Today is Wednesday, November 27th, the 332nd day of 2024. There are 34 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On November 27, 2003, President George W. Bush flew to Iraq in exceptional secrecy and security to spend Thanksgiving with U.S. troops and thank them for “protecting the American people from harm.”
Also on this date:
In 1924, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade – also known as the “Christmas Parade” – took place in New York.
In 1934, bank robber and “Public Enemy No. 1” Lester Joseph Gillis, better known as George “Baby Face” Nelson, was killed in a shootout with FBI agents in Barrington, Illinois.
In 1970 Pope Paul VI. Slightly injured with a dagger at Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest during a visit to the Philippines.
In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (mah-SKOH’-née) and city manager and gay rights activist Harvey Milk were shot and killed at City Hall by former administrator Dan White.
In 2015, a gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing three people and injuring nine. (Prosecutions against suspect Robert Dear were halted in state court and then in federal court after he was repeatedly found to be mentally unfit to stand trial.)
Today’s birthdays:
- The fashion designer Manolo Blahnik is 82 years old.
- Film director Kathryn Bigelow is 73 years old.
- Political strategist Steve Bannon is 71 years old.
- Science educator and television host Bill Nye is 69 years old.
- The author and diplomat Caroline Kennedy is 67 years old.
- Actor Robin Givens is 60 years old.
- Actor Michael Vartan is 56 years old.
- Baseball Hall of Famer Iván Rodríguez is 53 years old.
- Rapper Twista is 51 years old.
- Actor Jaleel White is 48 years old.
