TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Nov. 27, 1924

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

ALSO ON THIS DATE

1901

The U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.

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.

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.

1962

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

1967

The Beatles album “Magical Mystery Tour” was released in the United States by Capitol Records.

1973

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

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.

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.