Today is Saturday, November 27, the 331st day of 2010. There are 34 days left in the year.
1095 _ Pope Urban II preaches first Crusade
1870 _ NY Times dubs baseball ``The National Game"
1885 _ Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made
1895 _ Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
1941 _ USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat
1958 _ USSR abrogates allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
1970 _ Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
1971 _ Soviet Mars 2 becomes first spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1990 _ Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher
1991 _ Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