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1779 - The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania and the first legally recognized university in America.

1889 - Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City. Mr. Brady had to pledge to New York’s finest that he would not frighten the horses in the park.

1910 - Pennsylvania Station, or Penn Station, was opened to traffic. In those days of the early 1900s, the 28-acre train and transportation facility was the largest railway station in the world. Penn Station is still the busiest Amtrak rail station in the U.S. Features Spotlight

1926 - Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong recorded You Made Me Love You on Okeh Records.

1930 - Broadcasting from “...a little theatre off Times Square,” according to the show’s introduction, The First Nighter was first heard on radio. The program, which actually originated from Chicago, then from Hollywood, aired for 23 years and featured dramas and comedies.

1935 - Eeny Meeny Miney Mo was recorded by Ginger Rogers and Johnny Mercer. The tune was recorded at Decca Records in Los Angeles.

1937 - Pins and Needles, opened in New York City. The cast of the stage play consisted of members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU). The show ran two years. We bet it was a stitch.

1942 - The French navy at Toulon (Vichy) scuttled its ships and submarines to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Nazis.

1945 - C.A.R.E. (Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere) was founded this day, as 22 American organizations formed a cooperative to rush lifesaving CARE packages to survivors of World War II.

1951 - Nike, the first ground-to-air missile, was successfully tested at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico.

1953 - Playwright Eugene O’Neill died in Boston, Massachusetts. He was 65 years old. His vast collection of plays included Anna Christie, Ah! Wilderness, The Hairy Ape, Desire Under the Elms, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and Mourning Becomes Electra. O’Neill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936. His daughter, Oona, married silent film star Charlie Chaplin.

1960 - CBS radio cancelled Have Gun Will Travel. The adventures of the man called Paladin (played by John Dehner) had first aired on the radio on Nov 23, 1958.

1967 - The Association, a California group, earned a gold record for the hit Never My Love, on Warner Bros. Records. The group also earned worldwide fame for other hits including Windy, Cherish and Along Comes Mary.

1967 - The Beatles released their Magical Mystery Tour album -- and the world began singing along to: Magical Mystery Tour, The Fool on the Hill, Flying, Blue Jay Way, Your Mother Should Know, I Am the Walrus, Hello Goodbye, Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Baby You’re a Rich Man and All You Need is Love. And a coo coo ca choo to you.

1969 - The Rolling Stones used portions of their stint at New York’s Madison Square Garden this day for their live album Get Yer Ya-Yas Out (released in 1970). Tracks on the album: Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Carol, Stray Cat Blues, Love in Vain, Midnight Rambler, Sympathy for the Devil, Live with Me, Little Queenie, Honky Tonk Women and Street Fighting Man.

1973 - The U.S. Senate voted 92-to-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president. Ford succeeded Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned in a financial scandal.

1977 - It was a big day for sweat hog Vinnie Barbarino, formerly of TV’s Welcome Back Kotter. His new character, Tony Manero, set box office records as Saturday Night Fever made a superstar of John Travolta. The soundtrack album, by the Bee Gees and others, sold more than 11 million copies.

1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were gunned down inside City Hall. Former supervisor Dan White later turned himself in at the city’s Northern Police station.

1982 - The #1 song in the U.S. was former Commodore Lionel Richie’s Truly. The love song stayed at the top of the charts for two weeks. The song was his first solo hit and followed Endless Love, a duet with Diana Ross (1981).

1983 - Stores across the U.S. were inundated by eager shoppers trying to buy Cabbage Patch Kids -- dolls with computer-designed faces.

1986 - Lou Holtz signed a five-year pact to lead the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Holtz left the head coaching job with the Golden Gophers of the University of Minnesota to take the new position.

1989 - University of Chicago doctors transplanted part of Teri Smith’s liver in her 21-month-old daughter, Alyssa. It was the first living donor liver transplant in the U.S.

1990 - Britain’s Conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as party leader, paving the way for his appointment as prime minister.

1992 - Part of the Vienna Hofburg Palace in Austria was destroyed by fire.

1996 - Movies premiering in the U.S.: The Crucible, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield and Joan Allen; and 101 Dalmations, with Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson and Joan Plowright.

1997 - During Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, a gust of wind blew the ‘Cat-in-the-Hat’ balloon into a lamppost. Part of the streetlight then fell onto a 34-year-old woman spectator, fracturing her skull and leaving her in a coma for almost a month.

