On this day, Nov. 27
1901 The U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.
1924 Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a “Christmas Parade” — took place in New York.
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.
1962 The first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company’s Renton Plant near Seattle. 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 had 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. (White served five years for manslaughter; he took his own life in October 1985.)
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.” 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.
2003 President George W. Bush flew to Iraq under extraordinary secrecy and security to spend Thanksgiving with U.S. troops and thank them for “defending the American people from danger.”
2008 Iraq’s parliament approved a pact requiring all U.S. troops to be out of the country by Jan. 1, 2012.
2015 A gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing three people and injuring nine. (The prosecution of suspect Robert Dear stalled in state court, and then federal court, after he was repeatedly found mentally incompetent to stand trial.)
2017 As he tried to bolster his support in the wake of a sexual harassment allegation, Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken apologized to “everyone who has counted on me to be a champion for women.” 2020 President Donald Trump’s legal team suffered another defeat as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected the campaign’s latest effort to challenge Pennsylvania’s election results; Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Trump appointee, wrote that “calling an election unfair does not make it so.”
Today’s birthdays: Footwear designer Manolo Blahnik, 80. Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, 71. TV host Bill Nye (“Bill Nye, the Science Guy”), 67. Actor William Fichtner, 66. Caroline Kennedy, 65. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri, 65. Rock musician Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds), 63. Actor Michael Rispoli, 62. Jazz composer/big band leader Maria Schneider, 62. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, 62. Rock musician Charlie Benante (Anthrax), 60. Rock musician Mike Bordin (Faith No More), 60. Actor Fisher Stevens, 59. Actor Robin Givens, 58. Actor Michael Vartan, 54. Actor Elizabeth Marvel, 53. Rapper Skoob (DAS EFX), 52. Actor Kirk Acevedo, 51. Rapper Twista, 50. Actor Jaleel White, 46. Actor Arjay Smith, 39. Actor Alison Pill, 37. Actor Lashana Lynch (TV: “Still StarCrossed”), 35.