{"id":102243,"date":"2017-11-27T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=102243"},"modified":"2017-11-19T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T14:04:36","slug":"this-week-in-history-156","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/11\/this-week-in-history-156\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nov 27 \u2013 Dec 3, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions – especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.\u201d <\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0– Debbie Ford<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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NOVEMBER 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 <\/strong>Nevsky Express bombing<\/a>: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express<\/a> train between Moscow<\/a> and Saint Petersburg<\/a>, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.<\/p>\n

2006\u00a0 <\/strong>The Canadian House of Commons<\/a> approves a motion tabled by Prime Minister<\/a> Stephen Harper<\/a> recognizing the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois as a nation<\/a> within Canada.<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 <\/strong>The first partial human face transplant<\/a> is completed in Amiens<\/a>, France.<\/p>\n

2004\u00a0 <\/strong>Pope John Paul II<\/a> returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom<\/a> to the Eastern Orthodox Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2001\u00a0 <\/strong>A hydrogen<\/a> atmosphere<\/a> is discovered on the extrasolar planet<\/a> Osiris<\/a> by the Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.<\/p>\n

1999\u00a0 <\/strong>The left-wing Labour Party<\/a> takes control of the New Zealand<\/a> government with leader Helen Clark<\/a> becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

1997\u00a0 <\/strong>Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre<\/a> in Algeria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1992\u00a0 <\/strong>For the second time in a year, military forces<\/a> try to overthrow president Carlos Andr\u00e9s P\u00e9rez<\/a> in Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1991\u00a0 <\/strong>The United Nations Security Council<\/a> adopts Security Council Resolution 721<\/a>, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping<\/a> operations in Yugoslavia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1989\u00a0 <\/strong>Avianca Flight 203<\/a>: A Boeing 727<\/a> explodes in mid-air over Colombia<\/a>, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medell\u00edn Cartel<\/a> will claim responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n

1984\u00a0 <\/strong>Under the Brussels Agreement<\/a> signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar<\/a>, including sovereignty.<\/p>\n

1978\u00a0 <\/strong>The Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party<\/a> (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.<\/p>\n

1978\u00a0 <\/strong>In San Francisco<\/a>, city mayor George Moscone<\/a> and openly gay<\/a> city supervisor<\/a> Harvey Milk<\/a> are assassinated<\/a> by former supervisor Dan White<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1975\u00a0 <\/strong>The Provisional IRA<\/a> assassinates Ross McWhirter<\/a>, after a press conference<\/a> in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1973\u00a0 <\/strong>Twenty-fifth Amendment<\/a>: The United States Senate<\/a> votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford<\/a> as Vice President of the United States<\/a>. (On December 6<\/a>, the House<\/a> will confirm him 387 to 35).<\/p>\n

1971\u00a0 <\/strong>The Soviet space program<\/a>\u2018s Mars 2<\/em><\/a> orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1968\u00a0 <\/strong>Penny Ann Early<\/a> became the first woman to play major professional basketball, for the Kentucky Colonels<\/a> in an ABA<\/a> game against the Los Angeles Stars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1965\u00a0 <\/strong>Vietnam War<\/a>: The Pentagon<\/a> tells US President Lyndon B. Johnson<\/a> that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam<\/a> has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.<\/p>\n

Vietnam War in 1965:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n