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On This Day

November 27

1992
Austria's Hofburg Palace catches on fire, damage was estimated at $90,000,000.

1992
AIDS: The successful use of adeno-associated virus (AAV) with an altered gene to combat AIDS in laboratory tests is announced by Science journal.

1985
Rocky IV premiers.

1951
The Dinah Shore Show debuts.

1914
First British woman police officers: Mary Allen and E.F. Harburn begin patrolling in Grantham, Linclonshire.

1873
First major U.S. railroad tunnel: The Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts is completed, remaining the longest until 1927. Its construction had begun in 1851. It also provided the first practical use of the newly discovered explosive nitroglycerin.

1826
First white man to cross the Mohave Desert: American explorer Jedediah Smith arrives in San Diego. He and his crew had set out form the Great Salt Lake, Utah in August.

1755
First Jewish settlement in America: Joseph Salvador establishes one in South Carolina.

1971
Kelly Bundy, character on the TV show Married...With Children.

1969
Michael and James Lanier, world's tallest identical twins, 7 ft. 4 in. (source: Guinness Book of World Records)

1964
Robin Givens, American actress and ex-wife of Mike Tyson. TV: Head of the Class (Darlene).

1963
Fisher Stevens (Stephen Fisher), American actor. TV: Key West (star).

1942     d. 1970
Jimi Hendrix (James Marshall Hendrix), American singer, Purple Haze (1967). He was the highest paid act at Woodstock.

1941
Eddie Rabbitt (Edward Thomas), American singer, songwriter. Music: Every Which Way But Loose (1978, #1) and I Love a Rainy Night (1980, #1).

1940     d. 1973
Bruce Lee, American martial arts expert, actor. Film: Fists of Fury (1972) and Enter the Dragon (1973). TV: The Green Hornet (Kato).

1932     d. 1983
Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine politician, dissident. He was assassinated at the Manilla airport upon returning to the Philippines.

1917
Buffalo Bob Smith, American entertainer. TV: Howdy Doody (host).

1874     d. 1948
Charles Austin Beard, American historian, known for his economic interpretation of history, co-author with his wife of The Rise of American Civilization (1927).

1874     d. 1952
Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman, biochemist, instrumental in the Balfour Declaration (1917), which established a national home for Jews in Palestine and served as Israel's first president (1948-52).

1857     d. 1952
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist. He shared the 1932 Nobel Prize in medicine with E.D. Adrian for the discovery of the neurons.

1746     d. 1813
Robert R. Livingston, American patriot, member of the Continental Congress. He administered the oath of office to George Washington in 1789.

1701     d. 1744
Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, inventor of the Celsius (centigrade) thermometer (1742).

1988     b. 1906
John Carradine (Richmond Reed Carradine), American actor.

1953     b. 1888
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, American Nobel-Pulitzer-winning playwright, works include The Iceman Cometh (1946).

1934     b. 1908
Baby Face Nelson (George Nelson), American criminal, member of John Dillinger's gang.

1895     b. 1824
Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils), French author, playwright. Writings: Camille (1852) and The Natural Son (1858).

1812     b. 1747
John Dunlap, American printer, publisher, he and David C. Claypoole published the first successful daily newspaper in U.S., the Pennsylvania Packet & General Advertiser (Sept 21, 1784). He also printed the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.

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