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Today in history is NOVEMBER 27

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Significant events
1526 - Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent begins a visit to Austria.
1895 - Alfred Nobel bequeaths all his wealth to the Nobel Foundation.
1920 - The RSFSR Soviet Socialist Republic issued a decree "On the restoration of cotton growing in Turkestan and the Azerbaijani SSR."
1967 - France vetoes Britain's entry into the Common Market.
1983 - A Colombian plane crashes on landing at Madrid airport, killing 193 people.
1995 - The Republic of Azerbaijan established diplomatic relations with Lithuania.
2001 - The Hubble Space Telescope discovers the atmosphere outside the solar system for the first time.
2002 - UN inspectors resume searching for chemical weapons in Iraq after a four-year hiatus.
2006 - For the first time in the CIS, Baku hosted an international conference of women lawyers.
Births
1701 - Anders Celsi - Swedish astronomer.
1895 - Alexandre Dumas (son) - French writer.
1921 - Alexander Dubcek - Slovak statesman
1940 - Bruce Lee - legendary Chinese martial artist, athlete, actor (b. 1973)
1956 - Asgar Rahimov, Azerbaijani theater and film actor.
1960 - Yulia Tymoshenko becomes Ukraine's first female prime minister.

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