In History Today
It is Monday, November 27, 2023, the 331st day of the year. The year has thirty-four days remaining.
The Historical High Point of Today:
Former supervisor Dan White shot and killed homosexual rights activist Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (mah-SKOH’-nee) on November 27, 1978, inside City Hall. (White committed suicide in October 1985 after serving five years for manslaughter.)
This day:
Washington, D.C. hosted the founding of the U.S. Army War College in 1901.
First held in 1924 in New York, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day procession was dubbed the “Christmas Parade.”
To prevent them from falling into the hands of German forces, the Vichy French navy destroyed its ships and submarines at Toulon (too-LOHN) in 1942.
At the company’s Renton Plant, which is close to Seattle, the first Boeing 727 was introduced in 1962.
A Bolivian painter dressed as a priest brandished a blade at the Manila airport in 1970 when Pope Paul VI was on a visit to the Philippines, inflicting minor injuries.
Gerald R. Ford took over as vice president in 1973 when Spiro T. Agnew resigned, with the Senate voting 92–3 in favour of Ford.
In 1998, President Bill Clinton replied to the House Judiciary Committee stating that his testimony about the Monica Lewinsky case was “not false and misleading,” in response to 81 questions posed to him three weeks before.
Al Gore presented his argument in favour of allowing the courts to decide the country’s long-count election in 2000, the day after George W. Bush was declared the victor of Florida’s presidential contest. read more
To express gratitude to American soldiers for “defending the American people from danger,” President George W. Bush travelled to Iraq in 2003 under extreme secrecy and protection.
A deal requiring all American soldiers to leave Iraq by January 1, 2012 was accepted by the parliament in 2008.
A shooter opened fire on a Colorado Springs, Colorado, Planned Parenthood facility in 2015, leaving three people dead and nine injured. (After Robert Dear was repeatedly determined to be mentally unfit to stand trial, the prosecution of the suspect languished in state and then federal court.)
Democratic senator from Minnesota, Al Franken, apologised to “everyone who has counted on me to be a champion for women” in an attempt to shore up his support after a sexual harassment accusation. Franken was to resign later.
The legal team representing President Donald Trump had yet another setback in 2020 when a federal appeals court located in Philadelphia decisively dismissed the campaign’s most recent attempt to contest the election results in Pennsylvania.
Weeks after being discovered in South Africa, the newly discovered and perhaps more infectious coronavirus variation known as the omicron variant appeared in other European nations in 2021.
Crowds came to the streets in numerous cities in 2022 as demonstrators, driven to the breaking point by China’s severe COVID restrictions in Shanghai, demanded the overthrow of the nation’s autocratic ruler and engaged in violent altercations with law enforcement.
Birthdays for today: Manolo Blahnik is an 81-year-old shoe designer. Kathryn Bigelow, 72, is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. 68-year-old TV presenter Bill Nye, aka “the Science Guy.” The 67-year-old actor William Fichtner (FIHK’-nuhr). The age of Caroline Kennedy is 66.
Filmwriter Callie Khouri, 66, is the winner of an Academy Award. 64-year-old rock guitarist Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds). Michael Rispoli is a renowned actor, aged sixty-three. Maria Schneider, 63, is a jazz composer and large band conductor.
Tim Pawlenty is a 63-year-old former governor of Minnesota. Rock star Charlie Benante (of Anthrax) is sixty-one years old. Mike Bordin is 61 years old and is a rock musician (Faith No More). Fisher Stevens is an actor who is sixty years old. 59-year-old actor Robin Givens. 55-year-old actor Michael Vartan. Elizabeth Marvel, an actress, is 54. At 53, Skoob (DAS EFX) is a rapper. Kirk Acevedo, an actor, is 52. Twista is 51 years old. Jaleel White, an actor, is 47. 40-year-old actor Arjay Smith. Alison Pill, an actress, is 38. The 36-year-old actor Lashana Lynch (TV: “Still Star-Crossed”). source
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