YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 27

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2018. There are 34 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1901: The U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C.

1910: New York’s Pennsylvania Station opens.

1924: Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a “Christmas Parade” — takes place in New York.

1962: The first Boeing 727 rolls out at the company’s Renton Plant.

1967: The Beatles album “Magical Mystery Tour” is released in the United States by Capitol Records.

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.

2005: Doctors in France perform the world’s first partial face transplant on a woman disfigured by a dog bite; Isabelle Dinoire receives the lips, nose and chin of a brain-dead woman in a 15-hour operation.

2017: As he tries to bolster his support in the wake of a sexual harassment allegation, Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken apologizes to “everyone who has counted on me to be a champion for women.”

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Petersburg Presbyterian Church celebrates the installation of a pipe organ with a concert of Christmas music by organist Dick Younger. The instrument was donated by Hudson Presbyterian Church, which got a new organ.

Jordan McMullin, 17, of Vienna, a senior at Kennedy Christian High in Hermitage, has an article on the proliferation of false IDs published in Sassy, an international teen magazine.

A 48-year-old Warren woman is given five years’ probation rather than up to 15 years in prison for sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl.

1978: Tony Napolet resigns as head coach of the Niles Red Dragon football team. The team went 3-7 in the season just ended, the first time since 1958 that a Niles football team had a losing season. He began his coaching career at Warren JFK in 1960 after graduating from Marquette.

Sophomore Curtis Rein of Niles, younger brother of North Carolina State coach Bo Rein, returns a punt 50 yards for the Wolfpack, giving the brothers’ team an upset 24-21 victory over the Virginia Cavaliers.

Actor Paul Newman returns to his alma mater, Kenyon College, to direct 30 students in the world premiere of “C.C. Pyle and the Bunion Derby” and to open the new $2 million Bolton Theater on campus.

1968: Police have few clues in a daring daylight robbery of an eighth-floor wholesale jewelry store in the Home Savings & Loan building by two well-dressed gunmen who seized an undetermined amount of diamond rings.

About 28,000 Youngstown City Schools students go to school for the last time in 1968; there’s still no money to transport parochial school pupils during the public school shutdown.

Auto dealer L.F. Donnell is re-elected president of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce.

1943: Sales-tax collections in Mahoning County for the week ending Nov. 13 totaled $30,043, compared to $34,455 during the same period a year earlier.

U.S. Office of Price Administration Commissioner Fred Glover hears charges that Youngstown Manufacturing Co., a war plant, violated gasoline-rationing regulations by permitting employees to drive to The Pines, a nightclub owned by the company president.

Rates for hauling iron ore down the Great Lakes are raised 8 percent by the OPA, which will cost Youngstown district’s 26 furnaces an estimated $300,000 a year.