27 November - History and Importance of the Day

1095 - Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
1295 - English King Edward I calls meeting of people representatives.
1839 - American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
1895 - Alfred Nobel's will establishes Nobel Prizes
1910 - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
1951 - 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
1962 - 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place
1966 - Uruguay adopts constitution

2014 - Phillip Hughes, Australian Cricket Player, died today due to the hit he suffered on his head by a cricket in a sheffield Shield match.
            https://in.news.yahoo.com/cricket-world-quick-respond-death-hughes-083241419.html

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Birthdays

1701 - Anders Celsius, Sweden, (proposed the Celsius temperature scale)
1746 - Birthday  of Robert R. Livingston, jurist, statesman, USA.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov27.html
1940 - Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], karate star/actor (Enter The Dragon), born in San Francisco, California





History and Importance of the Day - Index of the Year

Updated 27 November 2016, 20 November 2015

26 November - History and Importance of the Day

World Anti-Obesity Day


43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony was formed.

1789 - 1st national Thanksgiving

1867 - Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit

1924 - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1942 Film Casablanca released in USA - Allied Expeditionary forces secured firm hold in North Africa in November 1942.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov26.html
1948 - 1st polaroid camera sold for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store.
1949 - Free India adopted the new constitution
1983 - Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
2008 - Mumbai was attacked by terrorists. Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists killed 164 and injured more than 250 people in Mumbai, India




Birthday

1876 - Willis Carrier, American engineer, developed modern air conditioning.
1898 - Karl Ziegler, German Empire, Chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (polymers), (d. 1973)







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Terrorist Attack on Mumbai

26/11/2008
Mumbai was attacked by terrorists
Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists killed 164 and injured more than 250 people in Mumbai, India

News coverage on 26/11/2011
Recall 60 hours of terror
http://news.in.msn.com/gallery/photoviewer.aspx?cp-documentid=3426002

Silent prayers of Bollywood
http://news.in.msn.com/gallery/photoviewer.aspx?cp-documentid=5625984


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History and Importance of the Day - Index of the Year


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Updated  27 November 2016, 26 November 2015