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November 27, 2025: Fourth Thursday Of
November: The United States: The History Of The United States:
Federal Holidays In The United States: Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving
Day, Thanksgiving [US], American Thanksgiving): -- Thanksgiving is
celebrated, a national holiday celebrated on various other dates
in Canada, some of the Caribbean islands, and Liberia. It began as
a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the
harvest and of the preceding year. Similarly named festival
holidays occur in Germany and Japan. Thanksgiving is celebrated on
the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday
of November in the United States, and around the same part of the
year in other places. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots
in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated
as a secular holiday as well. Thanksgiving Day is the first
American holiday observed, having been proclaimed by President
George Washington on November 26, 1789 as a day of prayer and
public thanksgiving in gratitude for the successful establishment
of the new American democracy. Since 1863, when ffPresident
Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation designating the last
Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving has been
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 2025: Fourth Thursday Of
November: The United States: The History Of The United States:
Federal Holidays In The United States: Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving
Day, Thanksgiving [US], American Thanksgiving): Parades: Parades
In The United State: Parades In New York City: Thanksgiving
Parades (Thanksgiving Day Parades): Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade: -- An annual event held on Thanksgiving Day, one of the
biggest and most anticipated events during this holiday. It's
become a tradition among families to watch the parade on
Thanksgiving Day. The parade was first introduced in 1924 and has
continued to grow and develop since then, becoming an important
part of the holiday season. Each year the floats become bigger and
more elaborate with thousands of volunteers joining in to make
this holiday celebration enjoyable for all those watching from
home or coming to attend the parade. Rowland Hussey Macy was a
businessman born in 1822 in Massachusetts. In 1843, Rowland Macy
opened four dry goods stores to serve the mill industry. He failed
to launch his business and, by 1858, moved to New York City,
renaming his store "R.H. Macy Dry Goods". That store saw
great success, but Macy didn't live long enough to see his vision
actualized. Macy died in 1877 and ownership of the company
eventually went to his partners, brothers Isidor and Nathan
Straus. In 1902 came a great business decision when the flagship
store was moved to Herald Square. What started as one building
expanded through the years to become the world's largest store. In
1978, the building was added to the National Register of Historic
Places and became a National Historic Landmark. It welcomes 20
million visitors every year. Macy's hosts many of its events in
that location, including the Macy's Flower Show, Macy's Santaland,
and Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Each year the building's
windows have elaborate Christmas displays that visitors look
forward to seeing. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is its most
important and famous event. It has been hosted annually in New
York City in Macy's flagship store since 1924. In the first
parade, Macy's employees marched in costumes along with floats, a
band, and live animals. Now, bands compete months ahead to play in
the parade and thousands of people volunteer to help organize the
event. The parades have become grander and more elaborate
throughout the years. The parade introduced its first giant
balloon in 1928. The balloons were initially shaped like various
animals but then developed to feature cartoon characters such as
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 1924: The United States: The
History Of The United States: Federal Holidays In The United
States: Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving [US],
American Thanksgiving): Parades: Parades In The United State:
Parades In New York City: Thanksgiving Parades (Thanksgiving Day
Parades): Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: -- In New York City, the
first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. The Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade is now an annual parade in New York City
presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The
Parade first took place in 1924,:?9? tying it for the
second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States with
America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit (with both parades being
four years younger than Philadelphia's Thanksgiving Day Parade).
The three-hour parade is held in Manhattan, ending outside Macy's
Herald Square, and takes place from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 2025: Fourth Thursday Of
November: The United States: The History Of The United States:
Federal Holidays In The United States: Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving
Day, Thanksgiving [US]): Alice's Restaurant Massacree (Alice's
Restaurant): -- At precisely noon in each time zone across the
country on many classic rock and adult album alternative radio
stations, Arlo Guthrie's satirical talking blues song "Alice's
Restaurant Massacree", commonly known as "Alice's
Restaurant", is played as a Thanksgiving tradition, as the
events described in the song occur on this holiday. It was
released by Reprise Records (Warner Brothers) on November 22,
1967, the day before Thanksgiving. It is the title track to
singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie's 1967 debut album Alice's
Restaurant. The song is a deadpan protest against the Vietnam War
draft, in the form of a comically exaggerated but largely true
story from Guthrie's own life: while visiting acquaintances in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, he is arrested and convicted of
dumping trash illegally, which later endangers his suitability for
the military draft. The title refers to a restaurant owned by one
of Guthrie's friends, artist Alice Brock; although she is a minor
character in the story, the restaurant plays no role in it aside
from being the subject of the chorus and the impetus for Guthrie's
visit. The song was an inspiration for the 1969 film also named
Alice's Restaurant, which took numerous liberties with the story.
The work has become Guthrie's signature song and he has
periodically re-released it with updated lyrics. In 2017, it was
selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by
the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically,
or artistically significant". On Thanksgiving Day 1965
(November 25, 1965), while in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, during a
break from his brief stint in college, 18-year-old Guthrie was
arrested for illegally dumping on private property what he
described as "a half-ton of garbage" from the home of
his friends, teachers Ray and Alice Brock, after he discovered the
local landfill was closed for the holiday. Guthrie and his friend
Richard Robbins appeared in court, pled guilty to the charges,
were levied a nominal fine and picked up the garbage that weekend.
This littering charge would soon serve as the basis for Guthrie's
most famous work, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a
talking blues song that lasts 18 minutes and 34 seconds in its
original recorded version. Guthrie has pointed out that this was
also the exact length of one of the infamous gaps in Richard
Nixon's Watergate tapes, and that Nixon owned a copy of the
record. The Alice in the song is Alice Brock, who had been a
librarian at Arlo's boarding school in the town before opening her
restaurant. She later opened an art studio in Provincetown,
Massachusetts. The song lampoons the Vietnam War draft. However,
Guthrie has stated in multiple interviews that the song is more an
"anti-stupidity" song than an anti-war song, adding that
it is based on a true incident. In the song, Guthrie is called up
for a draft examination and rejected as unfit for military service
as a result of a criminal record consisting solely of one
conviction for the aforementioned littering. Alice and her
restaurant are the subjects of the refrain, but are generally
mentioned only incidentally in the story (early drafts of the song
explained that the restaurant was a place to hide from the
police). Though her presence is implied at certain points in the
story, Alice herself is described explicitly in the tale only
briefly when she bails Guthrie and a friend out of jail. On the
DVD commentary for the 1969 movie, Guthrie stated that the events
presented in the song all actually happened (others, such as the
arresting officer, William Obanhein, disputed some of the song's
details, but generally verified the truth of the overall story).
"Alice's Restaurant" was the song that earned Guthrie
his first recording contract, after counterculture radio host Bob
Fass began playing a tape recording of one of Guthrie's live
performances of the song repeatedly one night in 1967. A
performance at the Newport Folk Festival on July 17, 1967, was
also very well received. Soon afterward, Guthrie recorded the song
in front of a studio audience in New York City and released it as
side one of the album, Alice's Restaurant. By the end of the
decade, Guthrie had gone from playing coffee houses and small
venues to playing massive and prestigious venues such as Carnegie
Hall and the Woodstock Festival. For a short period after its
release in October 1967, "Alice's Restaurant" was
heavily played on U.S. college and counterculture radio stations.
It became a symbol of the late 1960s, and for many it defined an
attitude and lifestyle that were lived out across the country in
the ensuing years. Its leisurely finger-picking acoustic guitar
and rambling lyrics were widely memorized and played by irreverent
youth. Many stations in the United States have a Thanksgiving Day
tradition of playing "Alice's Restaurant". A 1969 film,
directed and co-written by Arthur Penn, was based on the true
story told in the song, but with the addition of a large number of
fictional scenes. This film, also called Alice's Restaurant,
featured Guthrie and several other figures in the song portraying
themselves. The part of his father Woody Guthrie, who had died in
1967, was played by actor Joseph Boley; Alice, who made a cameo
appearance as an extra, was also recast, with actress Pat Quinn in
the title role (Alice Brock later disowned the film's portrayal of
her). Despite its popularity, the song "Alice's Restaurant
Massacree" is not always featured on the setlist of any given
Guthrie performance. Since putting it back into his setlist in
1984, he has performed the song every ten years, stating in a 2014
interview that the Vietnam War had ended by the 1970s and that
everyone who was attending his concerts had likely already heard
the song anyway. So, after a brief period in the late 1960s and
early 1970s when he replaced the monologue with a fictional one
involving "multicolored rainbow roaches", he decided to
do it only on special occasions from that point forward.
