Today In History

Today is Friday, Nov. 27, the 332nd day of 2020. There are 34 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

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

ON THIS DATE

› 1701: Astronomer Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale, was born in Uppsala, Sweden.

› 1910: New York’s Pennsylvania Station officially opened.

› 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.

› 1953: Playwright Eugene O’Neill died in Boston at age 65.

› 1962: The first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company’s Renton Plant.

› 1970: Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.

› 1973: The Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.

› 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.

› 2000: A day after George W. Bush was certified the winner of Florida’s presidential vote, Al Gore laid out his case for letting the courts settle the nation’s long-count election.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Footwear designer Manolo Blahnik is 78. Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is 69. TV host Bill Nye (“Bill Nye, the Science Guy”) is 65. Actor William Fichtner is 64. Caroline Kennedy is 63. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri is 63. Rock musician Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds) is 61. Jazz composer/ big band leader Maria Schneider is 60. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is 60. Rock musician Charlie Benante (Anthrax) is 58. Rock musician Mike Bordin (Faith No More) is 58. Actor Fisher Stevens is

57. Actor Robin Givens is

56. Actor Michael Vartan is 52. Rapper Skoob (DAS EFX) is 50. Actor Kirk Acevedo is 49. Rapper Twista is 48. Actor Arjay Smith is 37. Actor Alison Pill is 35. Actor Lashana Lynch (TV: “Still Star-Crossed”) is 33.