1895 – Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel’s will establishes the Nobel Prize.
1910 – New York’s Penn Station opens as world’s largest railway terminal.
1924 – In New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1926 – Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia begins.
1940 – 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan halfback.
1941 – New York Yankees’ Joe DiMaggio is named American League Most Valuable Player for the second time.
1944 – 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hurtgen in Germany during World War II.
1956 – NFL Draft: Paul Hornung from the University of Notre Dame is the first pick by the Green Bay Packers.
1960 – CBS radio cancels “Have Gun Will Travel.”
1962 – First Boeing 727 jet rolls out of an assembly plant in Renton, Washington.
1971 – Soviet Mars 2 becomes the first spacecraft to crash land on Mars.
1985 – St. Louis Cardinals’ Vince Coleman wins National League Rookie of the Year.
1989 – 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space.
1997 – Detroit Lions’ Barry Sanders becomes the NFL’s 2nd all-time rusher.
2005 – First partial human face transplant is completed for Isabelle Dinoire in Amiens, France.
2013 – “Frozen,” the highest grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released.
2017 – Great Britain’s Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle announce their engagement.
2018 – Convicted murderer Samuel Little is confirmed to be connected to 90 more murders of women after confessing details.
2019 – President Donald Trump signs two bills backing Hong Kong protesters, which check the territories’ autonomy and ban the sale of munitions to Hong Kong police, angering China.
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