November 27
1841 - Thirty-five Amistad survivors return to Africa.
1852 - Lord Bryon's daugther Ada died; she had assisted Charles Babbage with his "analytical engine" and is credited with inventing computer programming language.
1895 - Alfred Nobel signed his last will, which established the Nobel Prize.
1901 - The U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.
1910 - New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.
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 - Gerald R. Ford was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become Richard Nixon's new vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew.
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 secretly flew to Iraq to spend Thanksgiving with the troops.
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.)
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.
2021 - The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries, just days after being identified in South Africa.
2022 - Protesters pushed to the brink by China's strict COVID measures in Shanghai called for the removal of the country's all-powerful leader and clashed with police as crowds took to the streets in several cities.
Birthdays
22 - Zoe Colletti (actress)
36 - Lashana Lynch (actress)
38 - Alison Pill (actress)
47 - Jaleel White (actor)
52 - Kirk Acevedo (actor)
54 - Elizabeth Marvel (actress)
59 - Robin Givens (actress)
60 - Fisher Stevens (actor)
63 - Michael Rispoli (actor)
67 - William Fichtner (actor)
68 - Bill Nye (TV host)
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Today in Sports History - November 27
1870 - The New York Times dubbed baseball "The National Game."
1940 - Tom Harmon of Michigan wins the Heisman Trophy.
1956 - The Green Bay Packers select Paul Hornung of Notre Dame with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1960 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings scored his 1,000th career point.
1965 - The Atlanta Falcons select Texas linebacker Tommy Nobis with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1966 - In the highest-scoring NFL game to date, the Washington Redskins defeat the New York Giants 72-41.
1980 - Dave Williams (Chicago Bears) became the first player in NFL history to return a kick for touchdown in overtime.
1994 - Joe Montana of the Kansas City Chiefs became the fifth quarterback in NFL history to throw for more than 40,000 career passing yards.
2013 - Tiger Woods is named the PGA Tour's Golfer of the Year for the 11th time.
2016 - The Ottawa Redblacks upset the heavily favored Calgary Stampeders 39-33 in overtime to win their first Grey Cup.
1841 - Thirty-five Amistad survivors return to Africa.
1852 - Lord Bryon's daugther Ada died; she had assisted Charles Babbage with his "analytical engine" and is credited with inventing computer programming language.
1895 - Alfred Nobel signed his last will, which established the Nobel Prize.
1901 - The U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.
1910 - New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.
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 - Gerald R. Ford was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become Richard Nixon's new vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew.
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 secretly flew to Iraq to spend Thanksgiving with the troops.
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.)
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.
2021 - The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries, just days after being identified in South Africa.
2022 - Protesters pushed to the brink by China's strict COVID measures in Shanghai called for the removal of the country's all-powerful leader and clashed with police as crowds took to the streets in several cities.
Birthdays
22 - Zoe Colletti (actress)
36 - Lashana Lynch (actress)
38 - Alison Pill (actress)
47 - Jaleel White (actor)
52 - Kirk Acevedo (actor)
54 - Elizabeth Marvel (actress)
59 - Robin Givens (actress)
60 - Fisher Stevens (actor)
63 - Michael Rispoli (actor)
67 - William Fichtner (actor)
68 - Bill Nye (TV host)
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Today in Sports History - November 27
1870 - The New York Times dubbed baseball "The National Game."
1940 - Tom Harmon of Michigan wins the Heisman Trophy.
1956 - The Green Bay Packers select Paul Hornung of Notre Dame with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1960 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings scored his 1,000th career point.
1965 - The Atlanta Falcons select Texas linebacker Tommy Nobis with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1966 - In the highest-scoring NFL game to date, the Washington Redskins defeat the New York Giants 72-41.
1980 - Dave Williams (Chicago Bears) became the first player in NFL history to return a kick for touchdown in overtime.
1994 - Joe Montana of the Kansas City Chiefs became the fifth quarterback in NFL history to throw for more than 40,000 career passing yards.
2013 - Tiger Woods is named the PGA Tour's Golfer of the Year for the 11th time.
2016 - The Ottawa Redblacks upset the heavily favored Calgary Stampeders 39-33 in overtime to win their first Grey Cup.