Today is Sunday, Nov. 27, the 332d day of 2016. There are 34 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Author Gail Sheehy is 79. Footwear designer Manolo Blahnik is 74. Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is 65. TV host Bill Nye (“Bill Nye, the Science Guy’’) is 61. Actor William Fichtner is 60. Caroline Kennedy, US ambassador to Japan, is 59. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri is 59. Jazz composer/big band leader Maria Schneider is 56. Rock musician Mike Bordin (Faith No More) is 54. Actor Fisher Stevens is 53. Actress Robin Givens is 52. Rapper Twista is 44. Actor Jaleel White is 40. Actress Alison Pill is 31. Actress/singer Aubrey Peeples is 23.

In 1815, the constitution for the Congress Kingdom of Poland was signed by Russian Czar Alexander I, who was also king of Poland.

In 1901, the US Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.

In 1924, Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a ‘‘Christmas Parade’’ — took place in New York.

In 1939, the play ‘‘Key Largo,’’ by Maxwell Anderson, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.

In 1942, during World War II, the Vichy French navy scuttled its ships and submarines in Toulon to keep them out of the hands of German troops.

In 1945, General George C. Marshall was named special US envoy to China by President Harry S. Truman to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists.

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 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.

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 2006, President George W. Bush, stopping over in Estonia en route to a NATO summit in Latvia and meetings in Jordan, intensified diplomatic efforts to quell rising violence in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 2011, in an unprecedented move against an Arab nation, the Arab League approved economic sanctions against Syria to pressure Damascus to end its deadly suppression of an eight-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad.

In 2015, a gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, killing threepeople and injuring nine.