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 111: #BOTD: #HBD: - Antinous
(an-TIN-oh-wahs), also called Antinoos, male Greek youth from
Bithynia, a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian (b.
c, 130) is #born in Claudiopolis (present day Bolu, Turkey), in
the Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus. Little is known of
Antinous's life. He was probably introduced to Hadrian in 123,
before being taken to Italy for a higher education. He had become
the favourite of Hadrian by 128, when he was taken on a tour of
the Roman Empire as part of Hadrian's personal retinue. Antinous
accompanied Hadrian during his attendance of the annual Eleusinian
Mysteries in Athens, and was with him when he killed the Marousian
lion in Libya, an event highly publicised by the Emperor. In
October 130, as they were part of a flotilla going along the Nile,
Antinous died amid mysterious circumstances. Various suggestions
have been put forward for how he died, ranging from an accidental
drowning to an intentional human sacrifice or suicide. Following
his death, Hadrian deified Antinous and founded an organised cult
devoted to his worship that spread throughout the Empire. Hadrian
founded the city of Antinoopolis close to Antinous's place of
death, which became a cultic centre for the worship of
Osiris-Antinous. Hadrian also founded games in commemoration of
Antinous to take place in both Antinoopolis and Athens, with
Antinous becoming a symbol of Hadrian's dreams of pan-Hellenism.
The worship of Antinous proved to be one of the most enduring and
popular of cults of deified humans in the Roman empire, and events
continued to be founded in his honour long after Hadrian's death.
Antinous became a symbol of male homosexuality in Western culture,
appearing in the work of Oscar Wilde, Fernando Pessoa and
Marguerite Yourcenar. Antinous died under mysterious circumstances
before his twentieth birthday. Antinous was deified on Hadrian's
orders, being worshipped in both the Greek East and Latin West,
sometimes a hero and sometimes as a god. Hadrian and his
entourage, among them Antinous, assembled at Heliopolis to set
sail upstream as part of a flotilla along the River Nile. The
retinue included officials, the Prefect, army and naval
commanders, as well as literary and scholarly figures. Possibly
also joining them was Lucius Ceionius Commodus, the young
aristocrat son of Marcus Aurelius whom Antinous might have deemed
a rival to Hadrian's affections. On their journey up the Nile,
they stopped at Hermopolis Magna, the primary shrine to the god
Thoth. It was shortly after this, in October 130 - around the time
of the festival of Osiris - that Antinous fell into the river and
died, probably from drowning. Hadrian publicly announced his
death, with gossip soon spreading throughout the Empire that
Antinous had been intentionally killed. The nature of Antinous's
death remains a mystery to this day; however, various speculations
have been put forward. One possibility is that he was murdered by
a conspiracy at court. However, Lambert asserted that this was
unlikely because it lacked any supporting historical evidence, and
because Antinous himself seemingly exerted little influence over
Hadrian, thus meaning that an assassination served little purpose.
Some scholars suggest that Antinous may have been killed by
Hadrian himself, either in an attempt by the latter to regain his
health, or during an argument between the two. Elizabeth Speller,
one of Hadrian's biographers, notes that the second idea aligns
with the emperor's well-documented fits of anger and violence.
However, most scholars reject the notion that Hadrian murdered his
own lover, judging by his overwhelming grief at Antinous's death.
Another suggestion is that Antinous had died during a voluntary
castration as part of an attempt to retain his youth and thus his
sexual appeal to Hadrian. However, this is improbable because
Hadrian deemed both castration and circumcision to be abominations
and, as Antinous was aged between 18 and 20 at the time of death,
any such operation would have been ineffective. A fourth
possibility is that the death was accidental, perhaps because
Antinous was intoxicated. According to his now-lost memoirs,
Hadrian himself believed this to be the case. Another possibility
is that Antinous represented a voluntary human sacrifice. The
earliest surviving suggestion of this comes from the writings of
Dio Cassius, 80 years after the event, although it was
subsequently repeated in many later sources. In the 2nd-century
Roman Empire, a belief that the death of one could rejuvenate the
health of another was widespread, and Hadrian had been ill for
many years; in this scenario, Antinous could have sacrificed
himself in the belief that Hadrian would have recovered. If this
last situation were true, Hadrian might not have revealed the
cause of Antinous's death because he did not wish to appear either
physically or politically weak. Conversely, opposing this
possibility is the fact that Hadrian disliked human sacrifice and
had strengthened laws against it in the Empire. It is unknown
exactly where Antinous's body was buried; it has been argued that
either his body or some relics associated with him would have been
interred at a shrine in Antinoopolis, although this has yet to be
identified archaeologically -- however, a surviving obelisk
contains an inscription strongly suggesting that Antinous's body
was interred at Hadrian's country estate, the Villa Adriana at
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 1095: Religion: The History
Of Religion: Abrahamic Religions: Christianity: The History Of
Roman Catholicism: The Latin Church (Latin: Ecclesia Latina): The
Middle Ages (The Medieval Period, The Mediaeval Period): The
Crusades: The First Crusade (1096-1099): The Council Of Clermont:
-- Pope Urban's Speech: In reaction to the request by Byzantine
emperor Alexius I Comnenus's to the Council of Piacenza (March
1-7, 1095) in Italy requesting military assistance against the
Seljuk Turks of the medieval Middle East and Central Asia, Pope
Urban issues a call to arms in what would become known as Pope
Urban's Speech, delivered at The Council Of Clermont in Clermont,
Auvergne, Aquitaine in what is now modern France, a call that
resulted in The First Crusade, the first of a series of religious
wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin
Church in the medieval period, whose initial objective was the
recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule. Five accounts of the
speech survive; of these, the one by Fulcher of Chartres, who was
present at the council, is generally accepted as the most
reliable. In Fulcher's text, Urban begins by reminding the clergy
present that they are shepherds, and that they must be vigilant
and avoid carelessness and corruption. He reminds them to refrain
from simony and to adhere to the laws of the church. Urban
complains about the lack of justice and public order in the
Frankish provinces and calls for the re-establishment of the truce
protecting clergy from violence. In the Historiography of the
Crusades, there is a long-standing argument as to how much the
pacification of the Frankish realm was designed to go hand in hand
with the "export of violence" to the enemy in the east.
Fulcher reports that everyone present agreed to the pope's
propositions and promised to adhere to the church's decrees. Then,
after this and other matters had been attended to, Urban spoke
about the suffering of Christianity in another part of the world.
