Today is Friday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2015. There are 34 days left in the year.
Today's birthdays: Author Gail Sheehy is 78. Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (''The Hurt Locker") is 64. TV host Bill Nye ("Bill Nye, the Science Guy") is 60. Actor William Fichtner is 59. Caroline Kennedy is 58. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri (''Thelma and Louise") is 58. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty is 55. Actor Fisher Stevens is 52. Actress Robin Givens is 51.
In 1910, New York's Pennsylvania Station officially opened.
In 1924, Macy's first Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a ''Christmas Parade'' — took place in New York.
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In 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.
In 1945, General George C. Marshall was named special US envoy to China to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists.
In 1962, the first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company's Renton Plant.
In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.
In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death in City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.
In 2005, doctors in France performed the world's first partial face transplant, on a woman disfigured by a dog bite.