CNN Interactive - Almanac - November 27, 1998

The traditional U.S. holiday shopping season starts today.
The Stock market is scheduled to close at 1 p.m. in New York.
Relatives of Swissair Flight 111 crash victims are scheduled to travel to the site in Nova Scotia where the plane went down September 2. About a dozen members from five different victims' families are expected to make the trip.

On Saturday, November 28, The Media Foundation marks its annual 'Buy Nothing Day' in an attempt to counteract holiday shopping 'affluenza' and return to a less commercialized season.
On Sunday, November 29, the annual Hollywood Christmas Parade takes place in New York.
On Monday, November 30, a hearing for three boys charged on November 18 with conspiracy to commit first-degree intentional homicide at Burlington High School is scheduled in Racine, Washington. Prosecutors have asked for psychological evaluations of the boys.
On Tuesday, December 1, The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing in Washington on 'The Consequences of Perjury and Related Crimes.' Testimony is expected from judges and convicted perjurers.
On Wednesday, December 2, The 66th annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony takes place in New York.

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Avoid the crowded malls. Get the best shopping online by clicking here.		TV personality Buffalo Bob ("The Howdy Doody Show") is 81. Actress Robin Givens ("A Rage in Harlem") is 34. Singer Eddie Rabbitt is 54. Author Gail Henion Sheehy ("Pathfinders") is 61.

In 8 B.C., the Roman poet Horace died.
In 1701, Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale and the Celsius thermometer, was born in Sweden.
In 1874, Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, was born.
In 1895, the French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas died.
In 1921, Alexander Dubcek was born. As first secretary of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party he launched the "Prague Spring" of liberalization which led to an invasion by the Soviet Union.
In 1941, the last Italian forces in Ethiopia surrendered at Gondar.
In 1967, French President Charles De Gaulle ruled out negotiations for an early British entry into the European Common Market.
In 1975, Ross McWhirter, co-editor and compiler of the Guinness Book of World Records, was shot dead by Irish Republican Army (IRA) gunmen at his home.
In 1983, an Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, killing 181 people.