1924: Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a “Christmas Parade” — took place in New York.

1978: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and city Supervisor and gay rights activist Harvey Milk were fatally shot inside City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White.

2015: A gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, killing three people and injuring nine. (He has been repeatedly found mentally incompetent to stand trial.)

In the world

2003: President George W. Bush flew to Iraq under extraordinary secrecy and security to spend Thanksgiving with U.S. troops and thank them for “defending the American people from danger.”

Today’s birthdays

Fashion designer Manolo Blahnik is 82. Film director Kathryn Bigelow is 73. Science educator Bill Nye is 69. Author and former first daughter Caroline Kennedy is 67. Baseball Hall of Famer Iván Rodríguez is 53. Actor Jaleel White is 48. — The Associated Press