1789 – Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on November 26.
1849 – American author Edgar Allan 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.
1872 – Bloomingdale’s department store in NY opens.
1899 – JS Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaners.
1906 – SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy.
1913 – Federal income tax signed into law (at 1%).
1922 – 1st facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, DC.
1940 – US forms parachute troops.
1945 – Elvis Presley’s 1st public appearance at the age of 10.
1948 – NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of week.
1954 – “Father Knows Best” premieres.
1955 – “Captain Kangaroo” premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain!
1955 – “Mickey Mouse Club” premieres.
1960 – US sitcom “The Andy Griffith Show” premieres on CBS (runs till 1968).
1971 – Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000.
1992 – Atlanta Braves win franchise record 98th game (old record 95 in 1957).
1995 – OJ Simpson found not guilty of the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, California.
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.
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