Today is Wednesday, November 27, the 331th day of 2013. There are 33 days left in the year. In 1701, Anders Celsius was born in Sweden.
He was the inventor of the Celsius thermometer. On this date:
In 1839 - The American Statistical Association was founded in Boston.
In 1901 - The Army War College was established in Washington, DC.
In 1939 - The play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened in New York.
In 1951 - Hosea Richardson became the first black horse racing jockey to be licensed in Florida.
In 1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress.
In 1970 - Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
In 1973 - The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew.
In 1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor.
In 1989 - 107 people were killed when a bomb destroyed a Colombian jetliner minutes after the plane had taken off from Bogota's international airport. Police blamed the incident on drug traffickers.
In 1991 - The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that led the way for the establishment of a UN peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia.
In 1992 - In Venezuela, rebel forces tried but failed to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez for the second time in ten months.
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