On this date in

42 BCE An army led Mark Anthony and Octavius battled against forces led by Julius Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.

1226 Saint Francis of Assisi died.

1849 Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore. It would be last time he would be seen in public before he died.

1863 President Abraham Lincoln declared the fourth Thursday in November would be celebrated as Thanksgiving.

1908 Leon Trotsky and other Russian exiles in Vienna start the newspaper Pravda.

1929 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

1951 The New York Giants won the National League Pennant when Bobby Thompson launches "the shot heard round the world."

1955 Captain Kangaroo debuted on CBS television and the Mickey Mouse Club debuted on ABC.

1964 The Anchor Bar in Buffalo, N.Y., introduced Buffalo Wings.

1967 Woody Guthrie died.

1990 Germany was re-unified.

1995 O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Born on this date:
Warner Oland (1880-1938)
Leo McCarey (1898-1969)
Gertrude Berg (1899-1966)
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
Ray Stark (1915-2004)
James Herriot (1916-1995)
Eddie Cochran (1938-1960)
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954-1990)