On this day: December 18

POSTED: 10:51 PM PST Dec 17, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Dec 17, 2012 

America celebrates its first official day of thanksgiving, "The Nutcracker" debuts, the first "Pink Panther" short premieres, the first nuclear power plant in America goes online, all on this day.

OTD December 18 - Steven Spielberg
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1946: Steven Spielberg, the Academy Award-winning director of such movies as "Schindler's List," "Saving Private Ryan," "Jaws," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Jurassic Park," is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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