Today in History — Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022 (corrected and reposted)
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Today is Sunday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2022. There are 34 days left in the year.
Kansas City sports history, Nov. 27:
• 1994, Joe Montana of the Kansas City Chiefs becomes the fifth quarterback to surpass 40,000 passing yards in a 10-9 loss at Seattle.
Gordie Howe history (NHL legend), Nov. 27:
• 1960, Detroit’s Gordie Howe scores his 1,000th point with an assist, and the Red Wings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-0. It’s Howe’s 938th NHL game.
• 1961, Detroit's Gordie Howe becomes the first to play 1,000 NHL games.
• 1965, Gordie Howe becomes the first NHL player to score 600 goals. The milestone comes in Detroit’s 3-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens.
Beatles history, Nov. 27:
• 1967, The Beatles album “Magical Mystery Tour” was released in the United States by Capitol Records. Side 1 consisted of Magical Mystery Tour, The Fool on the Hill, Flying (instrumental credited to all four Beatles), Blue Jay Way (George Harrison), Your Mother Should Know and I Am the Walrus, which were used in the MMT film. Side 2 consisted of Hello Goodbye, Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Baby You’re a Rich Man and All You Need is Love.
• 1970, George Harrison’s three-record set masterpiece All Thing Must Pass was released in the U.S. The album featured My Sweet Lord, Isn’t It a Pity (Versions 1 and 2), All Things Must Pass, What is Life, Beware of Darkness, Wah-Wah, I’d Have You Anytime, If Not for You, Behind That Locked Door, Let it Down, Run of the Mill, Apple Scruffs, Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let it Roll), Awaiting On You All, I Dig Love, Art of Dying, Hear Me Lord, Out of the Blue, It’s Johnny’s Birthday, Plug Me In, I Remember Jeep and Thanks for the Pepperoni. The remaster added I Live For You and My Sweet Lord (2000). The triple album went six times platinum and is the best selling album by a solo Beatle.
• 1995, The Beatles’ “Anthology One” set a record for first-week album sales, selling 1.2 million copies. That record has since been broken.
• 2000, The Beatles topped the Billboard 200 albums chart with their collection of 27 No. 1 songs appropriately titled 1, proving that the band’s appeal spanned generations.
Elvis Presley history, Nov. 27:
• 1969, Elvis Presley’s double album “From Memphis to Vegas/Vegas to Memphis” peaked at No. 12 on the U.S. charts.
Music history, Nov. 27:
• 1896, “Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss is first performed in Frankfurt, Germany. Now it is known as the opening theme for Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Brazilian-Portuguese musician/producer Eumir Deodato released a rocking version of the song in the early 1970s.
• 1935, Al Jackson Jr. (a founding member of Booker T and the MG’s, drums) was born — he was murdered in 1975.
• 1942, Guitarist/singer/songwriter Johnny Allen Hendrix (eventually known as James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix) was born in Seattle. He died on Sept. 18, 1970. Hendrix’ mainstream career lasted only four years, but he is widely regarded as one of the most influential guitarists in history and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as “the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music.”
• 1957, The album “The Chirping Crickets” by Buddy Holly and the Crickets was released. It contained the singles “That’ll Be the Day,” ″Maybe Baby,” and “Not Fade Away.”
• 1969, The Rolling Stones opened a four-night stand at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Portions of the first two concerts were released on the album “Get Yer Ya-Yas Out.”
• 1994, A fire in a disco in f*ckin, northern China, kills 233 people.
• 1997, Bjork was admitted to the hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland, with a high fever. The singer/actor was forced to cancel many upcoming dates due to a kidney infection.
• 2003, The Rolling Stones made more than $1 billion from 1989-2002 (royalties, album sales and tour revenue).
• 2006, Actor Pamela Anderson divorced rapper Kid Rock after only four months of marriage. Anderson also had been married to and divorced from Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee.
• 2006, Actor Selma Blair divorced musician/TV host Ahmet Zappa after two years.
• 2021, The Taylor Swift song “All Too Well” hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It became the longest No. 1 hit, at 10 minutes, 13 seconds (10:13). It beat the previous record-holder, Don McLean’s “American Pie” at 8:42.
American Revolution/Revolutionary War, Nov. 27:
• 1746, Robert R. (or R.R.) Livingston, also known as “the Chancellor," was born in New York. In 1776, he represented the Provincial Congress of New York at the Continental Congress and helped to draft the Declaration of Independence.
American Civil War, Nov. 27:
• 1863, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and some of his men tunneled out of the newly opened Ohio State Penitentiary and escaped to the South.
• 1863, Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
• 1864, Union General Judson Kilpatrick began pursuing Confederate General Joseph Wheeler between Waynesboro and Millen, Ga. The engagement ended on Dec. 4. The battle allowed Union General Sherman to march to Savannah, Ga., on his famous “March to the Sea.”
