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Today In History
The first Thanksgiving, first black-owned radio station opens, first buffalo wings are served, Germany is reunified, O.J. Simpson is acquitted.
1789 - George Washington made the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.
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 brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.
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1919 - Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series.
1932 - Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
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1942 - Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.
1949 - WERD, the 1st black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta, Georgia.
1951 - The "Shot Heard 'Round the World", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants'Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win theNational League pennant after being down 14 games.
1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
1957 - Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
1961 - The Dick Van Dyke Show premieres on CBS-TV in the United States.
1964 - First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
1990 - Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated asGerman Unity Day.
1995 - O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
2003 - Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the show's tigers, canceling the show until 2009, when they rejoined the tiger that mauled Roy just six years earlier.
2008 - The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.
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