On October 3, 1863, expressing gratitude for a pivotal Union Army
victory at Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln announced that
the nation will celebrate an official Thanksgiving holiday on
November 26, 1863.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

(FOX NEWS) – Lawmakers have voted to oust Speaker Kevin
McCarthy, R-Calif., from his leadership role, the first time in the
history of the House of Representatives that the chamber voted
to boot a member from the top job. 

Eight Republicans voted with every present Democrat to vacate
the speaker’s chair. The final vote was 216 to 210 in favor of
McCarthy’s ouster.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., introduced the motion to vacate McCarthy.

Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., is the new temporary leader
of the House of Representatives.

At the end of a sensational trial, former football star O.J. Simpson
was acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged
wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

On September 2, 1967, Chief Justice Earl Warren swore
in Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court.

As chief counsel for the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s 
and ’50s, Marshall was the architect and executor of
legal strategy that ended the era of official racial
segregation 

                                       
                                          Thurgood Marshall (1908 – 1993)       
      
                                                                                                                                      

Football player Chip Hinton (Left) trying J. Robert Cade’s invention in 1965.

On October 2, 1965, a team of scientists invented Gatorade,
sports drink to quench thirst, in a University of Florida lab.

The name "Gatorade" is derived from the nickname of the
university’s sports teams. Eventually, the drink becomes
a phenomenon and made its inventors wealthy.

Early in the summer of 1965, University of Florida assistant
football coach Dewayne Douglas met a group of scientists
on campus to determine why many of Florida’s players were
so negatively affected by heat. To replace bodily fluids lost
during physical exertion, Dr. James Robert Cade and his
team of researchers, doctors H. James Free, Dana Shires
and Alex de Quesada, created the now-ubiquitous sports
drink.

1969