TODAY IN HISTORY

On Nov. 27, 1924, Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade took place.

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 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president.

In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. (White served five years for manslaughter.)

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 2015, a gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing three people and injuring nine.*