On this day in history - Today, November, 27

Today in History

• 2005 World’s first successful partial face transplant

  Drs Bernard Devauchelle, Benoit Lengelé, and Jean-Michel Dubernard used donor tissue to reconstruct

• 2001 Hubble detects the first planetary atmosphere outside the Solar System

  The space telescope detected sodium on HD 209458 b, an exoplanet also known as Osiris. Belonging to

• 1989 World’s first living liver transplant

  21-month old Alyssa Smith became the first person to receive a liver transplant from a living donor,

• 1978 Harvey Milk and George Moscone are assassinated

  Milk was the first openly-gay person to be elected in local government in California. He and George

• 1895 Alfred Nobel signs his last will

  Alfred Nobel signed his last will which called for his estate and fortune that he made as the invent