In this second part of his speech, Urban urges the Frankish
Christians that once they have re-established peace and
righteousness in their own land, they should turn their attention
to the East and bring aid to the Christians there, as the Turks
had attacked them and had recently conquered the territory of
Romania (i.e. Byzantine Anatolia) as far west as the
Mediterranean, the part known as the "Arm of Saint George"
(the Sea of Marmara), killing and capturing many Christians and
destroying churches and devastating the kingdom of God. In order
to avoid further loss of territory and even more widespread
attacks on Christians, Urban calls on the clergy present to
publish his call to arms everywhere, and persuade all people of
whatever rank, both nobles and commoners, to go to the aid of the
Christians currently under attack. Concluding his call to arms
with "Christ commands it" (Christus autem imperat),
Urban defines the crusade both as a defensive just war and as a
religious holy war. Urban goes on to promise immediate absolution
to all who die either on the way or in battle against the
infidels. He then connects his call to arms with his previous call
for peace in Gaul: "Let those who have been accustomed
unjustly to wage private warfare against the faithful now go
against the infidels and end with victory this war which should
have been begun long ago. Let those who for a long time, have been
robbers, now become knights. Let those who have been fighting
against their brothers and relatives now fight in a proper way
against the barbarians. Let those who have been serving as
mercenaries for small pay now obtain the eternal reward. Let those
who have been wearing themselves out in both body and soul now
work for a double honor." Pope Urban's call was met with an
enthusiastic popular response across all social classes in western
Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians numbering in the
thousands, led by Peter the Hermit, a French priest, were the
first to respond. What has become known as the People's Crusade
passed through Germany and indulged in wide-ranging anti-Jewish
activities and massacres. On leaving Byzantine-controlled
territory in Anatolia, they were annihilated in a Turkish ambush
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 1852: #DOTD: #RIP: Ada
Lovelace, English mathematician, writer and metaphysician, the
only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron, regarded as the first
computer programmer based on her notes for Charles Babbage's
Analytical Engine, a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer,
chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine
and for being the first to recognise that the machine had
applications beyond pure calculation (b. December 10, 1815,
celebrated as Ada Lovelace Day) #dies at the age of 36 in in
Marylebone, London, England from uterine cancer. The illness
lasted several months, in which time her daughter Annabella took
command over whom Ada saw, and excluded all of her friends and
confidants. Under her mother's influence, Ada had a religious
transformation and was coaxed into repenting of her previous
conduct and making Annabella her executor. She lost contact with
her husband after confessing something to him on August 30 which
caused him to abandon her bedside. It is not known what she told
him. She is buried, at her request, next to her father at the
Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. A
memorial plaque, written in Latin, to her and her father is in the
chapel attached to Horsley Towers. Ada Lovelace was #born Augusta
Ada Byron in London, England to Lord Byron and Lady Byron. Ada
Lovelace Day was founded in her honor to highlight the
achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics, and to promote programs that encourage girls and
women to pursue careers in STEAM ((S)cience, (T)echnology, (A)rt,
(E)ngineering and Mathematics). Augusta Ada King, Countess of
Lovelace. Lord Byron separated from his wife a month after Ada was
born and left England forever, dying in Greece when Ada was eight.
Her mother remained bitter and promoted Ada's interest in
mathematics and logic in an effort to prevent her from developing
her father's perceived insanity. Despite this, Ada remained
interested in him, naming her two sons Byron and Gordon. Upon her
death, she was buried next to him at her request. Although often
ill in her childhood, Ada pursued her studies assiduously. She
married William King in 1835. King was made Earl of Lovelace in
1838, Ada thereby becoming Countess of Lovelace. Her educational
and social exploits brought her into contact with scientists such
as Andrew Crosse, Charles Babbage, Sir David Brewster, Charles
Wheatstone, Michael Faraday, and the author Charles Dickens,
contacts which she used to further her education. Ada described
her approach as "poetical science" and herself as an
"Analyst (& Metaphysician)". When she was eighteen,
her mathematical talents led her to a long working relationship
and friendship with fellow British mathematician Charles Babbage,
who is known as "the father of computers". She was in
particular interested in Babbage's work on the Analytical Engine.
Lovelace first met him in June 1833, through their mutual friend,
and her private tutor, Mary Somerville. Between 1842 and 1843, Ada
translated an article by the military engineer Luigi Menabrea
(later Prime Minister of Italy) about the Analytical Engine,
supplementing it with an elaborate set of seven notes, simply
called "Notes". Lovelace's notes are important in the
early history of computers, especially since the seventh one
contained what many consider to be the first computer program-that
is, an algorithm designed to be carried out by a machine. Other
historians reject this perspective and point out that Babbage's
personal notes from the years 1836/1837 contain the first programs
for the engine. She also developed a vision of the capability of
computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching, while
many others, including Babbage himself, focused only on those
capabilities. Her mindset of "poetical science" led her
to ask questions about the Analytical Engine (as shown in her
notes) examining how individuals and society relate to technology
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November 27, 1874: #BOTD: Chaim Weizmann,
Belarusian-Israeli biochemist, Zionist leader and Israeli
statesman who served as president of the Zionist Organization and
later as the first president of Israel, the most visible Jewish
emissary to the Gentile world (d. November 9, 1952) is #born Chaim
Azriel Weizmann near Pinsk, Byelorussia. He was elected on
president of Israel on February 16, 1949, and served until his
death nearly three years later. Weizmann helped bring about the
British government's Balfour Declaration, which called for the
establishment of a national home for Jews in Palestine, and
convinced the United States government to recognize the newly
formed state of Israel. Weizmann was also a biochemist who
developed the acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation process, which
produces acetone through bacterial fermentation. His acetone
production method was of great importance for the British war
industry during World War I. He founded the Weizmann Institute of
Science in Rehovot, Israel, and was instrumental in the
establishment of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Chaim
Weizmann died aged 77 after a long and painful undisclosed illness
which for some months left him entirely incapacitated, at his
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November 27, 1887: #BOTD: Masaharu Homma,
Japanese Lieutenant General, commander of the Imperial Japanese
14th Army which invaded the Philippines, fought the Battle Of
Bataan and perpetrated the Bataan Death March (d. April 3, 1946)
is #born Homma Masaharu on Sado Island, in the Sea of Japan off
Niigata Prefecture. Homma had a deep respect for, and some
understanding of, the West, having spent eight years as a military
attache in the United Kingdom. In 1917, he was attached to the
East Lancashire Regiment, and in 1918, served with the British
Expeditionary Force in France, being awarded the Military Cross.
From 1930 to 1932, Homma was again sent as a military attache to
the United Kingdom, where his proficiency in the English language
was useful. With the start of the Pacific War, Homma was named
commander of the 43,110-man IJA 14th Army and tasked with the
invasion of the Philippines. He ordered his troops to treat the
Filipinos not as enemies but as friends, and respect their customs
and religion. In one instance, on his approach to Manila, Homma
stopped his columns and ordered the men to clean up and tighten
formations, believing that unkempt soldiers are more likely to
loot and rape. His approach towards Filipino civilians earned him
the enmity of his superior, General Count Hisaichi Terauchi,
commander of the Southern Army, who sent adverse reports about
Homma to Tokyo from his headquarters in Saigon. Also, subversion
was growing within Homma's command by a small group of
insubordinates, under the influence of Colonel Masanobu Tsuji. In
Homma's name, they sent out secret orders against his policies,
including ordering the execution of Filipino Chief Justice Jose
Abad Santos and attempted execution of former Speaker of the House
of Representatives Manuel Roxas, which Homma found out about in
time to stop. Homma failed to give credence to the possibility
that a retreat into the Bataan Peninsula by Filipino-American
forces might succeed in upsetting the Japanese timetable. By the
time he recognized his mistake, his best infantry division had
been replaced by a poorly trained reserve brigade, greatly
weakening his assault force. Rather than waste his men in furious
frontal assaults, he tried to outmaneuver the American forces.
This brought criticism from superiors, who believed he had been
"contaminated" by Western ideas about conserving the
lives of his men. Worried about the stalled offensive in Luzon,
Hirohito pressed Army Chief of Staff Hajime Sugiyama twice in
January 1942 to increase troop strength and launch a quick
knockout on Bataan.Following these orders, Sugiyama put pressure
on Homma to renew his attacks. The resulting Battle Of Bataan,
commencing in January 1942, was one of the most intense in the
campaign. Following Japanese victory in April, at least 60,000
Allied prisoners of war were marched 60 miles (100 km) to a
prisoner-of-war camp. Due to ill treatment and abuse from Japanese
soldiers, at least 5,500 Allied soldiers died during the march.
Homma became known as the Beast of Bataan among Allied soldiers.
