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giving to express gratitude for the creation of the United States of America.
• In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.
• In 1932, Iraq became independent of British administration.
• In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Office of Economic Stabilization.
• In 1951, the New York Giants captured the National League pennant by a score of 5-4 as Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer off the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ralph Branca in the "shot heard 'round the world."
• In 1952, Britain conducted its first atomic test as it detonated a 25-kiloton device in the Monte Bello Islands off Australia. The situation comedy "Our Miss Brooks," formerly a radio show, premiered on CBS-TV with Eve Arden again in the title role.
• In 1962, the British musical "Stop the World -- I Want to Get Off" opened on Broadway with Anthony Newley and Anna Quayle reprising their West End roles.
• In 1967, folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie died in New York at age 55.
• In 1970, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was established under the Department of Commerce.
• In 1992, Barack Obama married Michelle Robinson at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
• In 1995, the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial found the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman (however, Simpson was later found liable in a civil trial).
• In 2008, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. (Simpson was later sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison.)
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• Ten years ago: Five people were shot to death in the Washington, D.C. area within a 14-hour period, sparking the hunt for the "Beltway Sniper." Hurricane Lili gave Louisiana's coast a 100-mile-an-hour battering. Producer-director Bruce Paltrow, 58, died in Rome, Italy.
• Five years ago: North Korea agreed to provide a complete list of its nuclear programs and disable its facilities at its main reactor complex by December 31, 2007. (However, North Korea later said it would move to restore its nuclear reactor, saying the United States had failed to follow through with promised incentives.) President George W. Bush quietly vetoed expansion of a children's health insurance program.
• One year ago: An Italian appeals court freed Amanda Knox of Seattle after four years in prison, tossing murder convictions against Knox and an ex-boyfriend in the

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