Macys Parade Through the Years Photo Gallery
1930 - The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade passes down Broadway in New York on Nov. 27, 1930. The parade's first giant balloons debuted in 1927. (AP Photo/File)
1939 New York World's Fair
For two years thousands of persons flocked to New York City to look at the “World of Tomorrow,” an ultramodern fair, exhibiting the products of man’s genius. View of the fairgrounds made on Nov. 27, 1940 as the “World of Tomorrow” came tumbling down. The fair “Theme” structure, the Perisphere and Trylon, is in the background. (AP Photo)
Czech Pro Democracy Protests
A girl among hundreds of thousands of demonstrators fill Wenceslas Square in Prague as a nationwide two-hour general strike is under way, Nov. 27, 1989. The strike was called by the opposition movement. (AP Photo/Greg English)
London Peace Rally 1976
The Ulster Peace Rally in Trafalgar Square, London, on Nov. 27, 1976, which is being led by Mrs Betty Williams, co-founder of the Peace Movement. (AP Photo/Harris)
Russia Food Shortage
A Soviet woman stares at rows of empty refrigerators used for storing milk, instead the refrigerators are used to display plastic shopping bags at a local supermarket in Moscow on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 1990. The shortage of milk has joined a growing list of daily consumer goods that have vanished from the shelves. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Squeaky Fromme Convicted 1975
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme sits in a U.S. Marshal's car in Sacramento, Calif., Nov. 27, 1975, after being convicted of attempting to assassinate President Ford with a gun on September 5. (AP Photo)
SPANISH PLANE CRASH 1983
People watch rescue workers search through the wreckage for missing persons, after a Avianca Jumbo 747 crashed near Madrid, on Nov. 27, 1983. Eleven people survived the crash and at least 180 people died. (AP Photo)
Natural Disasters
A group of survivors of the cyclone and flooding in southeast Indian on Nov. 27, 1977, from the roof of a stone building that remained standing as an Indian Air Force helicopter on a relief mission was passing overhead. The building was one of a very few structures left standing in the area. (AP Photo/Barry Schlachter)
Coretta Scott King, Pamela Mboya, Terry Kariuki
Coretta King, center, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., visits Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Nov. 27, 1975 with two widows whose husbands were assassinated. The women are Pamela Mboya, left, widow of Kenya politician Tome Mboya, and Terry Kariuki, right, widow of Kenya freedom fighter J.M. Kariuki. Mrs. King, on a three-nation African tour, said on Thursday that King’s assassination apparently was caused by a government conspiracy and that investigations into his slaying should be reopened. (AP Photo)
HAITIAN REFUGEES
Haitian refugees gather at the entrance to Camp Bulkeley, a tent city at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba on Nov. 27, 1991. Rescues continue at sea for Haitians fleeing the worsening economic hardships. Tents set up to house the refugees can be seen in the background. U.S. officials fear overcrowding by the end of the week. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)
AIRLINER CRASH SPAIN 1983
Rescue workers carry coffins at the scene of an air disaster near Madrid, Spain, on Nov. 27, 1983, after the crash of an Avianca Jumbo 747 air liner. 11 passengers survived the crash and 183 died. (AP Photo)
WWII Russia German Mountain Post
A sentry looks through binoculars at the highest machine gun position in the Caucasus Mountains, in Russia on Nov. 27, 1941. (AP Photo)
Korean War 1950
Members of the U.S. 7th Division move up the road leading the Hyesanjin, near the Manchurian border in North Korea, Nov. 27, 1950. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry)
Alcatraz Indian Occupation 1969
Two Indian youngsters find a warm sunny spot to play with dolls as their parents and an estimated 200 others set up housekeeping on Alcatraz in San Francisco, Nov. 27, 1969, site of former federal prison, which they claim under an old treaty. Entrance to the main cell block of the prison is seen in the background. A hand printed sign reading "This land is my land" hangs over the door. (AP Photo/Robert W. Klein)
WWII Africa
These Australian troops approach a German held strong point under the protection of a heavy smoke screen somewhere in the Western Desert, Nov. 27, 1942. This official British picture was made as they prepared to rush in from different sides. They are part of the allied forces chasing the Axis forces westward across North Africa. (AP Photo)