1998 - Answering 81 questions put to him in advance, U.S. President Bill Clinton wrote to the House Judiciary Committee stating that his testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair was “not false and misleading.”

1999 - New Zealand’s Labour Party under Helen Clark won a general election, ousting the National Party after nine years in power.

2000 - Prime Minister Jean Chretien led the Liberal Party to a third consecutive majority government in parliamentary elections in Canada -- with 41% of the popular vote.

2002 - Two animated flicks debuted in U.S. theatres: Treasure Planet, with the voices of Roscoe Lee Browne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Hyde Pierce, Mona Marshall, Brian Murray, Johnny Rzeznik, Martin Short, Emma Thompson and Michael Wincott; and Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights, featuring the voices of Adam Sandler, Jackie Titone, Austin Stout, Tyra Banks, James Barbour, Bobby Edner, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Nealon and Rob Schneider.

2002 - Also opening this day: Extreme Ops, starring Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rupert Graves, Rufus Sewell, Heino Ferch, Joe Absolom, Jana Pallaske, Liliana Komorowska and Klaus Lowitsch; Solaris, starring George Clooney, Natascha Mcelhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis and Ulrich Tukur; and Wes Craven Presents: They, with Laura Regan, Marc Blucas, Ethan Embry, Dagmara Dominczyk and Jon Abrahams.

2003 - U.S. President George Bush (II) flew to Baghdad, Iraq under extraordinary secrecy and security to spend Thanksgiving with U.S. troops.

2004 - U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins was released from a military jail after serving 25 days for abandoning his squadron and crossing the border into North Korea in 1965.

2004 - Televangelist Billy James Hargis died at 79 years of age. His books included Is the Schoolhouse the Best Place to Teach Raw Sex.

2005 - A rare November tornado outbreak across the central U.S. (Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana) killed two people. In addition, the same system produced a major blizzard in the northern and western Great Plains.

2006 - Eurotunnel, operator of the Channel tunnel, was rescued from looming bankruptcy when key creditors approved a plan in Paris to slash debt exceeding 9.0 billion euros (11.9 billion dollars).

2007 - Lebanon’s top Shiite cleric declared that a Muslim woman could fight back in self-defense if she was hit by her husband. The ruling was rare for the region’s male-dominated Islamic society.

2007 - Google announced an initiative to clean the environment and reduce the company’s own power bill. The Internet search giant said it would spend millions of dollars to develop renewable energy to replace polluting fossil fuels and to help reverse global warming.

2008 - Switzerland reached an agreement to join the European Union’s passport-free travel zone. The borderless zone (created by the "Schengen Agreements"), called the Schengen Area, is made up of twenty-five European countries.

2008 - Iraq’s parliament approved a pact with the U.S., setting a clear timetable for a U.S. withdrawl for the first time since the 2003 invasion. Under the security pact, U.S. forces would withdraw from Iraqi towns and cities by Jul 2008 and from the entire country by Jan 2012.

2009 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Bunny and the Bull, with Edward Hogg, Simon Farnaby, Verónica Echegui, Richard Ayoade, Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and Waleed Khalid; and The Private Lives of Pippa, starring Robin Wright Penn, Julianne Moore, Wynona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Maria Bello, Alan Arkin, Monica Bellucci and Blake Lively.

2009 - Golfing superstar Tiger Woods ran his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Florida home. This took place just days after the National Enquirer claimed he had an affair with Rachel Uchitel, the 33-year-old golf champ. A report soon followed in Us Weekly magazine of a cocktail waitress claiming to have had a 31-month affair with Woods.

2010 - Delegates at the Atlantic conservation conference in Paris, France took measures to protect sea turtles and several types of sharks. ICCAT (The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna) members agreed to reduce the allowable Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna catch to 12,900 tons from 13,500 tons. The allowable western Atlantic catch was reduced to 1,750 tons from 1,800 (American and Canadian fisherman already had been unable to meet this level, due to stock decline).

2012 - Four gay men accused a New Jersey nonprofit, Jews Offering New Alternatives to Healing (JONAH, of fraud for selling ‘conversion therapy’ that falsely promised to make them straight.

2012 - Some 200,000 people gathered in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square for a protest against President Morsi. This, in a significant test of whether the opposition could rally supporters in a confrontation aimed at forcing the Islamist leader to rescind decrees that granted him near absolute powers.

