1789 – Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on November 26.
1849 – American author Edgar Allen Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
1863 – Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1899 – J.S. Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
1913 – US Federal income tax signed into law (at 1%) by President Woodrow Wilson.
1922 – Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate.
1922 – 1st facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.
1940 – US forms parachute troops.
1942 – FDR forms Office of Economic Stabilization.
1954 – “Father Knows Best” premieres.
1955 – “Mickey Mouse Club” premieres.
1960 – San Francisco’s White House department store is the 1st to accept BankAmericard.
1974 – Ted Bundy victim Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1984 – US government shuts down due to lack of agreement over passage of bills.
1993 – Somali General Aidids armed forces kill 17 US Rangers.
1996 -Thunderdome in Tampa Bay renamed Tropicana Field.
2003 – Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the shows tigers, canceling the show for good.
2008 – The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
2014 – 83 million accounts are compromised after a cyber attack on JP Morgan Chase & 9 other financial institutions.
2015 – US airstrikes hits Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing around 19.
2017 – US President Donald Trump visits Puerto Rico devastated by hurricane Maria.