Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 27

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November 27:

• 1095 - At the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade.
• 1868 - Indian Wars: The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment led by George Armstrong Custer defeated Chief Black Kettle and the Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Washita River.
• 1895 - Alfred Nobel (pictured) signed his will, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.
• 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.

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