November 27, Harvey Milk and George Moscone fatally shot
Today is Thursday, November 27, the 331st day of the year 2025. There are 34 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On November 27, 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (mah-SKOH’-nee) and City Supervisor and gay rights activist Harvey Milk were fatally shot inside City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White.
Also on this date:
In 1895, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel signed his will establishing the Nobel Prizes, leaving most of his fortune in annual prizes for outstanding achievement in the fields of peace, physics, chemistry, literature, physiology or medicine. (The Economics Prize was added in the 1960s).
In 1924, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade — billed as a “Christmas Parade” — took place in New York.
In 1934, bank robber and “Public Enemy No. 1” Lester Joseph Gillis, better known as George “Baby Face” Nelson, was killed in a shootout with FBI agents in Barrington, Illinois.
In 1970, Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was lightly injured at Manila airport by a Bolivian painter brandishing a dagger and disguised as a priest.
In 2003, President George W. Bush traveled to Iraq in extraordinary secrecy and security to spend Thanksgiving Day with American troops and thank them for “defending the American people from danger.”
In 2015, a gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing three people and injuring nine. (The prosecution of suspect Robert Lewis Dear remained stalled in court after he was repeatedly declared mentally incompetent to stand trial.)
Today’s birthdays:
- Fashion designer Manolo Blahnik is 83 years old.
- Director Kathryn Bigelow is 74 years old.
- Science educator and television host Bill Nye (aka Science Guy) is 70 years old.
- The writer and diplomat Caroline Kennedy is 68 years old.
- Actor Robin Givens is 61 years old.
- Actor Michael Vartan is 57 years old.
- Baseball Hall of Famer Iván Rodríguez is 54 years old.
- Actor Kirk Acevedo is 54 years old.
- Rapper Twista is 52 years old.
- Actor Jaleel White is 49 years old.
- Actor Lashana Lynch is 38 years old.
