On this day... November 27:

On this day...

November 27:  Thanksgiving in the United States (2014) 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, one of the severest storms to strike southern Great Britain, destroyed the first Eddystone Lighthouse offPlymouth, England. 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. 1926 – Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg (pictured), a recreation of a Colonial American city in the Historic Triangle on the Virginia Peninsula, US, began. 1978 – San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gaysupervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by supervisor Dan White. 1999 – The Labour Party defeated the governing National Party in the New Zealand general election, making Labour's Helen Clarkthe first woman to win the office of Prime Minister at an election.