President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the US.
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JonBenét Ramsey was found dead.
After taking the world of technology by storm, the PC was named TIME's Man of the Year.
A devastating tsunami and earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean.
The horror film 'The Exorcist,' based on book and screenplay by William Peter Blatty, premiered.
A security patrol near RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, UK, saw what they believed to be a UFO.