American Indian Wars, Nov. 27:
• 1868, Gen. George A. Custer’s troops attacked a group of Native Americans (Cheyenne tribe) at the Wash*ta River, Okla., killing their chief Black Kettle.
Pre-World War I history, Nov. 27:
• 1901, The U.S. War Department in Washington, D.C., authorized creation of the Army War College to instruct commissioned officers. It was built in Leavenworth, Kan.
World War I history, Nov. 27:
• 1914, German commander Paul von Hindenburg celebrated the Warsaw campaign. “I am proud at having reached the highest military rank at the head of such troops. Your fighting spirit and perseverance have in a marvelous manner inflicted the greatest losses on the enemy. Over 60,000 prisoners, 150 guns and about 200 machine guns have fallen into our hands, but the enemy is not yet annihilated. Therefore, forward with God, for King and Fatherland, till the last Russian lies beaten at our feet. Hurrah!”
• 1919, Bulgaria signs World War I peace treaty, which yields territory to Greece and Yugoslavia.
• 1940, Two months after Gen. Ion Antonescu seized power in Romania and forced King Carol II to abdicate, more than 60 aides of the exiled king, including Nicolae Iorga, a former minister and acclaimed historian, were executed.
•1940, At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
•1940, Germany annexes French province of Lorraine during World War II.
• 1941, Australia’s HMAS Parramatta is sunk by a German submarine in the Mediterranean near Tobruk, Libya.
• 1941, The British 13th Army Corps reaches Tobruk, Libya.
• 1941, The U.S.S.R. begins a counter offensive, causing Germany to retreat.
• 1942, The Vichy French navy scuttled its ships and submarines in Toulon to keep them out of the hands of the Nazi troops.
• 1944, An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire, England, kills 70 people.
• 1944, The Battle of Peleliu ended. The battle had begun on Sept. 15. The Battle of Peleliu, when considering the number of men involved, had the highest casualty rate of any battle in the Pacific.
• 1944, United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull retired from office due to poor health. He was replaced by Edward R. Stettinius. The next year Hull won the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1945, General George C. Marshall was named special U.S. envoy to China by President Harry S. Truman to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists.
• 1945, CARE (then the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) was founded to a send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II.
Korean War history, Nov. 27:
• 1950, United Nations troops retreat in Korea.
• 1951, Ceasefire and demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea.
Vietnam War history, Nov. 27:
•1965, The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
• 1965, More than 35,000 people demonstrate in Washington, D.C., against the war in Vietnam.
U.S. presidency/cabinet/Congress/Supreme Court history, Nov. 27:
• 1963,U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnsondelivered his first address as president to a joint session of Congress five days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• 1973, The U.S. Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who resigned.
• 1974, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspended New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for two years as a result of Steinbrenner’s conviction for illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon and others.
• 1990, The Senate Armed Services Committee opened hearings on the Persian Gulf crisis.
• 1991, The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that led the way for the establishment of a U.N. peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia.
• 1993, In his weekly radio address, President Bill Clinton said enacting comprehensive anti-crime legislation was the first priority for 1994, saying “We have to be concerned that in both our cities and our rural areas, the value of life has been cheapened.”
• 1995, President Bill Clinton presented his case for sending 20,000 U.S. troops on a peacekeeping mission to Bosnia, saying in a prime-time address that "in the choice between peace and war, America must choose peace."
• 1995, House Speaker Newt Gingrich ruled out a 1996 presidential run.
• 1997, A day after saying it would open its presidential palaces to international observers, Iraq declared that U.N. weapons monitors were not included in the invitation.
• 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.
• 2001, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Burns and retired Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni meet with top Israeli and Palestinian officials as part of a U.S. peace initiative.
• 2002, President George W. Bush appointed former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to lead an investigation into why the government had failed to foil the September 11 attacks. The following month, Kissinger stepped down, citing controversy over potential conflicts of interest with his business clients.
• 2002, President George W. Bush gave the go-ahead to open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks.
• 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Iraq under the cover of darkness and extraordinary secrecy and security in asurprise visit to U.S. forces in Baghdad. The president mingled with troops gathered in a hangar for Thanksgiving dinner and joined the serving line, dishing out corn and sweet potatoes. Bush’s 2 1/2 hour stay marked the first time a U.S. president traveled to Iraq. Bush thanked U.S. troops for “defending the American people from danger.”
• 2006, President George W. Bush, stopping over in Estonia en route to a NATO summit in Latvia and meetings in Jordan, intensified diplomatic efforts to quell rising violence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• 2009, Former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced to their friends the engagement of daughter Chelsea to longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky.
• 2010, The State Department released a letter from its top lawyer to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, warning that an expected imminent release of classified cables would put “countless” lives at risk, threaten global counterterrorism operations and jeopardize U.S. relations with its allies.
