December 4th, 2008

Today in History

1991:
1991 - US airline Pan Am ends operations.

1981:
South Africa grants "homeland" Ciskei independence (not recognized outside South Africa).

1943:
Great Depression ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to World War II-related employment, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration.

1791:
The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.

1619:
Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).