TODAY IN HISTORY - NOVEMBER 27TH

1811 – Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer, designed the threshing machine (b. 1719) dies.

1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

1863 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.

1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

1868 – American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.

1894 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (d. 1989) is born.

1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.

1901 – Clement Studebaker, American businessman, co-founded Studebaker (b. 1831) dies.

1924 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.

1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.

1973 – Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On December 6, the House will confirm him 387–35).

1975 – Ross McWhirter, English author and activist, co-founded the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925) dies.

1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.

2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

2007 – Robert Cade, American physician and academic, co-invented Gatorade (b. 1927) dies.

2015 – An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, shoots at least four members of the Colorado Springs Police Department. One officer later dies. Two civilians were also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered.