TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, NOV. 27, the 331st day of 2017. There are 34 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:

On this date in 1967, the Beatles album “Magical Mystery Tour” was released in the United States by Capitol Records.

In 1815, the constitution for the Congress Kingdom of Poland was signed by Russian Czar Alexander I, who was also king of Poland.

In 1901, the U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.

In 1910, New York’s Pennsylvania Station officially opened.

In 1924, Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a “Christmas Parade” — took place in New York.

In 1937, the musical revue “Pins and Needles,” produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, opened in New York.

In 1942, during World War II, the Vichy French navy scuttled its ships and submarines in Toulon to keep them out of the hands of German troops.

In 1945, General George C. Marshall was named special U.S. envoy to China by President Harry S. Truman to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists.

In 1953, playwright Eugene O’Neill died in Boston at age 65.

In 1962, the first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company’s Renton Plant.

In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. White served five years for manslaughter; he committed suicide in Oct. 1985.

In 1983, 181 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid’s Barajas airport.

In 1989, a bomb blamed on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian Avianca Boeing 727, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Author Gail Sheehy is 80. Footwear designer Manolo Blahnik is 75. Academy Awardwinning director Kathryn Bigelow is 66. TV host Bill Nye (“Bill Nye, the Science Guy”) is 62. Actor William Fichtner is 61. Caroline Kennedy and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri are 60. Rock musician Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds) is 58. Jazz composer/big band leader Maria Schneider is 57. Rock musician Charlie Benante (Anthrax) and rock musician Mike Bordin (Faith No More) are 55. Actor Fisher Stevens is 54. Actress Robin Givens is 53. Actor Michael Vartan is 49. Actor Kirk Acevedo is 46. Actor Jaleel White is 41. Actor Arjay Smith is 34. Actress Alison Pill is 32. Actress Lashana Lynch (TV: “Still Star Crossed”) is 30. Actress-singer Aubrey Peeples is 24.