{"id":53940,"date":"2025-11-27T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53940\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:24:10","slug":"on-this-day-nov-27-first-macys-thanksgiving-parade-held-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53940\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Nov. 27: First Macy’s Thanksgiving parade held in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nov. 27 (UPI) — On this date in history:<\/p>\n

In 1901, the U.S. War Department authorized creation of the Army War College to instruct commissioned officers. It was built in Leavenworth, Kan.\n<\/p>\n

In 1924, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade took place in New York. The first three years, it was known as the Macy’s Christmas Parade.<\/p>\n

In 1940, two months after Gen. Ion Antonescu seized power in Romania and forced King Carol II to abdicate, more than 60 aides of the exiled king, including Nicolae Iorga, a former minister and acclaimed historian, were executed.<\/p>\n

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In 1970, a man with a knife attempted to injure<\/a> Pope Paul VI at Manila Airport in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

In 1978, a disgruntled former San Francisco official shot and killed<\/a> Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay official elected in California.<\/p>\n

In 1983, a crippled Colombian jumbo jet crashed in flames<\/a> on approach to the Madrid, Spain, airport, killing 181 people and injuring 11. Among those killed were several notable literary figures invited to a meeting in Colombia, including Mexican novelist Jorge Ibarg\u00fcengoitia, Peruvian novelist Manuel Scorza and Argentine writer Marta Traba.\n<\/p>\n

In 1989, Virginia certified<\/a> Douglas Wilder as the first elected Black American governor by a margin of 0.38 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n

In 1992, a fire destroyed<\/a> parts of the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, threatening the famous Lipizzaner stallions.<\/p>\n

In 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Iraq under the cover of darkness in a surprise visit to U.S. forces in Baghdad<\/a>. The president mingled with troops gathered in a hangar for Thanksgiving dinner and joined the serving line, dishing out corn and sweet potatoes. Bush’s 2 1\/2 hour stay marked the first time a U.S. president traveled to Iraq.<\/p>\n

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In 2022, Mauna Loa, one of the five volcanoes that form Hawaii’s Big Island, erupted<\/a> for the first time in 38 years. Lava flowed for more than two weeks and caused more than $1.5 million in damage.<\/p>\n

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