This day in history – November 27

• 1703 The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.

• 1807 The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.

• 1815 City of Kraków (Poland) declared a free republic state by the Congress of Vienna.

• 1815 Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.

• 1826 John Walker invents friction match in England.

• 1885 First photograph of a meteor taken by Austro-Hungarian photographer Ladislaus Weinek in Prague.

• 1889 First permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady).

• 1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel’s will establishes the Nobel Prize.

• 1896 “Also Sprach Zarathustra” (Thus Spake Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical novel, debuts in Frankfurt.

• 1911 Audience throws vegetables at actors for first recorded time in US.

• 1920 “The Mask of Zorro” directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York – first American superhero film.

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

• 1934 Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out.

• 1967 The Beatles release their album “Magical Mystery Tour”.

• 1970 George Harrison releases 3 album set “All Things Must Pass”.

• 1973 Neil Simon’s “Good Doctor” premieres in NYC.

• 1982 Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 v England).

• 1987 “Les Miserables” opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney.

• 1989 George Harrison releases “Cheer Down” & “Poor Little Girl”.

• 1994 Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed

• 1997 Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.

• 2001 A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

• 2005 First partial human face transplant is completed for Isabelle Dinoire in Amiens, France.

• 2012 29 people are killed and 126 are wounded by eight car bombings across Iraq.

• 2013 “Frozen”, the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released.

• 2015 Robert Lewis Dear (57) shots three dead and wounds nine at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

• 2015 “Holy grail” of shipwrecks the San Jose, sunk 1708, is confirmed found by an international team off the coast of Colombia.

Source: www.onthisday.com