This Day in History Nov. 27

Nov. 27

1810 The Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in Westminster, London
1815 Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic
1817 US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
1839 American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
1863 Conf. leader J Morgan escape the Ohio Penitentiary and some of his men then return South
1868 US Army Lt Colonel G Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land
1889 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis Brady)
1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
1901 Army War College established in Washington DC
1910 NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
1912 Spanish protectorate in Morocco established
1924 In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held
1926 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
1941 USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat
1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis don't take them
1945 Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China
1951 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
1958 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
1971 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1980 Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1985 Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space

1868, I'm embarrassed that G.A. Custer was ever a part of Michigan history. Seems like most of the things he did were very cowardly. To each his own, but I guess he got his own in the end.

Ross