OJ Simpson acquitted
OJ Simpson was acquitted in the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman. The former football player had been accused of murdering his ex-wife and her friend on June 13, 1994.

UK tests its first atomic bomb
Also called Operation Hurricane, the test was conducted near the Montebello Islands in Western Australia.

Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom
The country came under British control in 1920, after the end of the First World War. The British installed the deposed Syrian King Faisal I as the King of Iraq.

National Thanksgiving Day proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day.