• 2012, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice met privately with three Republican senators who had indicated they would block her possible nomination to be U.S. secretary of state. The senators said afterward that they were even more troubled by her initial explanation of the attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. The following month, Rice withdrew from consideration to be secretary of state.
• 2012, Seven people stripped naked in U.S. House Speaker John Boehner’s office to protest potential funding cuts for AIDS research. Three of the protesters, all women, were charged with lewd and indecent acts.
• 2012, The U.S. government said consumer confidence reached its highest level in nearly five years, with the help of rising home values, more hiring and lower gas prices.
• 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.
• 2017, As he tried to bolster his support in the wake of a sexual harassment allegation, Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken apologized to “everyone who has counted on me to be a champion for women.”
• 2018, Mississippi Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith won a divisive runoff over Democrat Mike Espy, who had hoped to become the state’s first African-American senator since Reconstruction. Hyde-Smith survived in spite of a video-recorded remark that had been criticized as racist.
• 2018,President Donald Trump signeda billsupporting Hong Kong protesters’ pro-democracy fight against China, putting him at odds with Beijing.
• 2018, President Donald Trump threatened to cut off all federal subsidies to General Motors because of its planned massive cutbacks in the U.S.
• 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.”
Terrorism history, Nov. 27:
• 1971, Two customs officials are shot by an IRA sniper firing upon a British Army patrol investigating a bomb attack on a customs post near Newry, Co Armagh.
• 1987, French hostages Jean-Louis Normandin and Roger Auque were set free by their pro-Iranian captors in West Beirut, Lebanon.
• 1989, A bomb blamed on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian Avianca Boeing 727, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel claimed responsibility for the attack.
Science/space travel/exploration/aviation history, Nov. 27:
• 1971, The Soviet space program’s Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
• 2001, A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
• 2009, Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned from the International Space Station with a smooth touchdown.
Today’s Highlights in History:
On Nov. 27, 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait. The strait was named after him. He was the first European to sail the Pacific from the east.
On Nov. 27, 1895, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, establishes the Nobel Prizes in his will (including the Nobel Peace Prize).
On Nov. 27, 1913, Notre Dame and Texas met for the first time in a Thanksgiving college football showdown. Both carry perfect records into the game, with Notre Dame not losing a game in three years and the Longhorns on a 12-game winning streak. The Fighting Irish build on a 10-7 halftime lead, scoring 20 unanswered points for a 30-7 win at Austin, Texas. The win gives Notre Dame a 7-0 season for rookie coach Jesse Harper.
On Nov. 27, 1924, Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a “Christmas Parade” — took place in New York.
On Nov. 27, 1947, Howie Dallmar of the Philadelphia Warriors sets an NBA record for the most field goal attempts with none made (15) in an 81-59 loss to the New York Knicks.
On Nov. 27, 1949, Steve Van Buren of the Philadelphia Eagles becomes the second NFL player, the first in 16 years, to rush over 200 yards. He runs for 205 yards in a 34-17 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
On Nov. 27, 1960, Trailing 38-7, the Denver Broncos score 31 points to salvage a 38-38 tie with the Buffalo Bills.
On Nov. 27, 1962, The first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company’s Renton Plant near Seattle.
On Nov. 27, 1966, The Washington Football team (now the Commanders) set an NFL regular-season record for most points in a 72-41 victory over the New York Giants. Both teams also set records with 16 TDs and 113 total points.
On Nov. 27, 1968, Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.
On Nov. 27, 1970, Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
On Nov. 27, 1978, Sparky Anderson, who compiled a career mark of 863-586 (.596) during his nine seasons with the Cincinnati Reds, is unexpectedly fired by the team. Anderson said “I’ll never make the mistake of finishing second again.” Cincinnati general manager Dick Wagner announced that the future Hall of Fame skipper will be replaced by John McNamara, who has managed in Oakland and San Diego with mediocre results. Anderson later became the manager of the Detroit Tigers and managed them to the 1984 World Series title.
On Nov. 27, 1980, Dave Williams returned Eddie Murray’s opening kickoff in overtime 95 yards to give the Chicago Bears a 23-17 victory over the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving Day. The Bears tied the game with no time remaining in regulation.
On Nov. 27, 1980, The sitcom “Bosom Buddies,” starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari, premiered on ABC.
On Nov. 27, 1984, Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
On Nov. 27, 1985, Actor Amy Irving married filmmaker Steven Spielberg. They split in 1989.
On Nov. 27, 1989, Virginia certified Douglas Wilder as the first elected U.S. African-American governor by a margin of 0.38% of the vote.
It was 32 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 1990 …
• Britain’s Conservative chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as party leader, paving the way for Major’s appointment as prime minister.
