Nov. 27 (UPI) -- On this date in history:
In 1901, the U.S. War Department authorized creation of the Army War College to instruct commissioned officers. It was built in Leavenworth, Kan.
In 1924, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade took place in New York.
In 1940, two months after Gen. Ion Antonescu seized power in Romania and forced King Carol II to abdicate, more than 60 aides of the exiled king, including Nicolae Iorga, a former minister and acclaimed historian, were executed.
File Photo courtesy the Germany Federal Archive
