Today is Tuesday, November 27, the 332
nd
day of 2012. There are 34 days left in the year.
1815 ― Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic
1870 ― N.Y. Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
1895 ― Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
1903 ― The opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)
1941 ― USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat
1951 ― First rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, N.M.
1958 ― USSR abrogates allied wartime agreements on control of Germany
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