It was 31 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 1991 …
• Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder, speaking for the first time since the implant, asked for a can of beer – a wish that granted two days later.
• The New York Mets and Eddie Murray agree to a two-year deal worth $7.5 million. The All-Star first baseman, who played the previous three seasons with the Dodgers, spent the first dozen years of his Hall of Fame career in Baltimore.
It was 30 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 1992 …
• A fire destroyed parts of the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, threatening the famous Lipizzaner stallions.
• For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela. Rebels who tried to take over Venezuela by bombing the Presidential Palace are defeated by troops 12 hours later.
It was 29 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 1993 …
• After weeks of denial, the British government admits contacts with the Irish Republican Army.
It was 28 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 1994 …
• Defense Secretary William Perry, appearing on NBC’s "Meet the Press," suggested the Bosnian government had lost the war in the Balkans, and acknowledged NATO was powerless to stop the Serbs.
It was 27 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 1995 …
• Liamine Zeroual promises democracy in Algeria when he is sworn in as president.
It was 26 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 1996 …
• A federal judge blocked enforcement of a California initiative to dismantle affirmative action, saying civil rights groups had a "strong probability" of proving it unconstitutional.
• Evan C. Hunziker, an American jailed by North Korea on spy charges, was set free, ending a three-month ordeal.
• A gas explosion in a coal mine in Shanxi province of China kills at least 91 miners.
It was 25 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 1997 …
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York was marred when a gust of wind knocked part of a lamppost onto a 34-year-old woman, fracturing her skull and leaving her in a coma for almost a month.
• 25 people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
• Albanian separatists attack a police station in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. A policeman and a rebel die in the gun battle.
It was 24 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 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.”
• Sensing growing popular pressure to get troops out of Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises a thorough review of Israel’s policy.
• Texas’ Ricky Williams becomes the leading rusher in Division I-A history, breaking Tony Dorsett’s record set 22 years earlier.
It was 23 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 1999 …
• Northern Ireland’s biggest party, the Ulster Unionists, clears the way for the formation of an unprecedented Protestant-Catholic administration, the long-elusive goal of the 1998 Good Friday peace accord.
• The center-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand’s history.
It was 22 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2000 …
• Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s Liberal Party won a third straight majority in the House of Commons.
• The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) rebels prepare to hold unconditional peace negotiations with the Government to end Sri Lanka’s 17-year-long civil war.
• 10-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor dies after being stabbed in the leg by a gang of hooded attackers near his home in Peckham, England.
It was 21 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2001 …
• Afghan factions opened power-sharing talks outside Bonn, Germany.
• Major League Baseball owners vote unanimously to extend baseball commissioner Bud Selig’s contract through 2006. The former Brewers’ owner, who had held the top spot on an interim basis since 1992, was given the title permanently midway through the 1998 season.
It was 20 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2002 …
• Prominent Pakistani doctor Dr. Amer Azia, who admitted to treating Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders before and after the September 11, 2001, attacks, says that the terrorist mastermind is in excellent health and shows no signs of kidney failure.
• U.N. specialists began a new round of weapons inspections in Iraq.
• Michael Finley has his way against the league’s best defensive team scoring a career-high 42 as the unbeaten Dallas Mavericks (14-0) come within one victory of making NBA history with a 102-82 win over the Detroit Pistons.
It was 19 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2003 …
• Iraqi insurgents target U.S. allies in Iraq, killing seven Spaniards, two Japanese, two South Koreans and a Colombian.
• Luc Robitaille (Los Angeles Kings) earned his 700th career assist.
It was 18 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2004 …
• Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
• After 40 years in North Korea and less than one month in a U.S. military jail near Tokyo, U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins became a free man.
• The Ukraine parliament declared the recently held presidential election invalid.
• Chechnya’s president firmly rules out any negotiations with top rebel leaders, saying there is “nothing to talk about” with former separatist president Aslan Maskhadov and warlord Shamil Basayev.
It was 17 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2005 …
• Doctors in France performed the world’s first partial face transplant on a woman disfigured by a dog bite. Isabelle Dinoire received the lips, nose and chin of a brain-dead woman in a 15-hour operation.
• Chechens vote in their first parliamentary elections since Russia sent troops back to the Caucasus region six years before to crush a separatist insurgency.
It was 16 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2006 …
• An early morning fire burned down a group home for the elderly and mentally ill in Anderson, Mo., killing 10 residents and a caretaker. Faulty wiring was cited as the likely cause of the blaze.
• The House of Commons of Canada approves a motion introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada.
• Two rivers in Somalia swell, flooding hundreds of villages and sending thousands fleeing to high ground as international agencies struggle to deliver aid.
• Shaun Alexander rushes for 201 yards to rally the Seattle Seahawks to a 34-24 victory over the Green Bay Packers.
