🦃 Happy Thanksgiving! Here's a look at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade through the decades.⬇️ The Macy’s Thanksgiving parade originated in 1924, then called the Macy’s Christmas Parade. Santa made his first appearance that year, and he has appeared at the conclusion of the parade ever since.

On Sunday, 20 years of U.S. efforts against the Taliban and a nation-building experiment in Afghanistan were erased in just a few months as the Taliban captured the capital city of Kabul.

Here's a thread of the conflict's history in front pages. ⬇️ nyti.ms/3yUBiGq October 7, 2001: Operation Enduring Freedom begins with U.S. and U.K. airstrikes in Afghanistan. nyti.ms/3iSj0jE

“‘What, you still have a car in the city?’ The well-meaning friend who had driven in from the suburbs for dinner with us let her fork slip into the fondue. ‘When are you going to get rid of it?’” Keeping a car in New York City comes with all sorts of its own hassles, @nytimes reported in 1970: the nightly pre-martini search for a parking spot for the next day (post-martini is too late — by then the spots are all gone). And of course: the costs. nyti.ms/3iLEuyN

July 17, 1902: It was another scorcher in New York City. The week before, seven deaths tied to the heat had been reported. Willis Haviland Carrier, an engineer trying to combat humidity at a printing plant in Brooklyn, invented air-conditioning. nyti.ms/2VViCbx Air conditioning changed the United States. It allowed for sweeping development of the South with the innovation of central air. nyti.ms/2VViCbx