Once Upon A Time – Nov. 27 – 1895 – Swedish Chemist Alfred Nobel’s Will, Establishes The Nobel Prize

1095 Pope Urban II preaches the west to wrestle control of the Holy land the Seljuk Turks at the Council of Clermont, triggering the First Crusade

1627 Birth in the Hague, Netherlands, of Luise Henriette von Oranien, Electress of Brandenburg. She will become mother of Friedrich I, King of Prussia, founder of an orphanage near Berlin, and author of hymns, among which will be “Jesus Christ, My Sure Defense.”

1295 English King Edward I calls what later became known as “The Model Parliament” extending the authorities of its representatives

1493 Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the 1st 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.

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

Today’s Historical Events
Today in Film & TV
2013 “Frozen”, the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released

Today in Music
1967 The Beatles release their album “Magical Mystery Tour”

Today in Sport
1961 Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games

Do you know this fact about today? Did You Know?
1920 “The Mask of Zorro” directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York – 1st American superhero film

Would you believe this fact about today? Would You Believe?
2005 President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-serving head of state in the world, is re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term