Once Upon A Time – November 27 – 1807 – Portuguese Royal Family And Its Court Leave Lisbon

1095 Pope Urban II preaches the west to wrestle 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 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

Historical Events Today
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” in US; issued as an EP in UK in December

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

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1920 “The Mark of Zorro” directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York – 1st American superhero film

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

Famous Weddings
1960 American movie actress Lana Turner (39) weds 5th husband, rancher Frederick May

1971 MLB center fielder Willie Mays (40) weds Mae Louise Allen in Mexico City

1980 British playwright Harold Pinter (50) marries 2nd wife British writer and historian Antonia Frazer (48)