2013 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S.: Black Nativity, starring Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Tyrese Gibson, Jacob Latimore and Mary J. Blige; Homefront, with Winona Ryder, James Franco, Jason Statham, Rachelle Lefevre, Frank Grillo and Kate Bosworth; Oldboy, starring Elizabeth Olsen, Josh Brolin, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Simone, Sharlto Copley and Hannah Ware; the animated adventure, Frozen, featuring the voices of Kristen Bell, Alan Tudyk, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff, Ciarán Hinds, Livvy Stubenrauch and Eva Bella; and the documentary, Journey to the South Pacific, narrated by Cate Blanchett.

2013 - Digital autopsies were performed by a new machine in Sheffield, England. The technique saved bodies from being cut open with scalpels. The non-invasive process is intended to be less harrowing for relatives who have lost a loved one and speedier than a traditional postmortem, allowing the body to be released for burial or cremation sooner.

2014 - Toyota recalled more than 40,000 vehicles in Japan as part of a worldwide fix for its defective air bags.

2015 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: The Danish Girl, starring Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard and Eddie Redmayne; the documentaries, Iraqi Odyssey, Janis: Little Girl Blue and Killing Them Safely; Submerged, with Rosa Salazar, Tim Daly and Talulah Riley; and Sweaty Betty with Seth Dubois, Floyd Rich and Rico S.

2015 - From the gun violence department, in what seems to have become the usual for any day, (1) 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear entered a family planning clinic in Colorado Springs and opened fire. He killed 3 people, including a police officer, and wounded nine others. And (2) Johnny Max Mount shot and killed an employee at a Biloxi, Louisiana Waffle House restaurant. This, because she had asked him not to smoke.

2015 - Queen Elizabeth opened the 24th biennial Commonwealth Summit, held in Malta. Leaders of 53 countries -- around a quarter of the world’s countries and a third of its population -- gathered to discuss global issues.

2016 - Swiss voters rejected a call to speed up the phase-out of the country’s ageing nuclear reactors. A full 54.2 percent of voters and an overwhelming majority of 26 cantons voted against an initiative which would have forced three of the country’s five nuclear reactors to close in 2017.

2017 - A 17-year-old girl who had offered to fight for Islamic State was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Danish high court. This, for her planning of bomb attacks on two Denmark schools.

2017 - The European Union approved a five-year extension on the use of the weed killer glyphosate. The decision worried both environmentalists and farmers.

2018 - "MS-13" gang member Edwin Gonzalez (23) was sentenced in Boston to life in federal prison for his role in two killings. The teenage victims were lured to their deaths via social media. Gonzalez was sentenced following his conviction on racketeering charges that included his participation in the September 2015 murder of a 15-year-old boy and the January 2016 murder of a 16-year-old boy.

2018 - The United Nations environment office warned that the gap was widening between greenhouse gas emissions and the levels needed to stop catastrophic global warming. It said in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 F) this century, emissions need to drop 55 percent by 2030 compared to 2017 levels.

2018 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Knives Out, starring Ana de Armas, Chris Evans and Jamie Lee Curtis; and Queen & Slim, with Chloë Sevigny, Benito Martinez and Indya Moore.

2019 - A pair of explosions and a huge fire at a petrochemical plant in Port Neches, Texas prompted an evacuation order for at least four surrounding towns. This, out of fear that heat from the fire would ignite petrochemical tanks at the site. Some 60,000 people within a four-mile (6.4 km) radius of the facility were ordered out of their homes.

2020 - Movies scheduled to open in U.S. theatres included: Faith Under Fire, starring Dean Cain, Kevin Sorbo and Nick Vlassopoulos; Princess of the Row, starring Martin Sheen, Edi Gathegi and Ana Ortiz; and the documentary Zappa, an in-depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa.

2020 - A "Make Amazon Pay" campaign was launched on the annual Black Friday shopping bonanza by a coalition of over 50 organizations, with demands including improvements to working conditions and full tax transparency.

2020 - Los Angeles County announced a 3-week stay-home order as coronavirus cases surged out of control in the nation’s most populous county. Most gatherings were banned, but the order stopped short of a full shutdown on retail stores and other non-essential businesses.

2020 - South Korea’s spy agency reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered at least two people executed, banned fishing at sea and locked down the capital, Pyongyang, as part of frantic efforts to guard against the coronavirus and its possible economic damage.

