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On November 27, 1992, a occurrence destroyed parts of the Hofburg Palace successful Vienna, Austria, threatening the celebrated Lipizzaner stallions. File Photo by Gugerell/Wikimedia
Today is Sunday, Nov. 27, the 331st time of 2022 with 34 to follow.
The satellite is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
Those calved connected this day are nether the motion of Sagittarius. They see Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer/inventor of the centigrade thermometer, successful 1701; Filipino pediatrician Fe del Mundi, archetypal pistillate admitted to Harvard Medical School, successful 1911; entertainer "Buffalo Bob" Smith successful 1917; writer Gail Sheehy successful 1937; actor/martial arts prima Bruce Lee successful 1940; vocalist Eddie Rabbitt successful 1941; Olympic golden medal-winning sprinter Henry Carr successful 1941; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame subordinate Jimi Hendrix successful 1942; histrion James Avery successful 1945; movie manager Kathryn Bigelow successful 1951 (age 71); histrion Curtis Armstrong successful 1953 (age 69); Bill Nye "The Science Guy," successful 1955 (age 67); Caroline Kennedy, ambassador/daughter of President John F. Kennedy, successful 1957 (age 65); histrion Fisher Stevens successful 1963 (age 59); histrion Robin Givens successful 1964 (age 58); histrion Jaleel White successful 1976 (age 46); histrion Aubrey Peeples successful 1993 (age 29).
On this day successful history:
In 1901, the U.S. War Department authorized instauration of the Army War College to instruct commissioned officers. It was built successful Leavenworth, Kan.
In 1924, the archetypal Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade took spot successful New York.
In 1940, 2 months aft Gen. Ion Antonescu seized powerfulness successful Romania and forced King Carol II to abdicate, much than 60 aides of the exiled king, including Nicolae Iorga, a erstwhile curate and acclaimed historian, were executed.
In 1970, a antheral with a weapon attempted to injure Pope Paul VI astatine Manila Airport successful the Philippines.
In 1978, a disgruntled erstwhile San Francisco authoritative shot and killed Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the archetypal openly cheery authoritative elected successful California.
In 1989, Virginia certified Douglas Wilder arsenic the archetypal elected U.S. African-American politician by a borderline of 0.38 percent of the vote.
In 1992, a fire destroyed parts of the Hofburg Palace successful Vienna, Austria, threatening the celebrated Lipizzaner stallions.
In 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush arrived successful Iraq nether the screen of acheronian successful a surprise sojourn to U.S. forces successful Baghdad. The president mingled with troops gathered successful a hangar for Thanksgiving meal and joined the serving line, dishing retired maize and saccharine potatoes. Bush's 2 1/2 hr enactment marked the archetypal clip a U.S. president traveled to Iraq.
In 2020, salient Iranian atomic idiosyncratic Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated adjacent Tehran.
A thought for the day: "I'm similar an costly paper ... you tin look but you can't afford." -- Russian tennis subordinate Anna Kournikova
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