27 November In History | Worksheets for Kids

1895 – Alfred Nobel signs his last will. Alfred Nobel signed his last will which called for his estate and fortune that he made as the inventor of dynamite to be used for creating awards for those who contributed to the benefit of mankind. The will created 5 awards – in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace, and was signed in the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris.
1924 – The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held in New York City.
1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
1973 – The United States Senate votes to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States.

1978 – Harvey Milk and George Moscone are assassinated. Milk was the first openly-gay person to be elected in local government in California. He and George Moscone, San Francisco’s mayor at the time, were killed by a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
1989 – World’s first living liver transplant. 21-month old Alyssa Smith became the first person to receive a liver transplant from a living donor, her mother Teresa Smith at the University of Chicago Medical Center. The transplant occurred under the supervision of surgeons Christoph Broelsch, Richard Thistlethwaite, Thomas Heffron, and Jean Emond.
1997 – Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions becomes the NFL’s 2nd all-time leading rusher
2001 – Hubble detects the first planetary atmosphere outside the Solar System. The space telescope detected sodium on HD 209458 b, an exoplanet also known as Osiris. Belonging to a class of planets called hot Jupiter, because they are similar in size to Jupiter. Unlike Jupiter, however, these planets orbit very close to their stars and consequently have very high temperatures on their surfaces.
2005 – World’s first successful partial face transplant. Drs Bernard Devauchelle, Benoit Lengelé, and Jean-Michel Dubernard used donor tissue to reconstruct the face of Isabelle Dinoire in Amiens, France. Isabelle Dinoire’s face had been mauled by a dog.

1701 – Anders Celsius (1701-1744) was born in Sweden (He invented the centigrade (Celsius) temperature scale commonly used in Europe.
1853 – Wild West lawman Bat Masterson (1853-1921) was born in Henryville, Quebec (He was also a gambler, saloonkeeper, and later became a news writer in New York.
1874 – Israeli statesman Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952) was born near Pinsk, Byelorussia (He helped bring about the British government’s Balfour Declaration, which called for the establishment of a national home for Jews in Palestine.
1921 – Czech leader Alexander Dubcek (1921-1992) was born in Uhrocev, Slovakia (In 1968, as first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, he attempted to achieve “socialism with a human face” and loosen Soviet Russia’s control of his country (This resulted in a military invasion by the Russians.

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