2021 - Britain announced new measures to slow the spread of the newly identified Omicron coronavirus variant. Health minister Sajid Javid said two linked cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant had been detected in Britain connected to travel to southern Africa. Indian Pime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the review of plans to ease travel restrictions as concerns rose over that Omicron variant of COVID-19. And Israel said it would ban the entry of all foreigners into the country, making it the first country to shut its borders completely in response to the Omicron variant. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Israel would use counter-terrorism phone-tracking technology in order to contain the spread.

2022 - Albanian President Bajram Begaj granted citizenship to pop star Dua Lipa for promoting Albania through her international fame and musical talents. Lipa was born in London in 1995 to immigrant parents from Kosovo, making her first language Albanian. Her parents had always wanted to return to Kosovo, and when she was 11, they all moved back.

2022 - Iran protested U.S. Soccer’s social media post showing an altered image of Iran’s flag, without the emblem of the Islamic Republic. U.S. Soccer said it changed the official Iranian flag image for 24 hours in “support for the women in Iran fighting for basic human rights.”

2023 - Elon Musk, facing criticism for endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory on his social media platform, X, visited Israel and went to areas targeted in Hamas’ deadly Oct 7 attack. Musk and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wearing flak jackets, toured a kibbutz attacked by Hamas. Musk said, “We have to do whatever is necessary to stop the hate.” X had lost dozens of major advertisers since Musk endorsed a post accusing Jewish communities of stoking hatred of white people.

2023 - Shoppers snapped up bargains online as the extended weekend of post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping wrapped up with Cyber Monday, the busiest online shopping day of the year. Adobe Analytics said consumers spent some $12.4 billion, to make it the biggest online shopping day in history.

2024 - Moana 2 opened in U.S. theatres. The animated action adventure features characters voiced by Dwayne Johnson, Auli’i Cravalho and Alan Tudyk and others.

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Jump to Top Birthdays on This Day    November 27

1804 - Sir Julius Benedict
musician, composer; died Jun 5, 1885

1809 - Fanny Kemble
actress: Romeo and Juliet, The Hunchback; died Jan 15, 1893

1870 - Joseph Mack
inventor: passenger bus; builder of gasoline-powered delivery wagons; founder [w/brothers] of Mack Truck Company; died Jul 25, 1953

1874 - Charles A. Beard
historian: “perhaps the quintessential economic-school historian”; writer: An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, The Basic History of the United States; helped found New School for Social Research in New York City; died Sep 1, 1948

1874 - Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman: instrumental in establishing Israel as a national home for Jews; died Nov 9, 1952

1903 - Mona Washbourne
actress: Mrs. Pearce, My Fair Lady, Night Must Fall, Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter, Brideshead Revisited; died Nov 15, 1988

1906 - Dudley Dickerson
actor: Three Stooges films, Pardon My Nightshirt, One Shivery Night, The Sickle or the Cross, Tall, Dark and Gruesome, Nervous Shakedown, Get Along Little Zombie; died Sep 23, 1968

1911 - David Merrick
Broadway producer: Gypsy, Hello, Dolly!, Beckett, Oliver, Fanny, Stop the World: I Want to Get Off, 42nd Street; died Apr 25, 2000

1916 - Chick Hearn
long-time basketball radio/TV play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers: broadcast 3,338 consecutive Lakers games starting on November 21, 1965; died Aug 5, 2002; more

1917 - ‘Buffalo’ Bob Smith
TV host: Howdy Doody Show, The Gulf Road Show Starring Bob Smith; died July 30, 1998

1917 - Robert Youngson
Academy Award-winning producer, director, screenwriter: World of Kids [1952], This Mechanical Age [1955]; The Golden Age of Comedy, When Comedy Was King, 4 Clowns, The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy, The Big Parade of Comedy, Days of Thrills and Laughter, Gadgets Galore; died Apr 8, 1974

1920 - Stephen Elliott
actor: As the World Turns, The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake, Taking Care of Business, Arthur, Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love, Beverly Hills Cop; died May 21, 2005

1925 - Derroll Adams
folk musician: banjo; singer: Feelin’ Fine [w/Wiz Jones]; songwriter: Portland Town, Wish I was a Rock; in film: Don’t Look Back; died Feb 6, 2000

