TODAY IN HISTORY
On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.
In 1955, “Captain Kangaroo” and “The Mickey
Mouse Club” premiered on CBS and ABC, respectively.
In 1967, folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, the Dust Bowl Troubadour best known for “This Land Is Your Land,” died; he was 55.
In 1981, Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes.
In 1995, the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles found the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.
In 2011, An Italian appeals court freed Amanda Knox, tossing murder convictions against Knox and an ex-boyfriend in the stabbing of their roommate.