lead him to his death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Nov 27, 1914: Hindenburg celebrates Warsaw campaign
On November 27, 1914, German commander Paul von Hindenburg issues a triumphant proclamation from the battlefields of the Eastern Front, celebrating his army's campaign against Russian forces in the Polish city of Warsaw.
On November 1, Hindenburg had been appointed commander in chief of all German troops on the Eastern Front; his chief of staff was Erich Ludendorff, who had aided him in commanding several earlier victories against Russian forces in East Prussia. The new command, dubbed OberOst, had two objectives: First, they were to mount a counterattack in Poland while their colleague, Erich von Falkenhayn, managed German forces fighting in the Ypres region on the Western Front. Second, they were to balance the faltering Austrian command headed by Conrad von Hotzendorff. Earlier, Conrad had audaciously blamed his army's failure against Russia on a lack of sufficient German support and demanded that 30 new German divisions be sent east, a notion that Falkenhayn steadfastly opposed.
The German campaign against Warsaw, launched in early November 1914, aimed to draw Russian manpower and other resources away from their ferocious assault on the struggling army of Germany's ally, Austria-Hungary. In this it proved successful. The Germans scored several significant victories, most notably at the neighboring city of Lodz. Though the broader German assault ultimately failed, leaving Warsaw still in Russian hands, the kaiser rewarded Hindenburg by promoting him to field marshal, the highest rank in the German army.
In his statement of November 27, Hindenburg expressed his satisfaction with the results of the campaign and, of course, with his promotion. "I am proud at having reached the highest military rank at the head of such troops. Your fighting spirit and perseverance have in a marvelous manner inflicted the greatest losses on the enemy. Over 60,000 prisoners, 150 guns and about 200 machine guns have fallen into our hands, but the enemy is not yet annihilated. Therefore, forward with God, for King and Fatherland, till the last Russian lies beaten at our feet. Hurrah!"
Nov 27, 1940: Bruce Lee born
On this day in 1940, the actor and martial-arts expert Bruce Lee is born in San Francisco, California. In his all-too-brief career, Lee became a film star in Asia, and a pop-culture icon, posthumously, in America.
Lee was born while his father, a Chinese opera star, was on tour in America. The Lee family moved back to Hong Kong in 1941. Growing up, Lee was a child actor who appeared in some 20 Chinese films; he also studied dancing and trained in the Wing Chun style of gung fu (also known as kung fu). In 1959, Lee returned to America, where he eventually attended the University of Washington and opened a martial-arts school in Seattle. In 1964, he married Linda Emery, who in 1965 gave birth to Brandon Lee, the first of the couple’s two children. In 1966, the Lees relocated to Los Angeles and Bruce appeared on the television program The Green Hornet (1966-1967), playing the Hornet’s acrobatic sidekick, Kato. Lee also appeared in karate tournaments around the United States and continued to teach martial arts to private clients, including the actor Steve McQueen.
In search of better acting roles than Hollywood was offering, Lee returned to Hong Kong in the early 1970s. He successfully established himself as a star in Asia with the action movies The Big Boss (1971) and The Way of the Dragon (1972), which he wrote, directed and starred in. Lee’s next film, Enter the Dragon, was released in the United States by Hollywood studio Warner Brothers in August 1973. Tragically, Lee had died one month earlier, on July 20, in Hong Kong, after suffering a brain edema believed to be caused by an adverse reaction to a pain medication. Enter the Dragon was a box-office hit, eventually grossing more than $200 million, and Lee posthumously became a movie icon in America.
Lee’s body was returned to Seattle, where he was buried. His sudden death at the young age of 32 led to rumors and speculation about the cause of his demise. One theory held that Lee had been murdered by Chinese gangsters, while another rumor circulated that the actor had been the victim of a curse. The family-curse theory resurfaced when Lee’s 28-year-old son Brandon, who had followed in his father’s footsteps to become an actor, died in an accidental shooting on the set of the movie The Crow on March 31, 1993. The younger Lee was buried next to his father at Seattle’s Lake View Cemetery.
