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1789 - First national thanksgiving.

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1862 - The US government purchases the site for the future Denver Mint for $25,000.

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1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt signs a bill officially establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.

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1945 - During snow storm, school bus crashes, killing 15 (Washington).

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1973 - Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed to death.

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1973 - US President Richard Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.

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1975 - US Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford.

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1978 - Ten die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, New York.

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1985 - 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched.

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1985 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan sells the rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.

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