This Day in History: Nov. 5

 COVID-19  pandemic is still happening, so Thanksgiving will be a lot different this year, but one thing we can still count on is millions of Americans tuning into the  Macy‘s Thanksgiving Day Parade .“We will still be doing a live parade on Thanksgiving Day, but it‘s going to be shortened and it’s going to be something that’s only for the viewers at home,” the parade’s executive producer Susan Tercero said in a statement about this year’s festivities.What that means for fans of the parade at

Also on this day:  On this date: Frederick County, Md., becomes the first colonial American entity to repudiate the British Stamp Act.Enrico Caruso makes his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing in “Rigoletto.” Life magazine, created by Henry R. Luce, is first published.The musical “Fiorello!,” starring Tom Bosley as legendary New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, opens on Broadway.President Lyndon B.

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Dua Lipa flies through a theatre for her epic performance at the 2020 American Music Awards, which is airing on Sunday (November 22) and taking place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Also on this day: The “S-O-S” distress signal is adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.The First Battle of Ypres during World War I ends with an Allied victory against Germany. A flying boat, the China Clipper, takes off from Alameda, Calif., carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.The Humane Society of the United States is incorporated as the National Humane Society.

Also on this day: British troops capture Fort Washington in New York during the American Revolution.The newly created Federal Reserve Banks open in 12 cities.The United States and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations. Al Capone, right, Chicago's infamous gang overlord during prohibition, leaves Harrisburg, Pa., on Nov.

Also on this day: During the American Revolution, the Continental Army captures Montreal. Benjamin Franklin writes in a letter to a friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”A fire erupts inside a coal mine in Cherry, Ill., killing 259 men and boys.President Franklin D.

Also on this day: Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen, the first provisional president of the Republic of China, is born. Baseball gets its first “czar” as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected commissioner of the American and National Leagues.The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens as President Franklin D.

On Veterans Day, Americans gather to pay a debt of gratitude to the generations who’ve answered the call to serve in the armed forces of the United States. From Bunker Hill to Belleau Wood, from San Juan Hill to Saipan, from the Coral Reef to Kandahar, nearly 50 million men and women have donned the uniform of the United States, and nearly 20 million veterans still walk among us. Today a new generation of American heroes and veterans is being forged around the nation and around the world.

Prince Harry‘s request to have a wreath laid to pay respect to fallen servicemen and women during Sunday’s (November 8) Remembrance Day in England was denied by Buckingham Palace.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle commemorated Remembrance Day in the U.S. while his family marked the holiday across the pond.

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