Nov 27, 1942: Jimi Hendrix born
Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix is born in Seattle. Hendrix grew up playing guitar, imitating blues greats like Muddy Waters as well as early rockers. He joined the army in 1959 and became a paratrooper but was honorably discharged in 1961 after an injury that exempted him from duty in Vietnam. In the early 1960s, Hendrix worked as a pickup guitarist, backing musicians including Little Richard, B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner, and Sam Cooke. In 1964, he moved to New York and played in coffeehouses, where bassist Bryan Chandler of the British group the Animals heard him. Chandler arranged to manage Hendrix and brought him to London in 1966, where they created the Jimi Hendrix Experience with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell. The band's first single, "Hey Joe," hit No. 6 on the British pop charts, and the band became an instant sensation.
In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience made its first U.S. appearance, at the Monterey Pop Festival. Hendrix made a splash by burning his guitar and was quickly established as a rock superstar. In the next two years, before the band broke up in 1969, it had released such classic songs as "Purple Haze," "Foxy Lady," and "The Wind Cries Mary." The band's albums included Are You Experienced? (1967), Bold as Love (1969), and Electric Ladyland (1969).
After the band dissolved because of creative tensions, Hendrix made his famous appearance at Woodstock, playing a masterful, intricate version of "The Star Spangled Banner." Later that year, he put together a new group called the Band of Gypsies, which debuted on New Year's Eve in 1969. The band put out only one album, Band of Gypsies (1969). (A second album, Band of Gypsies II, was released in 1986.) Hendrix then recorded another album, without the band, called The Cry of Love, which was released in 1971.
Hendrix, one of the most innovative guitar players of the rock era, established an advanced recording studio in New York called the Electric Lady, boasting 46-track recording technology. The studio opened in August 1970, shortly before Hendrix died in London in September 1970, following a drug overdose. He was 27.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
399 - St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1095 - Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
1237 - Battle of Cortenuova: Emperor Frederik II vs Lombardische steden
1295 - The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to
Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The
Model Parliament".
1382 - Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish
army. Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde killed and corpse displayed
1495 - Scottish king James IV receives bedrieger Perkin Warbeck
1587 - Dutch County Groningen flood by dike break
1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of
1703.
1798 - Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St Peterburg
jail
1807 - The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from
Napoleonic troops
1815 - City of Kraków (Poland) declared a free republic state by the
Congress of Vienna
1815 - Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland
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
US Cavalry Commander George Armstrong CusterUS Cavalry Commander George
Armstrong Custer 1868 - Battle at Washita River, Oklahoma. General Custer
attacks group of Native American Indians, their chief Black Kettle dies in the
attack
1870 - NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
1877 - Burkina Faso 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
1895 - Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
1896 - "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra)
debuts in Frankfurt
1901 - Army War College forms in Washington DC
1901 - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Der rote Hahn" premieres in Berlin
1901 - U.S. Army War College is established.
1903 - Opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)
1910 - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
1911 - Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart HauptmannAuthor and Nobel Laureate
Gerhart Hauptmann 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)
1924 - In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is
held.
1925 - German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno
1926 - 110,000 watch Army & Navy play a 21-all tie
1926 - Béla Bartoks 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
1931 - 1st Test Cricket match at the Gabba Bradman scores 200 on 1st day
1932 - Poland & USSR signs non-attack treaty
1934 - Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
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
Baseball Player Joe DiMaggioBaseball Player Joe DiMaggio 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 - 31st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Flying Wildcats defeat Winn Bombers,
23-14
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 Hurtgen
1945 - Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China
1945 - Hannie Buy buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina
1945 - Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins
1945 - Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of
Queen Wilhelmina
1946 - English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2
1947 - Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
Soviet Union Premier Joseph StalinSoviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin 1948
- 36th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 12-7
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
1953 - Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL's MVP
1954 - "By the Beautiful Sea" closes at Majestic Theater NYC
after 270 perfs
1954 - 42nd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes,
26-25
1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for
perjury.