Despite Japanese victory in the Battle Of Bataan, the
deteriorating relationship between Homma and Sugiyama led to the
removal of Homma from command shortly after the fall of
Corregidor, and he was thereafter commander of the 14th Army in
name only. The New York Times erroneously reported prior to the
fall of Bataan that Homma was replaced by General Yamashita, and
that Homma had committed suicide. The Imperial General
Headquarters regarded Homma as not aggressive enough in war
(resulting in the high cost and long delay in securing the
American and Filipino forces' surrender), and too lenient with the
Filipino people in peace, and he was subsequently forced into
retirement in August 1943. Homma retired from the military and
lived in semiseclusion in Japan until the end of the war. After
the surrender of Japan, in mid-September 1945, the American
occupation authorities arrested Homma and extradited him to the
Philippines, where he was tried by an American tribunal on 48
counts of violating international rules of war relating to the
atrocities committed by troops under his command during the Bataan
Death March. Homma was arraigned on December 19, 1945, and the
trial was held at the High Commissioner's Residence, Manila,
between January 3 and February 11, 1946. A team of six lawyers,
none of whom had experience in criminal law, was appointed to
defend Homma. During his defense, Homma claimed that he was so
preoccupied with the plans for the Corregidor assault that he had
forgotten about the prisoners' treatment, believing that his
officers were properly handling the matter. He claimed that he did
not learn of the atrocity until after the war, though his
headquarters were only 500 feet (150 m) from the route of the
march, stating in court, "I came to know for the first time
in the court of [the] atrocities, and I am ashamed of myself
should these atrocities have happened." Robert Pelz, a member
of Homma's defense team, noted in his diary, "I truly believe
[Homma] had no idea of the things that occurred. While it is
unclear, according to historian Kevin C. Murphy, whether Homma
ordered the atrocities that occurred during the march, his lack of
administrative expertise, and his inability to adequately delegate
authority and control his men, helped to enable the atrocities. On
February 11, 1946, Homma was convicted of all counts and sentenced
"to be shot to death with musketry", which is considered
to be more honorable than a sentence of death by hanging. Homma's
wife visited Douglas MacArthur to urge a careful review of her
husband's case. MacArthur affirmed the tribunal's sentence, and
Homma was executed by firing squad by American forces on April 3,
1946, in Los Banos, Laguna, a few kilometers from the former
internment camp at the University of the Philippines Los Banos.
Various claims and charges have been lodged that Homma's trial was
unfair or biased and that his trial and execution served primarily
to avenge Homma's defeat of General MacArthur's forces. Homma's
chief defense counsel, John H. Skeen Jr., stated that it was a
"highly irregular trial, conducted in an atmosphere that left
no doubt as to what the ultimate outcome would be". American
General Arthur Trudeau, a member of the five-member tribunal that
condemned Homma, said in a 1971 interview "There's no
question but that some men who were either weak or wounded were
shot or bayoneted on this Death March. The question is how many
echelons of command up is a person responsible to the point where
you should condemn him for murder or crime, and that is what
General Homma was accused of ... We need to cogitate about our
wisdom in condemning General Homma to death. I must admit I was
not much in favor of it. In fact, I opposed it but I could only
oppose it to a point that allowed him to be shot as a soldier and
not hanged ... I thought he was an outstanding soldier."
General Douglas MacArthur had a differing conclusion and wrote in
his review of the case: "If this defendant does not deserve
his judicial fate, none in jurisdictional history ever did. There
can be no greater, more heinous, or more dangerous crime than the
mass destruction, under guise of military authority or military
necessity, of helpless men incapable of further contribution to
war effort. A failure of law process to punish such acts of
criminal enormity would threaten the very fabric of world
society." dies of execution by firing squad by American
forces in Los Banos, Laguna, a few kilometers from the former
internment camp at the University of the Philippines Los Banos.
Homma had been convicted of war crimes relating to the war crimes
of troops under his direct command. He is buried in the Yasukuni
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 1894: #BOTD: #HBD! Konosuke
Matsushita, Japanese businessman and industrialist, nicknamed "the
god of management", founder of Panasonic, the largest
Japanese consumer electronics company (d. April 27. 1989) is #born
Matsushita Konosuke in Wakayama Prefecture in the Kansai region of
Honshu, Japan. A biography of Matsushita's life called Matsushita
Leadership was written by American business management specialist
John Kotter in 1998. Panasonic Corporation (Japanese: Panasonikku
Kabushiki-gaisha), formerly known as the Matsushita Electric
Industrial Co., Ltd. (Japanese: Matsushita Denki Sangyo
Kabushiki-gaisha), founded by Konosuke Matsushita in 1918 as a
lightbulb socket manufacturer, is a major Japanese multinational
electronics company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka. In addition
to consumer electronics of which it had been the world's largest
maker in the late 20th century, Panasonic offers a wide range of
products and services, including rechargeable batteries,
automotive and avionic systems, as well as home renovation and
construction. Panasonic has a primary listing on the Tokyo Stock
Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 and TOPIX indices.
It has a secondary listing on the Nagoya Stock Exchange. Chronic
lung problems led to his death from pneumonia in Moriguchi, Osaka,
Japan at the age of 94. His burial details are not publicly
disclosed. He died with personal assets worth 3B USD, and left a
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 1921: #BOTD: #HBD! Alexander
Dubcek, Czechoslovak and Slovak soldier, politician, and First
Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party (d. November 7, 1992) is #born in Uhrocev,
Slovakia. He attempted to reform the communist government during
the Prague Spring but was forced to resign following the Warsaw
Pact invasion in August 1968. During his leadership, under the
slogan "Socialism with a human face", Czechoslovakia
lifted censorship on the media and liberalized Czechoslovak
society, fuelling the so-called New Wave in Czechoslovak
filmography. However, he was put under pressure by Stalinist
voices inside the party as well as the Soviet leadership, who
disliked the direction the country was taking and feared that
Czechoslovakia could loosen ties with the Soviet Union and become
more westernized. As a result, the country was invaded by the
other Warsaw Pact countries on August 20-21, 1968, ending the
Prague Spring. Dubcek resigned in April 1969 and was succeeded by
Gustav Husak, who initiated normalization. Dubcek was then
expelled from the Communist Party in 1970. Later, after the Velvet
revolution (the overthrow of the communist regime in 1989), he was
Chairman of the federal Czechoslovak parliament. Also in 1989, the
European Parliament awarded Dubcek the Sakharov Prize for Freedom
of Thought. On November 7, 1992, Alexander Dubcek died as a result
of injuries sustained in a car crash that took place on September
1 on the Czech D1 highway, near Humpolec. He was buried in
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 1934: Crime: Organized
Crime: Organized Crime In The United States: Organized Crime In
Chicago: The Touhy Gang: The Nelson Gang: Baby Face Nelson: The
Battle Of Barrington: -- #DOTD: An intense and deadly gunfight
between FBI agents and the FBI's Public Enemy Number One,
notorious Great Depression Era outlaw Baby Face Nelson, takes
place in the town of Barrington, outside Chicago, Illinois. It
resulted in the deaths of Nelson, Federal Agent Herman "Ed"
Hollis and Agent/Inspector Samuel P. Cowley. Lester Joseph Gillis
(December 6, 1908 - November 27, 1934), known by the alias George
Nelson and Baby Face Nelson, was an American bank robber in the
1930s. He was given the nickname Baby Face Nelson due to his small
stature and somewhat youthful appearance, although few dared call
him that to his face. Criminal associates instead called him
"Jimmy". He became partners with John Dillinger, helping
him escape from prison in Crown Point, Indiana. Nelson and the
remaining gang members were labeled as public enemy number one.
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 1940: #BOTD: #HBD! Bruce
Lee, Hong Kong-American actor, director, martial artist, martial
arts instructor, and philosopher (d. July 20, 1973) is #born Lee
Jun-Fan in San Francisco, California's Chinatown during his
parent's trip from Hong Kong, making him a dual Hong Kong and
United States citizen by birth. His father, Lee Hoi-Chuen was a
famous Cantonese opera singer based in Hong Kong; his mother,
Grace Ho, was of Eurasian ancestry, whose father was Cantonese,
and whose mother was English; his maternal great-uncle, Sir Robert
Ho Tung Bosman, KBE JP (also known as Sir Robert Ho Tung), was a
successful Hong Kong businessman of Dutch Jewish and Cantonese
descent. Bruce Lee is considered by commentators, critics, media,
and other martial artists to be the most influential martial
artist and a pop culture icon of the 20th century, who bridged the
gap between East and West. He is often credited with helping to
change the way Asians were presented in American films. Lee was
born in the Chinatown area of San Francisco, California, on
November 27, 1940, to parents from Hong Kong, and was raised with
his family in Kowloon, Hong Kong. He was introduced to the film
industry by his father and appeared in several films as a child
actor. Lee moved to the United States at the age of 18 to receive
his higher education at the University of Washington in Seattle,
and it was during this time that he began teaching martial arts.
His Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated the
traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of
popularity and acclaim, sparking a surge of interest in Chinese
martial arts in the West in the 1970s. The direction and tone of
his films dramatically changed and influenced martial arts and
martial arts films in the US, Hong Kong, and the rest of the
world. He is noted for his roles in five feature-length martial
arts films in the early 1970s: Lo Wei's The Big Boss (1971) and
Fist of Fury (1972); Golden Harvest's Way of the Dragon (1972),
directed and written by Lee; Golden Harvest and Warner Brothers'
Enter the Dragon (1973) and The Game of Death (1978), both
directed by Robert Clouse. Lee became an iconic figure known
throughout the world, particularly among the Chinese, based upon
his portrayal of Chinese nationalism in his films and among Asian
Americans for defying stereotypes associated with the emasculated
Asian male. He trained in the art of Wing Chun and later combined
his other influences from various sources into the spirit of his
personal martial arts philosophy, which he dubbed Jeet Kune Do
(The Way of the Intercepting Fist). Lee held dual nationality in
Hong Kong and the US. He died in Hong Kong on July 20, 1973 at the
age of 32 of acute cerebral edema (swelling of the brain) caused
either by an allergic reaction to the pain reliever Equagesic or
heat stroke, and was buried in Seattle. Equagesic was accordingly
discontinued in the United States thereafter in part because of
this. He is buried at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle, Washington.
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Jimi
Hendrix, African American singer-songwriter, rock guitarist, and
producer (d. July 20, 1970) is #born Johnny Allen Hendrix in
Seattle, Washington. Although his mainstream career spanned only
four years, James Marshall Hendrix, who had African American and
Irish ancestry, is widely regarded one of the most influential
electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of
the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock And
Roll Hall Of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest
instrumentalist in the history of rock music". Born in
Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of
15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a
paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division; he was granted an
honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved
to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the Chitlin'
Circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and
later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through
mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before
moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by Linda
Keith, who in turn interested bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals
in becoming his first manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned
three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Hey
Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries
Mary". He achieved fame in the U.S. after his performance at
the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final
studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the U.S.;
it was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his
first and only number one album. The world's highest-paid
performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the
Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, before his accidental death from
barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of
27. Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and
electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume
and gain, and was instrumental in popularizing the previously
undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He was
also one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of tone
altering effects units, such as fuzz tone, Octavia, wah-wah, and
Uni-Vibe in mainstream rock. He was the first artist to use
stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly
George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered
the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players
before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but
Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid
vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he
began." Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards
during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody
Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, and in 1968, Rolling
Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo
honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970,
Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi
Hendrix Experience was inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of
Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone
ranked the band's three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis:
Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums
of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and
the sixth greatest artist of all time. Hendrix died under disputed
circumstances. Details are disputed concerning Hendrix's last day
as well. He spent much of the with Monika Dannemann in London, the
only witness to his final hours. Dannemann said that she prepared
a meal for them at her apartment in the Samarkand Hotel around 11
p.m., when they shared a bottle of wine. She drove him to the
residence of an acquaintance at approximately 1:45 a.m., where he
remained for about an hour before she picked him up and drove them
back to her flat at 3 a.m. She said that they talked until around
7 a.m., when they went to sleep. Dannemann awoke around 11 a.m.
and found Hendrix breathing but unconscious and unresponsive. She
called for an ambulance at 11:18 a.m., and it arrived nine minutes
later. Ambulancemen transported Hendrix to St Mary Abbots Hospital
where Dr. John Bannister pronounced him dead at 12:45 PM. Coroner
Gavin Thurston ordered a post-mortem examination which was
performed on September 21 by Professor Robert Donald Teare, a
forensic pathologist. Thurston completed the inquest on September
28 and concluded that Hendrix aspirated his own vomit and died of
asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. Citing "insufficient
evidence of the circumstances", he declared an open verdict.
Dannemann later revealed that Hendrix had taken nine of her
prescribed Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended
dosage. Desmond Henley embalmed Hendrix's body which was flown to
Seattle on September 29. Hendrix's family and friends held a
service at Dunlap Baptist Church in Seattle's Rainier Valley on
Thursday, October 1; his body was interred at Greenwood Cemetery
in nearby Renton, the location of his mother's grave. Family and
friends traveled in 24 limousines, and more than 200 people
attended the funeral, including Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding,
Miles Davis, John Hammond, and Johnny Winter. He was reburied
under a marble dome memorial in another section of Greenwood
Memorial Park; Hendrix's father Al and his step mother Ayako
'June' Hendrix have also been placed in the vault in the center of
the memorial. Hendrix is often cited as one example of an
allegedly disproportionate number of musicians dying at age 27,
including Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin in the same
era, a phenomenon referred to as the 27 Club. Hendrix was inspired
musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored
overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was
instrumental in popularizing the previously undesirable sounds
caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He was also one of the first
guitarists to make extensive use of tone altering effects units,
such as fuzz tone, Octavia, wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe in mainstream
rock. He was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects
in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone
commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an
electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with
feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and
others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal
as the blues with which he began." Hendrix was the recipient
of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In
1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the
Year, and in 1968, Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the
Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician
of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of
the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into The Rock
And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in
2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band's three studio albums, Are You
Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the
100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the
greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time. On
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 1950: Korea: The History Of
Korea: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War
In Asia: The Korean Conflict: The Cold War (1947-1953): The Cold
War In Asia: The Korean War: The Chinese Second Phase Campaign
(The Chinese Second Phase Offensive): The Battle Of The
Ch'ongch'on River, The Battle Of Chosin Reservoir: -- The 9th Army
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Corps commanded by Major General Edward Almond at the Chosin
Reservoir area beginning a brutal 17-day battle in freezing
weather that became known as The Battle Of Chosin Reservoir.
Between November 27 and December 13, 30,000 United Nations Command
troops (later nicknamed "The Chosin Few") under the
field command of Major General Oliver P. Smith were encircled and
attacked by about 120,000 Chinese troops under the command of Song
Shilun, who had been ordered by Mao Zedong to destroy the UN
forces. The UN forces were nevertheless able to break out of the
encirclement and to make a fighting withdrawal to the port of
Hungnam, inflicting heavy casualties on the Chinese. US Marine
units were supported in their withdrawal by the US Army's Task
Force Faith to their east, which suffered heavy casualties and the
full brunt of the Chinese offensive. The retreat of the US Eighth
Army from northwest Korea in the aftermath of the Battle Of The
Ch'ongch'on River and the evacuation of the X Corps from the port
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 1957: #BOTD: #HBD! Caroline
Kennedy, American lawyer and diplomat, 29th United States
Ambassador to Japan, and beauty, is #born by caesarean section at
New York Hospital in Manhattan to John Fitzgerald Kennedy (then a
U.S. senator from Massachusetts) and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
Kennedy. She is a prominent member of the Kennedy family and the
only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Caroline Kennedy was just short of her
sixth birthday when her father was assassinated on November 22,
1963. The following year, Caroline, her mother, and brother
settled on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where she attended
school. Kennedy graduated from Radcliffe College and worked at
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her future
husband, exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg. She went on to
receive a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. Most of Kennedy's
professional life has spanned law and politics, as well as
education reform and charitable work. She has also acted as a
spokesperson for her family's legacy and co-authored two books on
civil liberties with Ellen Alderman. Early in the primary race for
the 2008 presidential election, Kennedy and her uncle Ted endorsed
Democratic candidate Barack Obama for President; she later stumped
for him in Florida, Indiana, and Ohio, served as co-chair of his
Vice Presidential Search Committee, and addressed the 2008
Democratic National Convention in Denver. In 2013, President Obama
appointed Kennedy as the United States ambassador to Japan. She
was the inspiration for the naming of Radio Caroline, the Atlantic
ocean's first and popular offshore pirate radio station of the
early 1960s, broadcasting around Great Britain and the various
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 1971: The History Of
Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: The Discovery And
Exploration Of The Solar System: Space Probes: Interplanetary
Space Probes: The Soviet Space Program: Spacecraft Missions To
Mars: The Mars Program: Mars 2: (Russian: Mars 2): -- The first
man-made object reaches the surface of Mars when the Mars 2 space
probe orbiter releases its descent module into the the Martian
atmosphere 4.5 hours before reaching the planet, despite the
descent module's malfunctioning and crashing during descent. The
Mars Program was a series of unmanned spacecraft launched by the
Soviet Union between 1960 and 1973. The spacecraft were intended
to explore Mars, and included flyby probes, landers and orbiters.
