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On This Day In History for November 27, 2019
This is the 331st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining in 2019.
It was on this date in 1839, that In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
That same date in 1895, At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
It was on this date in 1924, that In New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
48 years ago today, The Soviet space program’s Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
It was 18 years ago today, that A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
American businessman, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, born on this date in 1843.
Charles Scott Sherrington, the English physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate was born 162 years ago today.
Born November 27, 1871, Italian physicist and engineer Giovanni Giorgi.
Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic, Konosuke Matsushita, born on this date in 1894.
Lars Onsager, the Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate was born 116 years ago today.
Russian mathematician and theorist, Anatoly Maltsev was born 110 years ago today.
American actor and television host, Buffalo Bob Smith, born on this date in 1917.
Eddie Rabbitt, the American singer-songwriter and guitarist was born 78 years ago today.
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer, Jimi Hendrix, born on this date in 1942.
Also born on that same date in 1955, American engineer, educator, and television host, Bill Nye.
Also turning 62 today is American game designer and author Michael A. Stackpole.
November
27 – Brad P. from NJ(but who was born in VA, and has moved back there…)
28 – Ben Sweetser
December
01 – Claudio Miranda (ClaudioM)
02 – Ben Fryxell from the MacMania Podcast
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 27, 2019
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