1895 – At the SwedishNowegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.
1924 – In New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.
1973 – The U.S. Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President.
1978 – In San Francisco, Mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
2015 – An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shoots at least four police officers. One officer later dies. Two civilians were killed and six injured. The shooter later surrendered.
