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• The flights followed days of angry rhetoric and accusations over Beijing's move, designed to assert Beijing's claim to a group of uninhabited islands controlled by Japan.
• The U.S. and Japan have said they don't acknowledge the zone, and Taiwan and South Korea, both close to the U.S., also rejected it.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Wednesday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2013. There are 34 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Nov. 27, 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.
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• On this date:
• In 1701, astronomer Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale, was born in Uppsala, Sweden.
• In 1901, the U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.
• In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad began regularly serving New York's Pennsylvania Station.
• In 1942, during World War II, the French navy at Toulon (too-LOHN') scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of German troops.
• In 1953, playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65.
• 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 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.
• In 1999, Northern Ireland's biggest party, the Ulster Unionists, cleared the way (Continued on page 36)
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