On this day in 1924, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in New York City.

On this day in 1930, the "Wushe Incident" broke out in central Taiwan when a group of aboriginal citizens launched a rebellion against Japanese rule, killing 134 Japanese. Hundreds of aborigines were also killed in the fighting and subsequent reprisals.

On this day in 1971, the Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter released a descent module. It malfunctioned and crashed, but it was nonetheless the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.