Today in history, Nov 27th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 27th!

1826	Jedediah Smith’s expedition reaches San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the southwestern part of the continent.
1862	George Armstrong Custer meets his future bride, Elizabeth Bacon, at a Thanksgiving party.
1868	Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s 7th Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River.
1887	U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton, brother of the three famous outlaws, is killed in the line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark.
1901	The Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.
1904	The German colonial army defeats Hottentots at Warm bad in southwest Africa.
1909	U.S. troops land in Blue fields, Nicaragua, to protect American interests there.
1910	New York’s Pennsylvania Station opened.
1919	Bulgaria signs peace treaty with Allies at Unequally, France, fixing war reparations and recognizing Yugoslavian independence.
1922	Allied delegates bar the Soviets from the Near East peace conference.
1936	Great Britain’s Anthony Eden warns Hitler that Britain will fight to protect Belgium.
1942	The French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
1950	East of the Choosing River, Chinese forces annihilate an American task force.
1953	Playwright Eugene O’Neill died at age 65.
1954	Alger Hiss, convicted of being a Soviet spy, is freed after 44 months in prison.
1959	Demonstrators march in Tokyo to protest a defense treaty with the United States.
1967	Lyndon Johnson appoints Robert McNamara to presidency of the World Bank.
1967	Charles DeGaulle vetoes Great Britain’s entry into the Common Market again.
1970	Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
1970	Syria joins the pact linking Libya, Egypt and Sudan.
1973	The Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned.
1985	The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord, giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.
2002	U.N. specialists began a new round of weapons inspections in Iraq.
2008	Iraq’s parliament approved a pact requiring all U.S. troops to be out of the country by Jan. 1, 2012.
2009	Golfer Tiger Woods crashed his SUV outside his Florida mansion, sparking widespread attention to reports of marital infidelity.
2009	Former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced daughter Chelsea’s engagement to longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

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