Cyber Monday [Monday after Thanksgiving, advertised as the first official online shopping day of the Christmas season]
NATIONAL Pins and Needles Day
NATIONAL Craft Jerky Day
NATIONAL Bavarian Cream Pie Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1910 New York's Pennsylvania Station opened
1951 Cease-fire and demarcation zone accord was signed in Panmunjom, Korea
1973 The Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned
1978 San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, are assassinated by former city supervisor Dan White
2001 The Hubble Space Telescope discovers a hydrogen atmosphere on planet Osiris, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet
2003 President Bush flew to Iraq under extraordinary secrecy and security to spend Thanksgiving with US troops
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