November 27
1841 - Thirty-give Amistad survivors return to Africa.
1852 - Lord Byron's daughter Ada died. She had assisted Charles Babbage with his "analytical engine" and is credited with inventing modern computer lanugage.
1895 - Alfred Nobel signed his last will, which established the Nobel Prize.
1901 - The 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 French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
1962 - The first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company's Renton Plant near Seattle.
1970 - Pope Paul VI was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
1973 - Gerald R. Ford was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president of the United States.
1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor. (White served five years for manslaughter; he took his own life in October 1985.)
1985 - The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord, giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.
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 H.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.
2011 - In an unprecedented move against an Arab nation, the Arab League approved economic sanctions against Syria, to pressure Damascus to end its deadly suppression of an 8-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad.
2016 - President-elect Donald Trump claimed that “millions” had voted illegally in the national election, scoffing at Hillary Clinton’s nearly 2 million-vote edge in the popular vote and returning to his campaign mantra of a rigged race even as he prepared to enter the White House in less than two months.
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.”
Birthdays
34 - Lashana Lynch (actress)
36 - Alison Pill (actress)
37 - Sanna Nielsen (singer)
45 - Jaleel White (actor)
47 - Shaunie O'Neal (actress/producer)
50 - Kirk Acevedo (actor)
52 - Elizabeth Marvel (actress)
53 - Michael Vartan (actor)
57 - Robin Givens (actress)
61 - Michael Rispoli (actor)
65 - William Fichtner (actor)
66 - Bill Nye (TV personality)
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Today in Sports History - November 27
1940 - Michigan running back Tom Harmon wins the Heisman Trophy.
1960 - Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings) scored his 1,000th point.
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 (Kansas City Chiefs) became the 5th quarterback to surpass 40,000 yards passing.
1997 - Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions moves into second place on the NFL's all-time rushing list.
2003 - Luc Robitaille (Los Angeles Kings) earned his 700th career assist.
2009 - Golfer Tiger Woods crashed his SUV outside his Florida mansion, sparking widespread attention to reports of marital infidelity.
1841 - Thirty-give Amistad survivors return to Africa.
1852 - Lord Byron's daughter Ada died. She had assisted Charles Babbage with his "analytical engine" and is credited with inventing modern computer lanugage.
1895 - Alfred Nobel signed his last will, which established the Nobel Prize.
1901 - The 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 French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
1962 - The first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company's Renton Plant near Seattle.
1970 - Pope Paul VI was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
1973 - Gerald R. Ford was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president of the United States.
1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor. (White served five years for manslaughter; he took his own life in October 1985.)
1985 - The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord, giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.
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 H.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.
2011 - In an unprecedented move against an Arab nation, the Arab League approved economic sanctions against Syria, to pressure Damascus to end its deadly suppression of an 8-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad.
2016 - President-elect Donald Trump claimed that “millions” had voted illegally in the national election, scoffing at Hillary Clinton’s nearly 2 million-vote edge in the popular vote and returning to his campaign mantra of a rigged race even as he prepared to enter the White House in less than two months.
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.”
Birthdays
34 - Lashana Lynch (actress)
36 - Alison Pill (actress)
37 - Sanna Nielsen (singer)
45 - Jaleel White (actor)
47 - Shaunie O'Neal (actress/producer)
50 - Kirk Acevedo (actor)
52 - Elizabeth Marvel (actress)
53 - Michael Vartan (actor)
57 - Robin Givens (actress)
61 - Michael Rispoli (actor)
65 - William Fichtner (actor)
66 - Bill Nye (TV personality)
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Today in Sports History - November 27
1940 - Michigan running back Tom Harmon wins the Heisman Trophy.
1960 - Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings) scored his 1,000th point.
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 (Kansas City Chiefs) became the 5th quarterback to surpass 40,000 yards passing.
1997 - Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions moves into second place on the NFL's all-time rushing list.
2003 - Luc Robitaille (Los Angeles Kings) earned his 700th career assist.
2009 - Golfer Tiger Woods crashed his SUV outside his Florida mansion, sparking widespread attention to reports of marital infidelity.
