On this Date
1789 First national Thanksgiving in the US
1791 First US cabinet meeting is held at George Washington's home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox
1842 The University of Notre Dame is founded
1861 West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virginia
1865 "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is published in America
1896 Amos Alonzo Stagg of University of Chicago creates American football huddle
1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's nearly intact tomb in Egypt
1922 First successful Technicolor movie, "The Toll of the Sea," premieres at the Rialto Theatre in New York City
1942 "Casablanca," directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres at Hollywood Theater, NYC (Academy Award for Best Picture 1943)
1948 The first Polaroid camera, the Land Camera model 95, sells for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store and becomes the prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras for the next 15 years
1961 For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
1976 British punk rockers Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK"
1990 Buffalo Bills become the 6 th first-place NFL team to lose on the same weekend
2003 Supersonic airplane the Concorde makes its last ever flight, returning to Bristol, England
2022 2,500 people pose naked for photographer Spencer Tunick on Australia's Bondi Beach to raise awareness of skin cancer