Early Mars spacecraft were small, and launched by Molniya rockets.
Starting with two failures in 1969, the heavier Proton-K rocket
was used to launch larger 5 tonne spacecraft, consisting of an
orbiter and a lander to Mars. The orbiter bus design was likely
somewhat rushed into service and immature, considering that it
performed very unreliably in the Venera variant after 1975. This
reliability problem was common to much Soviet space hardware from
the late 1960s and early 1970s and was largely corrected with a
deliberate policy, implemented in the mid-1970s, of consolidating
(or "debugging") existing designs rather than
introducing new ones. The names of the "Mars" missions
do not need to be translated, as the word "Mars" is
spelled and pronounced approximately the same way in English and
Russian. In addition to the Mars program, the Soviet Union also
sent a probe to Mars as part of the Zond program; Zond 2, however
it failed en route. Two more spacecraft were sent during the
Phobos program. In 1996, Russia launched Mars 96, its first
interplanetary mission since the Dissolution Of The Soviet Union,
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Today, November 27, 2025
November 27, 1981: #DOTD: #RIP: Lotte
Lenya, Austrian-American singer, diseuse and actress (b. October
18, 1898) #dies in Manhattan of cancer, aged 83. She is buried
next to her husband Kurt Weill at Mount Repose Cemetery in
Haverstraw, New York. Lotte Lenya was born Karoline Wilhelmine
Charlotte Blamauer in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Long based in the
United States, in the German-speaking and classical music world
she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her
husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated
for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in The
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). She also played the murderous
and sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with
Love (1963). She was a Diseuse, French for "teller",
also called talkers, storytellers, dramatic-singers or
dramatic-talkers, and would sing many of her songs in this form.
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November 27, 2014: #BOTD: #HBD! Buffalo
Bob Smith, American actor and television host (d. July 30, 1998)
is #born Robert Emil Schmidt in Buffalo, New York. He was the host
of the children' show Howdy Doody, an American children'
television program with circus and Western frontier themes that
was telecast on the NBC network. It was a pioneer in children'
television programming and set the pattern for many similar shows.
One of the first television series produced at NBC in Rockefeller
Center, in Studio 3A, it was also a pioneer in early color
production as NBC, at the time owned by TV maker RCA, used the
show in part to sell color television sets in the 1950s. It ran
from December 27, 1947, until September 24, 1960. In 1970 and
1971, Smith embarked on a live tour of college campuses. The
shows, organized by producer Burt DuBrow, mixed nostalgia with
more contemporary humor, such as Buffalo Bob finding a package of
Zig Zags (rolling paper) allegedly belonging to Clarabelle. One
show, on April 4, 1971, was recorded and released as an LP, on the
label "Project 3 Total Sound Stereo". It was titled,
"Buffalo Bob Smith Live at Bill Graham' Fillmore East".
He had a summer residence in Grand Lake Stream, Maine, as well as
owning radio station WQDY in Calais, Maine. In 1976, Smith
reunited with longtime show producer Roger Muir and several of the
original cast to produce a new daily syndicated Howdy Doody Show.
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Today, November 27, 2025
( #JCKaelin here: My wife has adopted 5
rescued special needs box turtles, and now they're safe, happy and
a joy! :) ) ========= November 27: Turtle Adoption Day: -- This is
a day of action for the protection of endangered reptiles, most
especially the wellbeing of turtles. There are a few reasons
turtles can be adopted. Turtles live for a very long time, and
often people find them hard work. Some turtles are the innocent
victims of divorce, death, owners relocating, etc. Having a turtle
as a pet is a long-term commitment because they live for a long
time. Their upkeep is also costly. So finding out as much as
possible on Turtle Adoption Day, is important. Turtles are
reptiles that are found all over the world. There is scarcely any
country in the world that doesn't serve as a habitat for turtles.
Turtles are endangered species of animals often hunted by humans
and suffer from a threatened habitat. Some conservationists
believe that turtles belong in the wild. However, turtles released
into the wild without being prepared properly, can become a menace
or cause sicknesses. They may grow massive and cause damage to the
ecosystem. Moreover, their chance of survival in the wild is slim.
Some people purchase them as baby turtles, treating them like mini
turtles until they grow. Adopting rescued turtles as pets is a
good way to prevent dangers that pose a crisis to this species.
Turtles can be found in almost all climates around the world, and
have their habitat on every continent except Antarctica, known for
its freezing climate. Most turtle species are found in South Asia
and southeastern North America; while only five species can be
found in Europe. Turtles spend most of their time in the water.
Freshwater turtles live in ponds and lakes. They come to land to
bask in the sun. Sea turtles spend most of their time in the
ocean, coming ashore to lay eggs on the sand. Turtle Adoption Day
is known as a day for the protection of endangered reptiles,
specifically, the turtles. This special day appears to have been
brought to life by a woman named Christine Shaw, who put out an
article on the website of Found Animals, campaigning for the
support for the welfare of turtles on November 15, 2011. Turtle
Adoption Day was first celebrated two days after the article was
posted.
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Today, November 27, 2025November 27: Lancashire Day (UK): -- The
reasons for celebrations are centuries old and go back to as early
as 1295 - talk about a long-held observation! It is a widely
publicized event that is celebrated by residents and even attracts
the attention of the British royal family. The day is celebrated
in the historic county of Lancashire by town criers announcing the
Lancashire Day proclamation. The proclamation declares the
boundaries of the region of the county - quite similar to how they
used to back in the day. Lancashire Day celebrates the rich
history and culture of the region. Lancashire Day is also known as
the County Day Of Lancashire. It is observed every year on
November 27 to commemorate the day, in 1295, of which
representatives from Lancashire were sent to Parliament for the
first time. The representatives were sent to attend the Model
Parliament of King Edward I. However, the first Lancashire Day was
held in 1996. The celebrations were organized by Friends of Real
Lancashire. The day is traditionally observed with a loyal toast
to the Queen, Duke of Lancaster, and is celebrated by everyone who
lives in the county. The palatine of Lancashire includes
Liverpool, Manchester, Furness, and Cartmel. Lancashire was
founded in the 12th century however some of its lands were still
in Yorkshire territory. Later on, the boundaries were clearly
demarcated and lands were properly divided. Lancashire emerged as
a major commercial and industrial hub during the Industrial
Revolution. Liverpool and Manchester became two of its biggest
cities with workers coming from different parts of England and
industrialists setting up factories and production plants. These
cities became some of the leading industrial cities in the world
and pretty much revolutionized modern industrialism. Since the
Victorian era, Lancashire has had many reforms in the local
government. The towns and cities in the county have had
administrative bodies from different boroughs and councils. The
county became increasingly urban in the 1900s making it the most
populated area in all of England! Today the county of Lancashire
also includes the borders of Cumbria, North Yorkshire, West
Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, and Merseyside.
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Today, November 27, 2025( #JCKaelin here: Happy 100th
Anniversary, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!) ========= November
27, 1924: The United States: The History Of The United States:
Federal Holidays In The United States: Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving
Day, Thanksgiving [US], American Thanksgiving): Parades: Parades
In The United State: Parades In New York City: Thanksgiving
Parades (Thanksgiving Day Parades): Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade: -- In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade is held. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is now an
annual parade in New York City presented by the U.S.-based
department store chain Macy's. The Parade first took place in
1924,:?9? tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in
the United States with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit
(with both parades being four years younger than Philadelphia's
Thanksgiving Day Parade). The three-hour parade is held in
Manhattan, ending outside Macy's Herald Square, and takes place
from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thanksgiving
Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1953.
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Today, November 27, 2025November 27, 1963: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: Progressivism: Progressivism In The United
States: Liberalism: Liberalism In The United States: The
Presidency Of Lyndon B. Johnson: Let Us Continue: -- Five days
after the assassination of his predecessor John F. Kennedy, and
two days after his state funeral, President Lyndon B. Johnson
delivers his "Let Us Continue" speech to a joint session
of Congress that was broadcast live on television. The almost
25-minute speech is considered one of the most important in his
political career, and one of the most important of the 1960s.
After Kennedy's assassination, Johnson, then Vice President,
ascended to the position. To publicly emphasize stability by the
continuity of government, Johnson made efforts to persuade key
people from the Kennedy administration to stay in office.
