Thanksgiving Day
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| Thanksgiving postcard circa 1900 |
NATIONAL Eat a Cranberry Day
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NATIONAL Espresso Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1783 Annapolis, Maryland became the US capital until June 1784
1785 John Hancock is elected president of the Continental Congress for the second time
1889 The first jukebox was installed at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco
1909 The Wright brothers form a million-dollar corporation for the commercial manufacture of their airplanes
1921 President Warren G. Harding signs the Willis-Campbell Act, better known as the anti-beer bill. It forbids doctors to prescribe beer or liquor for medicinal purposes.
1936 First issue of Life magazine hit the newsstands
1942 The film Casablanca premieres in New York City
1945 Wartime meat and butter rationing ends in the United States
1992 The first Smartphone, IBM’s Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada
2000 In Florida, the Supreme Court rejected an emergency plea by Al Gore to force Miami-Dade County to resume manual vote counts
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