1778 British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1789 1st national Thanksgiving in America.
1914 Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die.
1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt.
1941 Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor.
1944 Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria.
1950 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River.
2003 Supersonic airplane the Concorde makes its last ever flight, returning to Bristol, England.
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