Subsequently, various Kennedy officials including his brother and
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, stayed in the Cabinet. Former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower had a conversation with Johnson in
the Executive Office Building, and in a confidential memorandum,
he suggested that Johnson call a joint session of the Congress and
deliver a speech. Soon after, Johnson asked Ted Sorensen,
Kennedy's chief speechwriter, to prepare a draft version for his
speech. Inputs about the subject matter and content of the speech
came from various advisers including John Kenneth Galbraith. After
at least nine draft versions, Johnson studied the final version on
the morning of November 27 and made a few minor changes. In his
address, he called Kennedy the "greatest leader of our time",
and said that "American dreams have been vitalized by his
drive and by his dedication." He called for the earliest
possible passage of the civil rights law, and demanded that
Congress pass tax reform that would bring tax relief. In contrast
with Kennedy's 1961 inauguration address, wherein Kennedy
popularized the phrase "let us begin", Johnson said
"Today, in this moment of new resolve, I would say to all my
fellow Americans, let us continue." He closed the speech with
a stanza from "America the Beautiful". The speech was
interrupted 34 times by applause from the audience. It was widely
appreciated, and the New York Herald Tribune described his address
as "fine words, fitting words, at times inspiring words".
Soon after his address, Johnson succeeded in getting the tax
reform bill and the Civil Rights Act passed by Congress.
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Today, November 27, 2025November 27, 1954: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: Anti-Communism: Anti-Communism In The United
States: The Red Scare: The Second Red Scare: The House Committee
On Un-American Activities (HCUA) (The House Un-American Activities
Committee [HUAC]): The Trials Of The House Committee On
Un-American Activities (HCUA) (The House Un-American Activities
Committee [HUAC]): The Trials Of Alger Hiss: The Second Trial Of
Alger Hiss: -- Alger Hiss, American lawyer and convicted spy
(1904-1996) is released from prison after serving 44 months for
perjury. He was an American government official who was accused of
being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection
with this charge in 1950. Before he was tried and convicted, he
was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a
U.S. State Department official and as a U.N. official. In later
life he worked as a lecturer and author. On August 3, 1948,
Whittaker Chambers, a former U.S. Communist Party member,
testified under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC) that Hiss had secretly been a Communist, while in
federal service. Called before HUAC, Hiss categorically denied the
charge. Richard Nixon first gained national attention in August
1948 when, as a HUAC member, his persistence helped break the
Alger Hiss spy case; while many committee members doubted
Chambers' allegations, Nixon believed them, and received secret
information from the FBI about the matter, and pressed for the
committee to continue its investigation. When Chambers repeated
his claim on nationwide radio, Hiss filed a defamation lawsuit
against him. During the pretrial discovery process, Chambers
produced new evidence indicating that he and Hiss had been
involved in espionage, which both men had previously denied under
oath to HUAC. A federal grand jury indicted Hiss on two counts of
perjury; Chambers admitted to the same offense but, as a
cooperating government witness, was never charged. Although Hiss'
indictment stemmed from the alleged espionage, he could not be
tried for that crime because the statute of limitations had
expired. After a mistrial due to a hung jury, Hiss was tried a
second time. In January 1950, he was found guilty on both counts
of perjury and received two concurrent five-year sentences, of
which he eventually served three and a half years. Hiss maintained
his innocence until his death. Arguments about the case and the
validity of the verdict took center stage in broader debates about
the Cold War, McCarthyism, and the extent of Soviet espionage in
the United States. Since Hiss' conviction, statements by involved
parties and newly exposed evidence have added to the dispute.
Author Anthony Summers argued that since many relevant files
continue to be unavailable, the Hiss controversy will continue to
be debated. Hiss' friends and family continue to insist on his
innocence, though a growing body of evidence refutes this,
including revelations by KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky that
Hiss was a World War II Soviet agent whose codename was ALES. In
2001, James Barron, a staff reporter for The New York Times,
identified what he called a "growing consensus that Hiss,
indeed, had most likely been a Soviet agent." His friends and
family continue to insist on his innocence, though a growing body
of evidence, including revelations by KGB double agent Oleg
Gordievsky that Hiss was a World War II Soviet agent whose
codename was ALES.
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Today, November 27, 2025November 27, 1965: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars:
The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict,
The Resistance War Against America): The United States In The
Vietnam War: The Escalation Of The Vietnam War: -- The Pentagon
tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned military
operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in
Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000. In March
1965, the first American combat troops on the ground, 3,500 U.S.
Marines, landed in South Vietnam. The U.S. had been providing aid
and advisors to the South since the 1950s, slowly escalating
operations to include bombing runs and ground troops. By 1968,
more than 500,000 U.S. troops were in the country, fighting
alongside South Vietnamese soldiers as they faced both a
conventional army and a guerrilla force in unforgiving terrain.
Each side suffered and inflicted huge losses, with the civilian
populace suffering horribly. Based on widely varying estimates,
between 1.5 and 3.6 million people were killed in the war.
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Today, November 27, 2025November 27, 1944: The European Civil
War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater
Of World War II): The Western Front Of World War II: Science And
Technology During World War II: Science And Technology In Nazi
Germany: Research And Development In Nazi Germany (R & D In
Nazi Germany): Wunderwaffen (German: "Wonder Weapons",
"Miracle Weapons"); V-Weapons (German:
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Weapons", "Reprisal Weapons"): The V-2 (The V-2
Rocket, German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Vengeance Weapon 2";
Aggregat 4, German: "Aggregate 4", A-4): -- A German V-2
missile strikes Teniers Square, Antwerp, Belgium while a British
military convoy was passing through the square, killing 126
civilians, including 26 Allied soldiers. Germany began an intense
V-1 and V-2 rocket attack campaign on Antwerp the day prior,
having conducted regular V-weapon attacks on the city and the port
since the British 11th Armoured Division liberated Antwwerp on
September 4, 1944, the Germans attempted to destroy the Port of
Antwerp, which was used by the Allies to bring new material
ashore, by firing housands of V-Weapons: Rheinbote short range
ballistic missiles, V-1 flying bombs and V-2 long range ballistic
missiles were fired (more V-2s than used on all other targets
during the entire war combined), causing severe damage to the city
but failed to destroy the port due to poor accuracy. During the
war, a total of 2,342 V-weapons, 732 of the V-1 type and 1610 of
the more advanced V-2 type, fell in a 10-mile radius around
Antwerp alone. A post-war SHAEF report estimated V-Bombs had been
responsible for killing 5,000 people and injuring a further
21,000, mostly in the cities of Antwerp and Liege.
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Today, November 27, 2025November 27, 2012: #DOTD: #RIP: Mickey
Baker, African American-French guitarist , best known for his work
as a studio musician and as part of the recording duo Mickey &
Sylvia (b. October 15, 1925) #dies near Toulouse, France, aged 87.
His wife, Marie, said he died of heart and kidney failure. He is
buried at the Cimetiere De Montastruc in
Montastruc-la-Conseillere, Midi-Pyrenees, France. Mickey Baker was
born MacHouston Baker in Louisville, Kentucky. His mother was
black, and his father, whom he never met, was believed to be
white. In 1936, at the age of 11, Baker was put into an orphanage.
He ran away frequently, and had to be retrieved by the staff from
St. Louis, New York City, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. Eventually the
orphanage quit looking for him, and at the age of 16 he stayed in
New York City. He found work as a laborer and then a dishwasher.
But after hanging out in the pool halls of 26th Street, he gave up
work to become a full-time pool shark. At 19, Baker decided to
make a change in his life. He went back to dishwashing, and was
determined to become a jazz musician. The trumpet was his first
choice for an instrument, but with only $14 saved up, he could not
find a pawnshop with anything but guitars for that price. He
enrolled at The New York School of Music, but found the learning
pace too slow. He dropped out and resolved to teach himself, but
gave up shortly afterwards. Six months later he met a street
guitarist who inspired him to start playing again. He continued
taking private lessons from different teachers over the next few
years. His musical style was influenced by saxophonist Charlie
Parker. By 1949, Baker had his own combo, and a few paying jobs.
