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November 27

1862 George Armstrong Custer meets his future bride, Elizabeth Bacon, at a Thanksgiving party.

1868Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's 7th Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River.

1950 East of the Choosing River, Chinese forces annihilate an American task force.

1967 Charles DeGaulle vetoes Great Britain's entry into the Common Market again.

1984 Britain and Spain sign the Brussels Agreement to enter discussions over the status of Gibraltar.

2001 Hubble Space Telescope discovers a hydrogen atmosphere on planet Osiris, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.


Born on November 27

1870 Joe Mack, builder of gasoline-powered delivery wagons which eventually evolved into the Mack Truck Company.

1942 Jimi Hendrix, influential rock musician.

1955 Bill Nye, scientist, educator, TV host; known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, host of the Disney/PBS children's show of the same name.

JOTD

My friend was flabbergasted. She'd read that in a recent survey, our home state of California was ranked 47 in a list of the nation's smartest states. "Can you believe that?" she fumed. "We're 47 out of 52!"