MILESFORTIS

November 27

1095 – In support of the Byzantine Empire’s request for military assistance, Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade to recover the Holy Land from moslem rule, at the Council of Clermont.

1727 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.

1839 – The American Statistical Association is founded in Boston

1868 – Lieutenant Colonel George Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land along the Washita river

1895 – At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.

1896 – Also sprach Zarathustra, by Richard Strauss, is first performed in Frankfurt Germany

1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.

1924 – In New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

1934 –  Mortally wounded in a gun fight with 4 F.B.I. agents in Barrington, Illinois, near Chicago, Gangster George ‘Baby Face’ Nelson, age 25, escapes after killing 1 and mortally wounding another of the agents and finally dies in a safehouse in Wilmette. His body is dumped in a cemetery in Skokie by his wife and his accomplice John Chase

1945 – The Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe is founded to a send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II.

1965 – Pentagon advisors tell President Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.

1973 – By terms of the 25th amendment, the Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Michigan Representative Gerald Ford’s nomination as Vice President of the United States.

1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White, opening the way for the President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Dianne Feinstein to be appointed as Mayor and starting her ascent to higher political offices.

1989 – The Medellín Cartel places a bomb aboard Avianca Flight 203, a Boeing 727, which explodes in mid air over Soacha, Colombia, killing all 107 passengers and crew on board and 3 people on the ground.

1991 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in the states of the former Yugoslavia.

2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris of the star HD 209458 in the constellation of Pegasus, by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

2015 – A man enters a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, shooting and killing 2 and wounding 6 and later wounds 4 responding Colorado Springs Police Officers with 1 officer later dying, before surrendering.

2020 – Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated while traveling to his vacation villa in the city of Absard near Tehran.

November 26

1476 – Vlad III Țepeș, known as ‘The Impaler’, defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.

1778 – Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui in the Hawaiian islands.

1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President Washington at the request of Congress.

1863 – President Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Since 1941, it has been on the 4th Thursday.

1917 – The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France with Italian and Russian agreement on their plans on how to partition the Ottoman empire as it collapsed during World War I.

1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun

1926 – John Moses Browning dies, age 71, of heart failure while at his work bench in his son’s design shop at Fabrique Nationale in Herstal, Belgium.

1941 – On the same day that Japan’s 1st Air Fleet, under the command of Admiral Chūichi Nagumo departs Hitokappu Bay, enroute to Hawaii, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivers a note to the Japanese envoy Saburō Kurusu in Washington D.C., demanding that Japan withdraw from China and French Indochina, in return for which the U.S. would lift economic sanctions.

1942 – Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City.

1943 – While flight leader, launched off the USS Enterprise on the first night fighter mission to engage Japanese bombers attacking the carrier task force, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Edward O’Hare, earlier recipient of the Medal of Honor, is shot down in action and lost at sea.

1950 – During the Korean War, troops from the People’s Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces along the Ch’ongch’on River and around the Chosin Reservoir

1968 – U.S. Air Force helicopter pilot 1st Lieutenant James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces CCC MACV-SOG unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire near near Đức Cơ and is awarded the Medal of Honor in May 1970 for his actions in combat.

1990 – During a night flying weapons test, at Fort Campbell Kentucky, U.S Army Lieutenant Colonel Richard Vincent and Chief Warrant 3 Richard Walsh, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company USASOC, are killed when their OH-6 helicopter crashes .

2000 – George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida’s electoral votes of the 2000 Presidential election by Florida Secretary of State, Katherine Harris.

2003 – The Concorde airliner makes its final flight over Bristol, England.

2011  The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover aboard.

2021 – The World Health Organization identifies the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.

November 25

1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.

1491 – The siege of Granada, the last moor stronghold in Spain, ends with Boabdil, the sultan of Granada, and Ferdinand and Isabella, the King and Queen of Castile, León, Aragon and Sicily, signing a treaty of an immediate truce and a surrender of Granada, taking effect on January 2nd, 1492, completing the nearly 800 year long Reconquista and freeing up resources for other activity, perchance exploration of a shorter route to China.

1758 – During the French and Indian War, British forces capture Fort Duquesne located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh.

1783 – The last British troops leave New York City 3 months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris ending the American War of Independence

1863 –At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the siege of Chattanooga by Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.

1876 –  In retaliation for the U.S. Cavalry’s defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, U.S troops attack  and overwhelm the village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River in Wyoming.

1915 – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

1926 – A outbreak of tornados across the Southern states in the U.S. results in the deadliest storm total in November at the time, killing 76 people and injuring more than 400.

1950 – The Great Appalachian Blizzard of 1950 strikes across 22 states, killing 353 people and injuring more than 160.

1963 – In a state funeral, President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

1986 –  U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

1999 – Cuban born, 6 year old, Elian Gonzalez is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.

2016 – Fidel Castro dies, age 90.