He decided to move west, but found that audiences there were not
receptive to progressive jazz music. Baker was stranded without
work in California when he saw a show by blues guitarist Pee Wee
Crayton. Baker said of the encounter: "I asked Pee Wee, 'You
mean you can make money playing that stuff on guitar?' Here he was
driving a big white Eldorado and had a huge bus for his band. So I
started bending strings. I was starving to death, and the blues
was just a financial thing for me then." He found a few jobs
in Richmond, California, and made enough money to return to New
York. After returning east, Baker began recording for Savoy, King
and Atlantic Records. He did sessions with Doc Pomus, The
Drifters, Ray Charles, Ivory Joe Hunter, Ruth Brown, Big Joe
Turner, Louis Jordan, Coleman Hawkins, and numerous other artists.
Inspired by the success of Les Paul & Mary Ford, he formed the
pop duo Mickey & Sylvia (with Sylvia Robinson, one of his
guitar students) in the mid-1950s. Together, they had a hit single
with "Love Is Strange" in 1956. After the duo split up
in the late 1958, Baker recorded with Kitty Noble as Mickey &
Kitty. They released three records on Atlantic Records in 1959. In
late 1959, Baker released his debut solo album, The Wildest
Guitar, on Atlantic. Mickey & Sylvia reunited in 1960 and
sporadically worked together on additional tracks until the
mid-1960s. Around this time he moved to France, where he worked
with Ronnie Bird and Chantal Goya and made a few solo records. He
would remain in France for the rest of his life. Up until the end
of his life, Baker was rarely without work. As well as his
influential series of guitar tutor books, he recorded two albums
during the 1970s with British label Big Bear Records, one, Take A
look Inside, as the featured artist and another as sideman to
legendary trombonist Gene Conners. Baker appeared at the 1975
version of the Roskilde Festival. Because Baker revealed very few
details about his private life, reasons for his move to France
were never made completely clear. Some media sources claimed that
Baker had grown tired of the business aspects of the commercial
music industry in the United States, while others stated that the
bi-racial Baker was angered by the growing rate of hate crimes in
the southern United States, during the burgeoning civil rights
movement. Baker guarded his personal life as much as possible,
giving few interviews and making only sporadic public appearances.
After moving to France, he rarely left the country, and made very
few trips to the United States. Baker was married six times. Among
his wives were Barbara Castellano from the mid-1950s to the
mid-1970s, and Marie France-Drei, a singer with whom he stayed
from the early 1980s until his death. Baker had two children; a
son, MacHouston, Jr., and a daughter, Bonita Lee. Baker's
self-tuition method book series, the Complete Course in Jazz
Guitar is a mainstay for introducing students of guitar to the
world of jazz. They have remained in print for over 50 years.
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Today, November 27, 2025November 27, 1935: #BOTD: #HBD! Al
Jackson, Jr., African American drummer, record producer and
songwriter, founding member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, a group
of session musicians who worked for Stax Records and produced
their own instrumentals, affectionately dubbed "The Human
Timekeeper" for his drumming ability (d. October 1, 1975) is
#born Albert J. Jackson Jr in Memphis, Tennessee. Jackson's
father, Al Jackson Sr., led a jazz/swing dance band in Memphis,
Tennessee. The young Jackson started drumming at an early age and
began playing on stage with his father's band in 1940, at the age
of five. He later played in producer and trumpeter Willie
Mitchell's band and at the same time was holding down a chair in
the popular Ben Branch Band. In a 2007 interview with Drum!
magazine, Mitchell recalled, "Al Junior was about 14 years
old then. I said to his father, 'Hey, let's use your son!' He
said, 'Oh, man, he can't play this shit!' But he did make the gig.
He set up his kit - a cymbal, a snare drum, and a bass drum - and
I kicked the thing off. And, man, that thing went off at 20
tempos! But that was around 7:00 o'clock. And by the time Al
Senior came in an hour later, at 8:00 o'clock, Al Jackson Jr. was
swinging that damn band like a pro." Future bandmates Steve
Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn first heard Jackson
playing in Mitchell's band at the Flamingo Room, and the all-white
Manhattan Club. Mitchell had also hired Booker T. Jones for his
band. It was Jones who suggested Jackson be brought to Stax. He
said, "You guys need to know about Al." Dunn said that
Jackson almost caused his wife to divorce him, because after
finishing his own gig at one o'clock, he would stop by a club to
hear Jackson and would get home at four or five in the morning;
"He was that good!" said Dunn. At first, Jackson was
reluctant to join Stax. He felt he could make more money playing
live than doing session work. He wanted a guaranteed regular
salary to come over to Stax (although he continued to play on
sessions produced by Mitchell for Hi Records). And so he became
the first Stax session musician to be on a weekly salary. At Stax,
Jackson became one of the most influential drummers in the history
of recorded music, providing an instantly recognizable backbeat
behind the label's artists, including Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas,
Eddie Floyd, Sam & Dave, Otis Redding and blues guitarist
Albert King (whose work Jackson also produced). In the 1970s, he
co-wrote and played on several hits by Al Green, including "Let's
Stay Together" and "I'm Still in Love with You", at
Hi, and he was also a session drummer for many artists, such as
Elvis Presley, Bill Withers, Wilson Pickett, Leon Russell, Jerry
Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Jean Knight, Aretha Franklin, Major
Lance, Ann Peebles, Rod Stewart, Shirley Brown, Donny Hathaway and
Herbie Mann. In 1975, four years after the release of their last
album, Melting Pot, the members of Booker T. & the M.G.'s
decided to wrap up their individual projects and devote three
years to a reunion of the band. A few months later, Jackson was
murdered in his home. On September 30, 1975, Jackson was scheduled
to fly from Memphis to Detroit, to produce a Major Lance session,
when he supposedly heard a reminder on the radio about the Joe
Frazier-Muhammad Ali fight that night. Jackson called Detroit to
delay the session, saying he was going to watch the "Thrilla
In Manila" on the big screen at the Mid-South Coliseum.
Though still legally married, Jackson was estranged from his wife,
Barbara Jackson. In July 1975, his wife had shot him in the chest,
but he decided to not press charges. He was in the process of
filing for a divorce and intending to move to Atlanta, so that he
could begin working with Stax singer and songwriter William Bell.
Jackson attended the screening with Eddie Floyd and Terry Manning.
After the screening, he returned home to find intruders in the
house. Reportedly, he was told to get down on his knees, and was
fatally shot five times in the back. Around 3 a.m. on October 1,
Barbara Jackson ran out in the street, yelling for help. She told
police that burglars had tied her up and shot her husband when he
had returned home. Police found nothing out of place in the house,
and Jackson's wallet and jewelry were still on him. He is buried
at New Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. The man believed to
have pulled the trigger had reportedly known someone in Memphis.
After robbing a bank in Florida, that person told the alleged
triggerman to meet him at Al Jackson's house. Tracked through
Florida, to Memphis, and to Seattle, Washington, the suspected
murderer, the boyfriend of Barbara Jackson's friend Denise
LaSalle, was killed by a police officer on July 15, 1976, after an
unrelated gun battle.
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Today, November 27, 2025November 27, 176: Rome: Ancient Rome: The
Roman Empire: Roman Emperors: The Reign Of Marcus Aurelius: --
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Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
The title Imperator derives from the Latin verb imperare, meaning
'to order, to command'. It was originally employed as a title
roughly equivalent to commander under the Roman Republic. Later it
became a part of the titulature of the Roman Emperors as part of
their cognomen, the third name of a citizen of ancient Rome, under
Roman naming conventions. The English word "emperor"
derives from Latin word "imperator" via the Old French
word "Empereur". The Roman emperors generally based
their authority on multiple titles and positions, rather than
preferring any single title. Nevertheless, imperator was used
relatively consistently as an element of a Roman ruler's title. By
177, Commodus would be made co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius and
remain so until his father's death resulted in Commodus becoming
sole Emperor. During his solo reign, the Empire enjoyed a period
of reduced military conflict compared with the reign of Marcus
Aurelius, but intrigues and conspiracies abounded, leading
Commodus to an increasingly cruel and dictatorial style of
leadership that culminated in a God-like personality cult. His
assassination in 192 marked the end of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty
and the beginning of a chain of events that ultimately led to the
fall of the Roman Empire. He was succeeded by Pertinax, the first
emperor in the tumultuous Year of the Five Emperors.
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