November 27th

• 1807

  Portuguese Royal Family flees to Brazil from Napoleonic troops.

• 1809

  Theodore Hook's Berners Street hoax stuns London.

• 1826

  John Walker invents the friction match in England.

• 1895

  Alfred Nobel's will creates the Nobel Prize.

• 1910

  New York's Penn Station opens. View Post →

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• 1911

  First recorded vegetable throwing at US actors.

• 1924

  First Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC.

• 1926

  US Army & Navy's 21-all tie watched by 110,000.

• 1934

  Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.

• 1991

  Undertaker defeats Hulk Hogan for WWF championship.

• 2012

  Eurozone agrees to 43.7 billion euro loan for Greece.

• 2013

  'Frozen' released, becomes highest-grossing animated film.

• 2005

  First successful partial face transplant in France.

• 1940

  Martial artist Bruce Lee is born.