Today is Saturday, Nov. 27, the 332nd day of 2004. There are 34 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Saturday, Nov. 27, the 332nd day of 2004. There are 34 days left in the year. On this date in 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, are shot to death inside City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White.
In 1901, the U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C. In 1910, New York's Pennsylvania Station opens. In 1942, during World War II, the French navy at Toulon scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. In 1945, Gen. George C. Marshall is named special U.S. envoy to China to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists. In 1953, playwright Eugene O'Neill dies in Boston at age 65. In 1970, Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, is slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest. In 1973, the Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned. In 1983, 183 people are killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas airport. In 1985, the British House of Commons approves the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland. In 1989, 107 people are killed when a bomb blamed by police on drug traffickers destroys a Colombian jetliner.
November 27, 1979: Matt Bahr kicks a 33-yard field goal with 13 seconds remaining in overtime to give the Pittsburgh Steelers a 33-30 win over the Cleveland Browns. NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who believes in parity and is known to want to see some new faces in the Super Bowl, was quoted as saying he hated to see the Steelers win. Steelers Coach Chuck Noll took offense.
The city of Niles has evaded financial default only by purchasing its own notes and by using its electric utility revenues to pay for city operations, says state Auditor Thomas E. Ferguson.
Warren's mayor-elect, Daniel J. Sferra, names police Patrolman Stephen J. Papalas to the top position in his administration, city safety/service director.
November 27, 1964: Bishop Emmet M. Walsh announces the appointment of Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J. Lettau as administrator of St. Edward Parish to assist Rt. Rev. Msgr. William S. Nash, who remains pastor.
Liza Minelli, 18, daughter of Judy Garland, is engaged to Austrialian singer Peter Allen.
A mob of African students screaming anti-American slogans attacks and burns the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in Cairo, Egypt, to protest the U.S.-Belgian rescue operation in the Congo.
November 27, 1954: Three brothers, aged 17, 20 and 24, confess to police that they are responsible for shooting BB holes in more than 27 windows over the Thanksgiving Day holiday, "just for the fun of it."
The Ohio Turnpike Commission takes steps to block a billboard on private property near Beard Road outside the turnpike right-of-way, planting 18 trees along the right-of-way so as to obscure a full view of the billboard when the trees are in leaf.
November 27, 1929: Carnegie Steel Co. announces it will build an additional bar mill at its McDonald Works, showing the confidence of steel industry leaders in the economy.
Cleveland Ohio Bell Telephone officials announce plans to spend $167 million in Ohio between 1930 and 1934, including $6.5 million in Youngstown.
A meeting to establish a permanent organization to push for a Beaver-Mahoning-Shenango canal project is proposed by Robert J. Tully, general superintendent of the Carnegie Steel Co. at New Castle.