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Fast facts: About 75,600,000 pumpkin pies are baked each winter holiday season in the United States. The shoes of the large helium balloon of fast-food icon Ronald McDonald in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade each measure 22 feet long and 8 feet wide. The first Thanksgiving celebration was held in 1621. The top two Thanksgiving Day pie picks are pumpkin at 28 percent and apple at 25 percent. The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was temporarily halted in the early 1940s during World War II because rubber and helium could not be wasted.

 

On this date: In 1783, the first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon when Frenchmen Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes above Paris. In 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1871, M.F. Gale of New York City patented the cigar lighter. In 1877,Thomas A. Edison invented his "talking machine" (phonograph). On Feb. 19, 1878, Edison received a patent for it. In 1920, the Irish Republican Army shot and killed 14 British soldiers in what became known as the country's first "Bloody Sunday."

 

Quotable... "Evil must not be allowed to rule even one inch of this earth." - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Phillipines on the Filipino war against terrorism.