America celebrates its first official day of thanksgiving, "The Nutcracker" debuts, the first "Pink Panther" short premieres, the first nuclear power plant in America goes online, all on this day.
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1946: Steven Spielberg, the Academy Award-winning director of such movies as "Schindler's List," "Saving Private Ryan," "Jaws," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Jurassic Park," is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.