It was 15 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2007 …
• Israeli and Palestinian leaders at a Mideast conference in Annapolis, Md., agreed to formally restart peace talks.
• A Somali immigrant (Nuradin Abdi) was sentenced to 10 years in prison for plotting to blow up an Ohio shopping mall.
• The Dalai Lama announces that the Tibetan people will hold a referendum before he dies to decide whether a new system of leadership would better serve the struggle for self-determination.
• The Milwaukee Brewers and Jason Kendall agree to a one-year contract that guarantees $4.25 million and includes a vesting option for 2009. The 33-year-old catcher, who split time with the Oakland A’s and Chicago Cubs last season, replaces recently traded Johnny Estrada behind the plate.
It was 14 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2008 …
• Australian soldier Lieutenant Michael Fussell, 25, is killed by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Oruzgan province in Afghanistan.
• Indian commandos fought to wrest control of two luxury hotels and a Jewish center from militants, a day after a chain of attacks across Mumbai.
• Iraq’s parliament approved a pact requiring all U.S. troops to be out of the country by Jan. 1, 2012.
• An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board.
• Somali pirates release the Greek-owned cargo ship Centauri and its 25 crew members seized more than two months ago.
• The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) was taken out of service after more than 30 years. The ship was launched on Sept. 20, 1967.
It was 13 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2009 …
• Golf superstar Tiger Woods was treated and released at a hospital after his car slammed into a fire hydrant and tree near his home in suburban Orlando, Fla. Police said Woods was unconscious and they were told his wife smashed a window with a golf club to pull him from the car. The couple divorced the following year.
• A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.
• Graham Gano kicks a 33-yard field goal in overtime to give the Las Vegas Locomotives a 20-17 victory over the Florida Tuskers in the inaugural UFL championship game.
It was 12 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2010 …
• The United States and South Korea prepared for war games as South Koreans demand vengeance over a deadly North Korean artillery bombardment that has raised fears of more clashes between the bitter rivals.
• Boise State has its 24-game winning streak snapped after losing 34-31 in overtime to Nevada.
It was 11 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 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.
• The Connecticut women’s basketball team wins its 89th straight at home to set an NCAA record, beating Dayton 78-38, behind Freshman Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis’ 23 points. The win extends the Huskies’ Division I record home winning streak and sets a new NCAA mark, passing Division III Rust (Miss.) College, which won 88 straight at home from 1982-89. No visiting team had beaten UConn at home since Rutgers won the Big East tournament final in 2007.
• Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel finishes second in the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix to retain his Formula 1 World Drivers Championship.
• New Houston Astros’ owner Jim Crane decides to clean house in the front office with the team coming off the worst season in franchise history. Both team President Tal Smith and General Manager Ed Wade get the ax. The new President is George Postolos, while assistant GM Dave Gottfried takes over for Wade on an interim basis while a search for a permanent replacement begins.
• The Seattle Mariners traded pitcher Josh Lueke to Tampa Bay for catcher John Jaso.
It was 10 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2012 …
• The remains of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are briefly disinterred in a bid to ascertain whether he was poisoned or died of natural causes.
• The Eurozone announces that it will make loans of €43.7 billion to Greece.
• France announces that it plans to vote in favor of recognizing a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly, becoming the first major European country to come out in favor and dealing a setback to Israel.
• Philadelphia Phillies’ catcher Carlos Ruiz, coming off the best season of his career, is handed a 25-game suspension at the start of next season for testing positive for amphetamines.
It was 9 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2013 …
• Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is stripped of his mandate as senator after being sentenced to a one-year prison term for tax fraud.
• In a short ceremony inside their Chicago apartment, Vernita Gray and her partner of five years, Patricia Ewert, made Illinois history as they became the first gay couple to wed under the state’s new law legalizing same-sex marriage.
• Rising anger over deadly drone attacks spurred a Pakistani political party to reveal the identity of what it said was the top U.S. spy in the country and demand he be tried for murder.
• Part of the stadium that will host the 2014 World Cup opener collapses, killing two workers and aggravating already urgent concerns Brazil will not be ready for soccer’s signature tournament.
• Tara VanDerveer becomes the fifth women’s coach to reach 900 victories with No. 6 Stanford’s 83-59 win over Florida Gulf Coast. VanDerveer joins Pat Summitt, Sylvia Hatchell, C. Vivian Stringer and Jody Conradt with the milestone win.
• The Minnesota Twins, who finished in last place with the worst starting pitcher earned run average in the majors last year, begin to address the problem with a rare dip in the free agent pool, signing pitcher Ricky Nolasco to a multi-year deal.
It was 8 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2014 …
• Reflecting its lessening oil clout, OPEC decided to keep its output target on hold and sit out falling crude prices.
• Australian surfer Stephanie Gilmore won her sixth women’s world surfing title. She added a seventh title in 2018. Her other WSL World Tour titles came in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012.
