On this day in 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
On this day in 1963, The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" were released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
And on this day in 1982, Time's Man of the Year was for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.