Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 27, 1967, the Beatles album "Magical Mystery Tour" was released in the United States by Capitol Records.
On this date:
In 1901, the U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.
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.
In 1937, the musical revue "Pins and Needles," produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, opened in New York.
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 U.S. envoy to China by President Harry S. Truman to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists.
In 1953, playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65.
In 1962, the first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company's Renton Plant.
In 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.
In 1983, 181 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport.
In 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.