11-27-2004, 07:37 AM
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November 27th
8 BC ~ Death of Horace, poet. Remembered for “carpe diem”, (seize the day) among other things.
1095 ~ Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1895 ~ Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he died.
1907 ~ Birthday of L. Sprague de Camp, Science Fiction writer.
1921 ~ Birthday of Alexander Dubček, Czech politician.
1942 ~ Birthday of Jimi Hendrix, musician.
1946 ~ Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appealed to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster".
Guess what country subsequently developed nuclear weapons and a missile delivery system?
1953 ~ Death of Eugene O'Neill, playwright.
1978 ~ In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
2001 ~ A hydrogen atmosphere was discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
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