1900 – New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million.
1903 – The Wright brothers make the 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1924 – 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY.
1928 – John McGraw backs NL President John Heydler’s designated hitter idea.
1933 – National Football League Championship – 1st title game, Wrigley Field, Chicago: Chicago Bears beat New York Giants, 23-21; “Bronko Nagurski Rule” – forward pass is legal anywhere behind the line of scrimmage.
1944 – US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast, detainees released.
1947 – NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27″ of snow.
1953 – US Federal Communications Commission approves RCA’s black & white-compatible color TV specifications.
1957 – Last episode of “The Nat King Cole Show” airs on NBC, cancelled due to lack of national sponsorship.
1965 – 1st concert event at Houston Astrodome: Judy Garland headlines, with The Supremes as opening act.
1975 – Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford’s life.
1978 – OPEC raises oil prices by 18% and agrees on a 14.5% petroleum price increase for 1979, to be implemented quarterly.
1986 – US Congress forms “Irangate” committee.
1989 – “The Simpsons” created by Matt Groening, premieres on Fox TV as a full animated series with the episode, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire.”
1991 – Soap opera “One Life To Live” airs its 6,000tu episode.
1999 – The United Nations General Assembly passes resolution 54/134 designating November 25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
2003 – SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight.
2014 – 103-year-old Gus Andreone records the 8th ace of his career on the 113-yard, 14th hole of the Lakes Course, Palm Aire, Sarasota, Fla.; oldest golfer to record a hole-in-one.
2018 – Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is “justice”
2018 – US poacher sentenced to watch the film “Bambi” repeatedly during a year in prison, for killing hundreds of deer in Missouri.
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