1925 - Marshall Thompson
actor: The Turning Point, George!, East of Kilimanjaro, To Hell and Back, The Caddy, The Purple Heart, Daktari, Angel; died May 18, 1992

1935 - Al Jackson Jr.
drummer: groups: Booker T. and the M.G.’s, Roy Milton Band; died Oct 1, 1975

1935 - Willie (Wilfred) Pastrano
boxer: Light Heavyweight Champion [1963-65]; died Dec 6, 1997

1936 - Gail Henion Sheehy
author, journalist: Passages, The Silent Passage: Menopause, Pathfinders; died Aug 24, 2020

1939 - Dave Giusti
baseball: pitcher: Houston Colt .45’s, Houston Astros, SL Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971/NL Fireman of the Year: 1971 (his 30 saves led the league)/all-star: 1973], Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics

1940 - John Alderton
actor: He Knew He Was Right, Calendar Girls, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries: Speedy Death, Mr. H Is Late, Late Flowering Love, Little Dorrit

1940 - Bruce Lee
actor: martial arts cult star; The Green Hornet, Game of Death, Return of the Dragon, Fists of Fury, Enter the Dragon, Chinese Connection, Marlowe; subject of the movie, Dragon; died July 20, 1973

1941 - Eddie Rabbitt
songwriter: Kentucky Rain [Elvis Presley]; singer: I Love A Rainy Night, Drivin’ My Life Away, Suspicions, Every Which Way But Loose; his 17 albums garnered 26 #1 country hits and 8 pop hits; died May 7, 1998

1942 - Jimi Hendrix
musician, singer: Foxy Lady, Purple Haze, All Along the Watch Tower, The Wind Cries Mary, Manic Depression, Spanish Castle Magic; died Sep 18, 1970

1944 - Trevor ‘Dozy’ Ward-Davies
musician: bass: group: Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich; died Jan 13, 2015

1945 - James Avery
actor: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, I Wanna Dance, Let the Game Begin, Restraining Order, Nancy Drew, Epoch, A Friend to Die For, Roe vs. Wade, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, That ’70s Show; died Dec 31, 2013

1947 - Don Adams
basketball: Detroit Pistons; died Dec 25, 2013

1948 - Jimmy Gunn
football: USC all-American DE; USC Athletic Hall of Famer; died Apr 11, 2015

1948 - Dave Winthrop
musician: flute, sax; singer group: Supertramp: Take the Long Way Home, The Logical Song, Goodbye Stranger, Breakfast in America, Bloody Well Right

1949 - Jim Price
basketball: University of Louisville all-American, Milwaukee Bucks all-star, Buffalo, Denver, LA Lakers

1950 - Hans-Joachim Fassnacht
swimmer: 1972 Olympics

1951 - Kathryn Bigelow
first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director: The Hurt Locker [2010]; Near Dark, Point Break, Strange Days, The Weight of Water, Zero Dark Thirty; more

1952 - Ike Harris
football: New Orleans Saints

1953 - Curtis Armstrong
actor: Revenge of the Nerds, Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise, Moonlighting, Ray, Better Off Dead, Big Bully, One Crazy Summer, Bad Medicine, National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, Smokin’ Aces, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Jingle All the Way, Southland Tales, Beer for My Horses

1953 - Boris Grebenshikov
Russian rock musician

1955 - Bill Nye
mechanical engineer, children’s show TV host: Bill Nye the Science Guy

1956 - William Fichtner
actor: The Moguls, Crash, Equilibrium, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, The Perfect Storm, Drowning Mona, Go, Empire Falls, Crossing Lines

1957 - Caroline Kennedy
First Daughter: daughter of 35th President of U.S. John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy

1958 - Mike Scioscia
baseball: Los Angeles Dodgers [1980–1992]: 1981, 1988 World Series champs; magager: Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels [2000–2018]: 2002 World Series champs

1959 - Charlie Burchill
musician: guitar: group: Simple Minds: Changeling, Premonition, The American, Love Song, Don’t You [Forget About Me]

1961 - Samantha Bond
actress: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Outnumbered, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

1963 - Fisher Stevens
actor: The Right to Remain Silent, Hackers, Super Mario Bros., When the Party’s Over, The Marrying Man, Short Circuit series, The Flamingo Kid, Bob Roberts, The Brother from Another Planet, Key West

1964 - Robin Givens
actress: Boomerang, Head of the Class, Angel Street, A Rage in Harlem, Foreign Student, Blankman, The Penthouse, The Women of Brewster Place, Beverly Hills Madam, The Game, Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, Chuck, Riverdale

