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• 1789 - US President George Washington proclaims the first national Thanksgiving Day on November 26.
• 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe is found unconscious in Baltimore, Maryland. He may have been a victim of "cooping", forced to vote repeatedly.
• 1862 - Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, CSA.
• 1863 - US President Abraham Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
• 1913 - US Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1 percent)
• 1955 - The ABC TV network launches Disney's second TV show The Mickey Mouse Club. It is a daily one-hour series, showing cartoons and introducing the talents of the "Mouseketeers".
• 1993 - A large scale battle erupts between U.S. forces and local militia in Mogadishu, Somalia; two Black Hawk helicopters are shot down; 19 Americans and 500 Somalis are killed.
• 1920 - American Pro Football Association plays first games.
• 1947 - With only one out to go, New York Yankees pitcher Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his World Series no-hit bid; it scored two runs and he lost the game (World Series #44). Cookie Lavagetto with the Double and 2 RBI's.
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• Major league career[edit]

  Lavagetto was born in Oakland, California. Nicknamed "Cookie" after an owner of the Oakland Oaks, his first professional team, he played ten seasons in the National League with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1934–36) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1937–41; 1946–47), missing four full seasons due to World War II service the United States Navy.^[1] A right-handed batter and thrower, he hit .269 with 945 hits in 1,043 games, including 183 doubles, 37 triples, and 40 home runs. His best season was 1939, when he hit .300 with 87 runs batted in for Brooklyn.

  Return to minors and major league coach[edit]

  After being released by the Dodgers following the 1947 Series, Lavagetto returned to Oakland to finish his playing career with the Oaks (1948–50). When Oakland manager Chuck Dressen was named the field leader of the Dodgers in 1951, Lavagetto accompanied him and returned to Brooklyn as one of his coaches. He was an aide to Dressen with Brooklyn (1951–53) and the Pacific Coast League Oaks (1954), and followed him a third time as a member of the coaching staff when Dressen became manager of the Washington Senators in 1955.^[2]

  Senators'/Twins' manager[edit]

  But on May 7, 1957, with the Senators foundering in last place, Dressen was fired and Lavagetto named his successor. The team improved slightly, but finished last in 1957, 1958 and 1959. Finally, in 1960, Lavagetto's Senators rose to fifth place in the eight-team American League. The club featured promising young players such as Harmon Killebrew, Jim Kaat, Earl Battey and Bob Allison, as well as veteran pitcher Camilo Pascual, just entering his prime. But the Senators' encouraging 1960 season came too late to keep the franchise in Washington; owner Calvin Griffith moved the club to Minneapolis–St. Paul, where it became the Minnesota Twins.
  Lavagetto was the first manager in Twins' history, but he did not finish the 1961 season. With the Twins mired in ninth place in the new ten-team AL, he took a seven-game leave of absence in early June and then returned to the helm. But he was fired June 23 with the club still in ninth place. He was replaced by coach Sam Mele, under whom the Twins became pennant contenders in 1962 (finishing in second place to the Yankees) and pennant winners in 1965. Lavagetto, as manager for the so-called "Griffs", won 271 and lost 384 (.414).
• 1948 - NFL becomes first sport televised as sport of the week.
• 1951 - The New York Giants win the pennant defeating Brooklyn Dodgers.
• 1960 - New York Yankees win 8-7, ending season on a 15-game win streak.
• 1965 - Whitey Ford pitches number 232 to become New York Yankees' winningest pitcher.
• 1965 - On the last day of the season, San Francisco Giants' outfielder Willie Mays hits his 52nd home run to break the franchise record he established in 1955. San Francisco Giants defeat Cincinnati Reds at Candlestick Park, 6-3.
• 1970 - Baseball umpires call their first strike.
• 1971 - Billie Jean King becomes first female athlete to win $100,000.
• 1972 - Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Philadelphia Phillies (almost half of their 59 wins).
• 1982 - Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland).
• 1982 - Record 11,763 start a 186-mile cross-country race near Stockholm, Sweden.
• 1982 - Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than five hours.
• 1987 - Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile.
• 1990 - George Brett becomes first to lead league in batting in three decades.
• 1990 - Detroit Tigers' Cecil Fielder becomes 11th to hit 50 home runs (and 51st).
• 2004 - The Montreal Expos play their last baseball game in their 36-year history