The television debut of “The Original Amateur Hour” came on January
18, 1948 over the DuMont Network with Ted Mack as the host. The show
was on the air for 22 years.

1957

An estimated 250,000 spectators attended the first parade.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has been an annual event presented by the
retail store chain Macy’s since 1924. It is the second-oldest parade held in the U.S.
on Thanksgiving, along with Detroit’s America’s Thanksgiving Parade.The Macy’s
event has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.

   1914

Gertrude Berg (born Tillie Edelstein) played Molly 
Goldberg

The Goldbergs is a domestic comedy-drama featuring
the home life of a Jewish family living in the Bronx. The
program was devised by writer-actress Gertrude Berg
who also starred as the lovingly meddlesome matriarch
Molly Goldberg. The 15-minute program was broadcast
from 1929 to 1946, first on NBC, later moving to CBS in 
1936.