On This Day (November 27)

[MSFixR]

511 - Clovis I, King of the Franks died.
1095 – At the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade, declaring bellum sacrum against the Muslims who had occupied the Holy Land and were attacking the Eastern Roman Empire.
1701 - Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer born. (d. 1744)
1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician died. (b. 1815)

Ada Lovelace

1895 – Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.
1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host born. (d. 1998)

Buffalo Bob Smith & Howdy Doody

1924 - In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1926 - Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg in the Historic Triangle on the Virginia Peninsula, United States began.
2001 – The Hubble Space Telescope detected sodium in the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD 209458b, the first planetary atmosphere outside our solar system to be measured.
2005 – French oral and maxillofacial surgeon Bernard Devauchelle performed the world's first partial face transplant on a living human, replacing Isabelle Dinoire's face after her Labrador dog mauled her.

[Plastic Flute]

King of the Franks.. lol. One would have thought he would already have been Catholic.

[MSFixR]

He was head hotdog - King of the Franks, get it? Har, har, har.