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
1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive
Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
1965 - 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Wash DC
1965 - 1st French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space
1965 - 53rd CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers,
22-16
1966 - In highest-scoring NFL game, Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41
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 by a
dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
1970 - Test Cricket debut of Rodney "Iron Gloves" Marsh v England,
Brisbane
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
38th US President Gerald Ford38th US President Gerald Ford 1973 - Senate
votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP
1974 - Cardinals outfielder Bake McBride wins NL Rookie of Year
1975 - Red Sox's Fred Lynn is 1st rookie to win MVP (AL)
1975 - The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press
conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those
responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
1976 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Colgate-Far East Golf Championship
1976 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1977 - "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Imperial NY
after 66 perf
1977 - 65th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos,
41-6
1979 - 1st day-night one-day cricket international, Australia v WI at SCG
1980 - Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1982 - 5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0
1982 - Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 v England)
1983 - 71st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats BC Lions, 18-17
1983 - Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 181
1983 - Desmond Haynes out handled the ball v India
1985 - Cards Vince Coleman wins NL Rookie of Year
1985 - Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
1987 - "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney
1987 - Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England
1988 - 76th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats BC Lions, 22-21
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
British Prime Minister Margaret ThatcherBritish Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher 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 - Boon completes his 18th Test Cricket century (106 v NZ, Hobart)
1993 - India defeat West Indies in Bengal Jubilee Cricket Final, Kumble
6-12
1993 - Lisa Hanna, 18, of Jamaica, crowned 43rd Miss World
1994 - 82nd CFL Grey Cup: British Columbia Lions defeat Balt Stallions, 26-23
1994 - Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed
1994 - Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay
1997 - Lions' Barry Sanders becomes NFL's 2nd all-time rusher
1997 - Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
1999 - The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand
government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime
Minister in New Zealand's history.
WWF Wrestler Hulk HoganWWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan 2001 - A hydrogen
atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space
Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2004 - New Zealand's All Blacks thump Six Nations Rugby Union Champions
France 45-6 in Paris
2004 - Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to
the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens,
France.
2005 - President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967
and the longest-serving head of state in the world, was re-elected to his third
consecutive seven-year term.
2006 - The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen
Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada.
2006 - Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and former President of the
Italian Republic, resigned from his position as lifetime senator.
2012 - 29 people are killed and 126 are wounded by 8 car bombings across
Iraq
2012 - The eurozone announces that it will pay out 43.7 billion euros in
Loans to Greece
2013 - Tiger Woods is named PGA Tour's player of the year for the 11th
time
1684 - Japan's shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa was born. 1701 - Anders Celsius was born in Sweden. He was the inventor of the Celsius thermometer. 1779 - The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania. It was the first legally recognized university in America. 1839 - The American Statistical Association was founded in Boston. 1889 - Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City. 1901 - The Army War College was established in Washington, DC. 1910 - New York's Pennsylvania Station opened. 1939 - The play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened in New York. 1951 - Hosea Richardson became the first black horse racing jockey to be licensed in Florida. 1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress. 1970 - Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest. 1973 - The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew. 1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor. 1980 - Dave Williams (Chicago Bears) became the first player in NFL history to return a kick for touchdown in overtime. 1983 - 183 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Barajas airport in Madrid. 1985 - The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consulting role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland. 1987 - French hostages Jean-Louis Normandin and Roger Auque were set free by their pro-Iranian captors in West Beirut, Lebanon. 1989 - 107 people were killed when a bomb destroyed a Colombian jetliner minutes after the plane had taken off from Bogota's international airport. Police blamed the incident on drug traffickers. 1991 - The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that led the way for the establishment of a UN peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia. 1992 - In Venezuela, rebel forces tried but failed to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez for the second time in ten months.
1852 Lord Byron's daughter Ada died. She had assisted Charles Babbage with his "analytical engine" and is credited with inventing computer language. 1895 Alfred Nobel signed his last will, which established the Nobel Prize. 1910 New York's Pennsylvania Station opened. 1953 Playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65. 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. 2003 President Bush secretly flew to Iraq to spend Thanksgiving with the troops.
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