Facts & Historical Events On This Day.
The crew aboard the International Space Station celebrated Thanksgiving.
The world's largest luxury goods corporation, Louis Vuitton (LVMH), bought jeweler Tiffany & Co. for $16.2 billion.
The Netherlands granted Suriname independence, and has since been celebrated as Suriname Independence Day.
President George Papadopoulos was ousted by the army, just a week after student-led protests at the Athens Polytechnic were violently put down by the government.
President John F. Kennedy's funeral was held in Washington, D.C.
Mirabal sisters assassinated by Trujillo regime.
Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens at London's West End.
"Storm of the century" hits eastern U.S.
Nazi Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact.
USPTO received a trademark for the Kleenex brand name.
Telimco made the first-ever advertisement for a civilian radio set.
John B. Meyenberg from St. Louis, Missouri, patented powdered milk.
The romantic comedic opera 'Marta' premiered in Vienna by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.
A deadly cyclone struck east India killing over 300,000 people and destroying 20,000 ships.
The US had its first sword-swallowing performance in New York City.
The UK approved the first American patent.
A fatal earthquake killed 80,000 people near the city of Shamakhi, Azerbaijan.
A peasant uprising called the Cudgel War began in Finland.
The Treaty of Granada was signed, marking the end of the Grenada War, which started in 1482.
