• Today is Tuesday, Nov. 27, the 332nd day of 2012. There are 34 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Nov. 27, 1942, during World War II, the Vichy French navy at Toulon (too-LOHN') scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of German troops.
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• On this date:
• In 1839, the American Statistical Association was founded in Boston.
• In 1901, the U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.
• In 1910, New York's Pennsylvania Station officially opened.
• In 1911, the stage comedy "The Playboy of the Western World" by J.M. Synge received a hostile reception in New York because of its portrayal of Irish characters. Theatrical producer David Merrick was born in St. Louis.
• In 1937, the musical revue "Pins and Needles," produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, opened in New York.
• In 1939, the play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.
• In 1962, the first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company's Renton Plant.
• In 1970, Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
• In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.
• In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (mahs-KOH'-nee) and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.
• In 1983, 181 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport.
• In 1989, a bomb blamed on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian Avianca Boeing 727, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground.
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• Ten years ago: U.N. specialists began a new round of weapons inspections in

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