November 27: What Happened on This Day in History (Elementary Level)?

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1. 1895 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs hislast will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
2. 1924 - In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
3. 1968 - Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, in an ABA game Kentucky Colonels vs. Los Angeles Stars.
4. 1971 - 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.
5. 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planetOsiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
6. Famous Birthdays: Anders Celsius (Swedish astronomer), Charles Scott Sherrington (English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate), Lars Onsager (Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate), Fe del Mundo (Filipino pediatrician), Cornelius Vanderbilt II (American businessman)

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