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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1892: Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" is first performed, as a double premiere together with Tchaikovsky's last opera, "Iolanta," at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.