On This Day in History  November 27

Historical Events

1095 Pope Urban II preaches to the West to wrest 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 becomes known as "The Model Parliament," extending the authority of its representatives

1493 Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the first 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.

Embarkation in Lisbon of the Portuguese Royal Family on their way to Brazil

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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Famous Birthdays

Anders Celsius 1701 - 1744 Robert R. Livingston 1746 - 1813

Bruce Lee 1940 - 1973 Bill Nye 69th Birthday

Also Charles Scott Sherrington and Jimi Hendrix

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Famous Deaths

Ada Lovelace 1815 - 1852 Harvey Milk 1930 - 1978

Also Baby Face Nelson

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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.

Lord Nelson Joins the Navy

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