The United States exhibited the country’s first-ever lion in Boston.
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President George Washington proclaimed the day an official National Day of Thanksgiving for the United States of America.
NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory probe, which carried the Curiosity Rover to Mars.
France successfully launched their first satellite, Astérix, into Earth's orbit.
The New York and Harlem Railroad became the first railroad to operate in the US.
The Titanic of New England, the SS Portland, sunk off the coast of Maine.
