1534: Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad

1563: Council of Trent holds its last session after 18 years, the last ecumenical council for more than 300 years
Famous and historically inaccurate painting of the English Pilgrims and Native American Wampanoag gathering and sharing a mealThe First Thanksgiving

1619: Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish, England, disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God, considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas

1791: Britain’s “The Observer” is first published and becomes the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper

1829: Britain outlaws “suttee” in India, a Hindu practice where a widow burns herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre

1918: US President Woodrow Wilson sails for the Versailles Peace Conference in France

Source: Onthisday.com