TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Nov. 27, 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.

ON THIS DATE 1924

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

1967

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

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.)