On this day...

2333 -BC- Tangun establishes kingdom of Chosun (Korea) (legendary)
1264 Comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
1430 Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
1789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
1862 Battle of Corinth, Miss
1863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
1904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School
1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
1918 Boris becomes king of Bulgaria
1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
1922 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC
1928 French sub "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
1929 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
1942 Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
1945 World Federation of Trade Unions formed; CIO a member
1947 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed
1947 With only 1 out to go, Yankee Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his world series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs & he lost the game (World Series #44)
1948 NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of the week
1949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
1950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
1951 Bobby Thomson HR-The Giants win the pennant defeating Dodgers
1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
1954 "Father Knows Best" premieres
1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres, Good Morning, Captain!
1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
1960 SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
1960 Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak
1961 "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1961 "Mr Ed" premieres 1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
1965 Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
1967 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
1968 Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando Bela£nde Terry in Peru
1970 Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
1971 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
1972 Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies (almost « of their 59 wins)
1974 Bundy victim (?) Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1974 Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 Watergate trial begins 1975 George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in UK
1978 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike
1982 Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)
1982 Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm
1982 Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours
1983 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK
1985 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die 1987 Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile
1988 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days
1988 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
1988 WBMW-FM, Wash DC changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern
1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
1990 East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
1990 George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades
1990 Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 HRs (& 51st)
1990 Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obscenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records