Mao Zedong (Tse-tung) 1893- Chinese statesman
- 1865 - The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason.
- 1941 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed a resolution that set the a fixed-date, the fourth Thursday of November, for the Federal Thanksgiving Day holiday.
- 1982 - The Man of the Year in "TIME" magazine was a computer. It was the first time a non-human received the honors.
- 1991 - The Soviet Union's parliament formally voted the country out of existence.
- 1995 - Israel turned dozens of West Bank villages over to the Palestinian Authority.
- 1996 - Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, CO.
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