A fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts kills 492 people.

The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held in New York City.

President George Washington proclaims a national Thanksgiving Day at the request of Congress.

The “Hollywood Ten” are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios during the so-called ‘Red Scare’.

Charles Darwin publishes his book, On the Origin of Species.

A cyclone in Sri Lanka kills over 1000 people.

A fictional character, Max Headroom, hijacks two Chicago television stations.

Albert Einstein publishes a paper, “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?” that later leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E…

Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals begin at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg.

The National Review publishes its first issue.