1968 - Michael Vartan
actor: Alias, Hawthorne, The Mists of Avalon, Demoted, Colombiana, Big Shots, Bates Motel

1969 - Tim Laker
baseball [catcher]: Montreal Expos, Balitmore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Cleveland Indians; more

1970 - Brooke Langton
actress: Melrose Place, Primeval, The Benchwarmers, Beautiful Dreamer, Kiss the Bride, Playing Mona Lisa, The Replacements

1971 - Larry Allen
Pro Football Hall of Fame guard: NFL: Dallas Cowboys

1971 - Nick Van Exel
basketball [guard]: Univ of Cincinnati; NBA: LA Lakers, Denver Nuggets, Dallas Mavericks, Golden State Warriors, Portland Trail Blazers, San Antonio Spurs

1972 - Chris Hetherington
football [running back]: Yale University; NFL: Indianapolis Colts, Carolina Panthers, St. Louis Rams, Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers

1973 - Sharlto Copley
actor: Disctict 9, The A-Team [2010], Wikus and Charlize, Alive in Joburg, Cubed

1973 - Samantha Harris
TV correspondent: Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America; co-host: Dancing with the Stars; actress: Beautiful, Drop Dead Gorgeous, George of the Jungle, D3: The Mighty Ducks

1976 - Jaleel White
actor: Family Matters, Camp Cucamongo, The Leftovers, Kids Don’t Tell, Silence of the Heart, Grown Ups

1978 - Shy Love
actress [2003-2012]: X-rated films: The Naughty Co-Ed Caper, Built for Sex, Underdressed and Oversexed, I Cream on Genie, Private Gold 69: Sex Thriller

1978 - Jimmy Rollins
baseball [shortstop]: Philadelphia Phillies [2000-2014]: 2008 World Series champs; Los Angeles Dodgers [2015], Chicago White Sox [2016]

1979 - Hilary Hahn
Grammy Award-winning violinist; has performed around the world as a soloist with leading orchestras and conductors and as a recitalist

1985 - Alison Pill
actress: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Safety Glass, One Way to Valhalla, Plain Truth, Fast Food High, The Pilot’s Wife; Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Blackbird, Mauritius

1987 - Lashana Lynch
actress: No Time to Die, Still Star-Crossed, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Marvels, No Time to Die, The Woman King

1993 - Omar Jimenez
CNN journalist and correspondent since 2017

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Jump to Top Hit Music on This Day    November 27

1950Harbor Lights (facts) - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Tony Alamo)
Goodnight Irene (facts) - The Weavers
Thinking of You (facts) - Don Cherry
I’m Moving On (facts) - Hank Snow

1959Mack the Knife (facts) - Bobby Darin
Don’t You Know (facts) - Della Reese
In the Mood (facts) - Ernie Fields Orchestra
Country Girl (facts) - Faron Young

1968Hey Jude (facts) - The Beatles
Love Child (facts) - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Magic Carpet Ride (facts) - Steppenwolf
Stand by Your Man (facts) - Tammy Wynette

1977You Light Up My Life (facts) - Debby Boone
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue (facts) - Crystal Gayle
How Deep Is Your Love (facts) - Bee Gees
The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don’t Want to Get Over You) (facts) - Waylon Jennings

1986Human (facts) - Human League
True Blue (facts) - Madonna
You Give Love a Bad Name (facts) - Bon Jovi
You’re Still New to Me (facts) - Marie Osmond with Paul Davis

1995Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (facts) - Whitney Houston
You Remind Me of Something (facts) - R. Kelly
Hey Lover (facts) - LL Cool J
Check Yes or No (facts) - George Strait

2004Over And Over (facts) - Nelly featuring Tim McGraw
My Boo (facts) - Usher & Alicia Keys
Lose My Breath (facts) - Destiny’s Child
Mr. Mom (facts) - Lonestar

2013Royals (facts) - Lorde
The Monster (facts) - Eminem featuring Rihanna
Wrecking Ball (facts) - Miley Cyrus
We Were Us (facts) - Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert

2022Anti-Hero (facts) - Taylor Swift
Rich Flex (facts) - Drake & 21 Savage
Unholy (facts) - Sam Smith & Kim Petras
You Proof (facts) - Morgan Wallen

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