It was 7 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2015 …
• A gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., 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.
• A subdued France paid homage to those killed in the Paris attacks two weeks earlier, honoring each of the 130 victims by name as President Francois Hollande pledged to “destroy the army of fanatics” who had claimed so many young lives.
• James Harden scored 50 points to lead Houston past Philadelphia 116-114 for the 76ers’ 27th straight loss dating to last season, the longest losing streak in major U.S. pro sports. The previous record was set by the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1976-77 and matched by the 76ers in 2013-14.
• The Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent pitcher J.A. Happ, who pitched for them from 2012 to 2014, for three years and $36 million. Happ is coming off a great second half with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Happ also has pitched for the Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Twins and St. Louis Cardinals during his career.
It was 6 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2016 …
• Argentina won its first Davis Cup title when Federico Delbonis swept past Ivo Karlovic in straight sets to complete a stunning 3-2 comeback win over Croatia.
• Justin Tucker makes all four of his field goal attempts, including ones from 52, 54 and 57 yards, in Baltimore’s 19-14 victory over Cincinnati. Tucker has made 34 field goals in a row, including 27 this season, and has connected on all 15 conversion. It is Tucker’s 11th game with at least four field goals since entering the NFL in 2012.
• Nico Rosberg finishes second in the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to wrestle the title away from Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton. Nico, the son of 1982 Formula One champion Keke Rosberg, finishes with 385 points to Hamilton’s 380. Graham Hill (1962, 1968) and Damon Hill (1996) are the only other father and son to have won the title. He then announces his retirement from F1 driving.
• Henry Burris throws an 18-yard touchdown pass to Ernest Jackson in overtime and the Ottawa Redblacks win the Grey Cup, beating the Calgary Stampeders 39-33.
It was 5 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2017 …
• Britain’s Prince Harry and actor Meghan Markle announced their engagement. The two married on May 19 and officially became the duke and duch*ess of Sussex.
• Authorities ordered a mass evacuation of people from an expanded danger zone around an erupting volcano on the Indonesian island of Bali. The eruption had closed the island’s international airport, stranding tens of thousands of travelers.
• On Cyber Monday, the Echo Dot was the top-selling electronic item on Amazon, followed by the Fire TV.
It was 4 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2018 …
•The United Statesimposed sanctionson Nicaraguan Vice President and first lady Rosario Murillo de Ortega for corruption and human rights abuses.
It was 3 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2019 …
• Two explosions, 13 hours apart, at a chemical plant in East Texas blew out windows and doors of nearby homes and prompted an evacuation order for more than 50,000 people. Three plant workers sustained minor injuries.
• The Pittsburgh Pirates filled the last remaining managerial vacancy in the majors by hiring former Minnesota Twins bench coach Derek Shelton to succeed Clint Hurdle.
• In the first significant trade of the off-season, the Milwaukee Brewers traded pitcher Zach Davies and outfielder Trent Grisham to the San Diego Padres in return for pitcher Eric Lauer and infielder Luis Urias.
It was 2 years ago today — On Nov. 27, 2020 …
• The coronavirus pandemic kept crowds thin at stores across the country on Black Friday, but a surge in online shopping offered a small beacon of hope for struggling retailers.
• California Gov. Gavin Newson reversed parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, marking the fourth time a governor had blocked her release.
• The Los Angeles Dodgers, the National League representative three out of the last four World Series, ended their 32-year drought without a world championship, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 in Game 6 at Globe Life Field. After winning seven straight divisional titles, the team wins its first Fall Classic since 1988 — a year best remembered for the heroics of Kirk Gibson.
It was 1 year ago today — On Nov. 27, 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, leaving governments around the world scrambling to stop the spread. Britain’s health secretary said two people had tested positive in England. Both cases were related to travel from southern Africa.
Notable deaths, Nov. 27 …
• 8 B.C., Roman poet Horace dies aged 56.
• 395, Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
• 511, King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve.
• 602, At Chalcedon in Asia Minor, Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself.
• 1382, The French army defeats the Flemish army at the Battle of Westrozebeke. Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde is killed and his corpse displayed.
• 1835, James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London — they are the last two people to be executed for sodomy in England.
• 1922, St. Louis Cardinals’ outfielder Austin McHenry dies from a brain tumor at age 27. After hitting .350 with 17 home runs and 110 RBI in 1921, McHenry became ill during the past season and was hitting .303 when forced to quit.
• 1934, Bank robber Baby Face Nelson (Lester Gillis) is killed in a shoot-out with the FBI near Barrington,Ill.
• 1953, Playwright Eugene O’Neill died in Boston at age 65 from cerebellar cortical atrophy.
• 1955, Swiss composer Arthur Honegger, 63, died in Paris.
