1803 – US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
1820 – Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million.
1864 – US President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
1873 – P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring “Greatest Show on Earth” opens (NYC).
1898 – NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms.
1917 – US suffragette Alice Paul begins a 7 month jail sentence for protesting women’s rights in Washington.
1930 – Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premieres on NBC radio.
1939 – “All the Things You Are” recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
1947 – Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years.
1955 – “No Time for Sergeants” opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith.
1963 – Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yards.
1967 – All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan, Mississippi.
1973 – US president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox.
1973 – President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st 1/2 century.
1987 – Dow Jones increases 102.27 pts/608,120,000 shares traded (record).
1989 – US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings.
1996 – Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series.
1997 – US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers.
1998 – Comedian Richard Pryor is awarded the 1st ever Mark Twain Prize for American Humour.
2015 – US Vice President Joe Biden confirms he will not run for President.
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