TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SATURDAY, NOV. 27, the 331st day of 2021. There are 34 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date 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 took his own life in October 1985.) In 1901, the U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C. In 1924, Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a “Christmas Parade” — took place 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 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 near Seattle. In 1967, the Beatles album “Magical Mystery Tour” was released in the United States by Capitol Records. In 1970, Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest. In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned. In 1998, answering 81 questions put to him three weeks earlier, President Bill Clinton wrote the House Judiciary Committee that his testimony in the Monica
Lewinsky affair was “not false and misleading.” In 2000, a day after George W. Bush was certified winner of Florida’s presidential vote, Al Gore laid out his case for letting the courts settle the nation’s long-count election. In 2007, a Somali immigrant (Nuradin Abdi) was sentenced to 10 years in prison for plotting to blow up an Ohio shopping mall. In 2015, a gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing three people and injuring nine. (Suspect Robert Dear was sent to a psychiatric hospital after being deemed incompetent for trial; he was charged in federal court after his prosecution in state court stalled.) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Footwear designer Manolo Blahnik is 79. Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is 70. TV host Bill Nye (“Bill Nye, the Science Guy”) is 66. Actor William Fichtner is 65. Caroline Kennedy and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri are 64. Rock musician Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds) is 62. Actor Michael Rispoli and jazz composer/big band leader Maria Schneider are 61. Rock musicians Charlie Benante (Anthrax) and Mike Bordin (Faith No More) are 59. Actor Fisher Stevens is 58. Actor Robin Givens is 57. Actor Michael Vartan is 53. Actor Elizabeth Marvel is 52. Rapper Skoob (DAS EFX) is 51. Actor Kirk Acevedo and rapper Twista are 49. Actor Jaleel White is 45. Actor Arjay Smith is 38. Actor Alison Pill is 36. Actor Lashana Lynch (TV: “Still Star-Crossed”) is 34.