• 1956, En route to play winter ball for Valencia, Charlie Peete, his wife, and three small children are among the 25 victims who perish when their Caracas-bound plane crashes into the side of a Venezuelan mountain during a severe thunderstorm. The 27-year-old outfielder, who won the American Association batting title hitting .350 for Omaha, played 23 games for the Cardinals last season and was likely to become the first black player to be a regular starter in the St. Louis lineup.
• 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. White took his own life in October 1985.
• 1981, Actor/singer Lotte Lenya died from cancer aged 83. She starred as a jaded aristocrat in “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone” and played murderous, sad*stic villain Rose Klebb in the James Bond film “From Russia With Love.” She also appeared in the football comedy “Semi-Tough.” Lenya won a Tony Award for the English version of “The Threepenny Opera” in 1956. She starred in the first performance of Bertholt Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera” in 1928. The song “Mack the Knife” originated in the opera as “DieMoritatvon Mackie Messe.”
• 1988, Actor John Carradine, known for his roles in horror films, died in Milan, Italy, at age 82.
• 1997, Negro League legend Buck Leonard dies at the age of 90. Known as the “Black Lou Gehrig,” Leonard was a tremendous hitter and a smooth-fielding first baseman for the powerhouse Homestead Grays. In 1972, Major League Baseball recognized his achievements by making him the one of the first Negro League players elected to the Hall of Fame.
• 2005, Actor Jocelyn Brando, older sister of Marlon Brando, died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 86.
• 2005, Joe Jones, who sang the 1961 hit “You Talk Too Much,” died in Los Angeles at age 79.
• 2005,Tony Meehan, drummer with The Shadows, died aged 62 from head injuries sustained in a fall at his London flat in Maida Vale.
• 2007, Asbestos campaigner Bernie Banton, who was at the center of a protracted battle for compensation from Australian building products giant James Hardie, dies of mesothelioma, aged 61.
• 2007, Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor died after being shot in his Florida home by an intruder.
• 2007, Bill Willis, a Hall of Fame guard with the Cleveland Browns and Ohio State’s first black football All-American, died in Columbus, Ohio, at age 86.
• 2007, Dr. J. Robert Cade, inventor of Gatorade, died at age 80.
• 2010, Movie director Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back) died in Los Angeles at age 87.
• 2011, British movie director Ken Russell, 84, died in Lymington, Hampshire, England. Russell directed “Tommy” and “Altered States.”
• 2011, Wales football manager Gary Speed commits suicide at 42.
• 2012, Marvin Miller, who served as head of the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1966 to 1983, died at 95. A veteran union organizer from the steel industry, Miller made the union highly powerful, leading to the first collective bargaining agreement in professional sports in 1968 and other breakthroughs such as salary arbitration and free agency in the 1970s. These advances required a number of strikes, which made Miller a vilified figure among owners. Miller finally was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020.
• 2014, Mystery writer P.D. James, 94, died in Oxford, England.
• 2014, Frank Yablans, 79, a former president of Paramount Pictures who presided over the release of several groundbreaking pictures such as "The Godfather," died in Los Angeles.
• 2014, Cricketer Phillip Hughes dies in a Sydney, Australia, hospital two days after being hit in the head by a short-pitched bouncer at the Sidney Cricket Ground. He was 25.
• 2015, Author P.D. James (Baroness James of Holland Park) died at the age of 94.
• 2020, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian scientist who founded that country’s military nuclear program in the early 2000s, was killed in an attack on the outskirts of Tehran. Iran said Israel was responsible.
