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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1997: Actor and comedian Chris Farley is found dead at the age of 33 in his apartment in the John Hancock Center in Chicago. An autopsy would later reveal that Farley had died of a drug overdose early that morning.