Notable birthdays, Nov. 27 (passed away) …
• Anders Celsius (Swedish astronomer/inventor of the centigrade thermometer) in 1701 (died 1744)
• Robert R. (or R.R.) Livingston (also known as “the Chancellor.” He represented the Provincial Congress of New York at the Continental Congress and helped to draft the Declaration of Independence) in 1746 (died 1816)
•Businessman/philanthropist Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1843 (died 1899)
• Filmmaker David Merrick in 1911 (died 2000)
• Filipino pediatrician Fe del Mundo (first woman admitted to Harvard Medical School) in 1911 (died 2011)
• Sportscaster Chick Hearn (Los Angeles Lakers) in 1916 (died 2002)
• Entertainer "Buffalo Bob" Smith (Howdy Dowdy) in 1917 (died 1998)
• Actor Stephen Elliott in 1918 (died 2005)
•Actor/director/screenwriter Marshall Thompson in 1925 (died 1992)
• Former Treasury Secretary William E. Simon in 1927 (died 2000)
• Folk singer Derroll Adams in 1925 (died 2000)
• Filipino journalist/politician Benigno Aquino Jr. in 1932 (assassinated in 1983)
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drummer/songwriter/producer Al Jackson Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Stax Records) in 1935 (shot to death in 1975)
• Director/producer Les Blank in 1935 (died 2013)
• Boxer Willie Pastrano in 1935 (died 1997)
• Author Gail Sheehy in 1936 (died 2020)
• Actor/author/philosopher/martial arts star Bruce Lee in 1940 (died 1973)
• Singer Eddie Rabbitt in 1941 (died 1998)
• Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Henry Carr in 1941 (died 2015)
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Jimi Hendrix in 1942 (died 1970)
• Congressman/ambassador/activist Micky Leland in 1944 (died in plane crash in 1989)
• Actor James Avery (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) in 1945 (died 2013)
• NBA player Don Adams (not the comedian by the same name) in 1947 (died 2013)
• Estonian singer/guitarist Gunnar Graps in 1951 (died 2004)
• Keyboardist/composer/arranger/architecht Lyle Mays (Pat Matheney Group, won 11 Grammy Awards) in 1953 (died 2020)
• Warner Bros. composer Richard Stone in 1953 (died 2001)
• Canadian wrestler Davey Boy Smith in 1962 (died 2002)
• Golfer Haisayuki Sasaki in 1964 (died 2013)
• Rapper Bad Azz (born Jamarr Antonio Stamps, Tha Dogg Pound Gangsta Crips) in 1975 (died in a detention center in 2019 four days after being arrested on domestic violence charges)
• Canadian mixed martial artist Ryan Jimmo in 1981 (died in 2016 when he got into an argument with a truck driver — the trucker ran him over and fled the scene)
Today’s Birthdays — Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022 …
Former MLB player/coach Jose Tartabull (several teams including Kansas City/Oakland A’s, Boston Red Sox, father of MLB player Danny Tartabull) is 84. Footwear designer Manolo Blahnik is 80.
Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is 71.
Media executive/political figure Steve Bannon is 69. Actor Curtis Armstrong is 68. TV host Bill Nye (Bill Nye, the Science Guy) is 67. Actor William Fichtner is 66. Caroline Kennedy is 65. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri is 65. Former MLB player/manager Mike Scioscia is 64. Rock musician Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds) is 63. Actor Michael Rispoli is 62. Jazz composer/big band leader Maria Schneider is 62. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is 62. Former NFL quarterback Ken O’Brien is 62. Actor Samantha Bond is 61. Rock musician Charlie Benante (Anthrax) is 60. Rock musician Mike Bordin (Faith No More) is 60.
Actor Fisher Stevens is 59. Actor Robin Givens is 58. Golfer Danielle Amaccapane is 57. Actor Michael Vartan is 54. Actor Elizabeth Marvel is 53. Rapper Skoob (DAS EFX) is 52. Actor Kirk Acevedo is 51. Pro Football Hall of Fame member Larry Allen (Dallas Cowboys) is 51. MLB Hall of Fame member Ivan Rodriguez is 51. Former NBA player Nick Van Exel is 51. Rapper Twista is 50. Screenwriter/producer Shane Salerno is 50.
Actor Sharlito Copley is 49. Model/television host/actor Samantha Harris is 49. Actor Alec Newman is 48. Former NFL kicker Martin Gramatica (kicked for Kansas State) is 47. Actor Jaleel White (Steve Urkel on Family Matters) is 46. Former MLB player Willie Bloomquist (several teams including Kansas City Royals) is 45. Former MLB player Jimmy Rollins is 44. Violinist Hilary Hahn is 43. Motocross racer Ricky Carmichael is 43. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Jackie Greene (The Black Crowes, The Jackie Greene Band) is 42.
Actor Arjay Smith is 39. NBA player Donta Smith is 39. Voice actress/singer Izumi Kitta is 38. NFL player Domata Peko is 38. Entrepreneur Leslie Dewan is 38. Actor Alison Pill is 37. Actor Lashana Lynch (Still Star-Crossed) is 35. MLB player Bradley Zimmer is 30.
Actor-singer Aubrey Peeples (Nashville, Jem and the Holograms, Sharknado, Rage) is 29. MLB player Nick Heath is 29. Fashion designer Andy Truong is 26. MLB player Eloy Jimenez is 26.
Thoughts for Today — Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022 …
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” — Hong Kong-American Bruce Lee (born on this date Nov. 27, 1940, died 1973).
“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.” — Estonian proverb.
“Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.” — Eugene O’Neill, American playwright (born 1888, died on this date Nov. 27, 1953).
“Pioneers are seldom from the nobility. There were no Dukes on the Mayflower.” — Mack Sennett, Canadian-born American movie producer (1880-1960).
“When men reach their 60s and retire, they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.” — American writer Gail Sheehy (born on this date Nov. 27, 1936, died Aug. 24, 2020).
“No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.” — American author Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945).
“I’m like an expensive menu — you can look but you can’t afford.” — Former Russian-American tennis player Anna Kournikova Iglesias (born on June 7, 1981).
