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Today in History ~ November 26
Events1580 - French Huguenots & Catholics sign peace treaty
1688 - King James II escapes back to London
1702 - Premiere of Colley Cibber's "King Imposter"
1703 - -27] Heavy storm hits England 1000s killed
1703 - Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships
1716 - 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1764 - France bans Jesuits
1778 - Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands [now Hawaii])
1789 - President Washington declared Nov. 26, 1789, to be Thanksgiving Day. It was the first U.S. holiday by presidential proclamation.
1793 - Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1825 - The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.
1832 - 1st streetcar railway in America started public service in New York City from City Hall to 14th Street. The car was pulled by a horse and the fare was 12 1/2 cents.
1835 - HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ
1847 - Alfred de Musset's "Un Caprice," premieres in Paris
1861 - West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virginia
1862 - Alice in Wonderland manuscript is sent as a Christmas present [H]
1864 - Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal/Waynesboro, Georgia
1865 - "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in US
1867 - Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
1885 - 1st meteor photograph
1895 - Hawaiian Sugar Planters Assn forms
1896 - Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg of U Chicago creates football huddle
1898 - SS Portland leaves for Cape Cod, 157 killed
1913 - Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
1914 - Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die
1922 - In Egypt's Valley of the Kings, British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first
souls to enter King Tutankhamen's (King Tut) treasure-laden tomb in more than 3,000 years. - discovered on Nov 4th
1928 - Philip Barry's "Holiday," premieres in NYC
1934 - German theologian Karl Barth surrenders to Nazis
1940 - German Nazis forced the half-million Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live in a ghetto surrounded by an eight-foot concrete wall.
1941 - Japanese carrier force leaves its base to move east toward Pearl Harbor [H]
1941 - Lebanon gains independence from France
1941 - Secretary of State Cordell Hull submitted American proposals to the Japanese peace envoys in Washington.
1942 - President Franklin Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning Dec. 1.
1942 - The motion picture "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York.
1943 - During World War II, the HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying American soldiers, was hit by a German missile off Algeria; 1,138 men were killed, including 1,015 American troops.
1944 - Heinrich Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoriums
1949 - India adopted a constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth.
1950 - China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River launching a counter-offensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the United States and South Korea.
1952 - 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil," premieres in Hollywood
1955 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus
1956 - "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
1961 - Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball
1962 - 1st recording session under name "Beatles"
1965 - France launched its first satellite, sending a 92-pound capsule into orbit.
1967 - Cloudburst over Lisbon kills 450
1969 - Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
1973 - Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally erased part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1975 - Federal jury finds ex-Manson groupie, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, guilty of attempted assassination of President Ford
1983 - Heathrow Airport, London, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
1984 - US and Iraq restored diplomatic relations, ending a 17-year break.
1985 - Random House buys Richard Nixon's memoires for $3,000,000
1986 - President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair.
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
1990 - Japanese business giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. agreed to acquire MCA Inc. for $6.6 billion, the fourth Hollywood studio to be sold to a foreign owner in recent years.
1991 - Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
1991 - The Stars and Stripes were lowered for the last time at Clark Air Base in the Philippines as the United States abandoned one of its oldest and largest overseas installations, which was damaged by a volcano.
1992 - The United States offered to send up to 20,000 U.S. ground troops to civil war-torn Somalia as part of a United Nations force to get relief supplies to the starving populace.
1995 - Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass
1996 - O.J. Simpson finished three days of testimony at a civil trial in Santa Monica, Calif.
1997 - The international price of gold in New York City fell to $298 per ounce, the lowest level in 12 years.
2000 - Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner over Al Gore in the state's presidential balloting by a 537-vote margin.
2000 - Haiti held its presidential election; a former president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, won by a huge margin.
2001 - The Afghanistan prison revolt, which was crushed the third day, claimed the life of a CIA operative, Johnny Michael Spann, 32, a former Marine captain. He was the first U.S. combat casualty of the war. Five other Americans were injured.
Birthdays Today
1607 - John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ
1640 - Carl Rosier, composer
1653 - Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer
1731 - William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task)
1736 - Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France)
1792 - Sarah Moore Grimke (antislavery/women's rights advocate)
1832 - Mary Edwards Walker (physician, women's right leader: only woman to receive Medal of Honor)
1876 - Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment
1894 - Norbert Wiener, US, mathematician/discovered cybernetics
1895 - Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer (Milky Way system)
1905 - George Emlyn Williams, Wales, actor/playwright (portrayed Charles Dickens)
1908 - Lefty (Vernon) Gomez (Baseball Hall of Famer)
1912 - Eric Sevareid, Velva ND, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1912 - Eugene Ionesco (playwright: The Bald Soprano, The Chairs)
1922 - Charles Schulz (Stanley Applebaum) (cartoonist: Peanuts)
1924 - George Segal, NY, sculptor lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver)
1925 - Linda Hunt, Morriston NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)
1933 - Robert Goulet (singer: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Camelot)
1935 - Marian Mercer (singer, actress)
1938 - Ray Brown (singer: group: The Four Freshmen: Charmaine)
1938 - Rich (Richard Caruthers) Little (comedian and impressionist)
1938 - Tina Turner (Annie Bullock) (Grammy Award-winning Pop Singer of the Year [1985]; What's Love Got to Do with It, We Don't Need Another Hero, Theme from Goldeneye; Ike's ex)
1942 - Jan Stenerud (football: NFL career record: 373 field goals kicked [1967-85])
1946 - Art Shell (football: Oakland Raider LT, Super Bowl XI, XV)
1947 - Larry Gura (baseball)
1947 - Richie Hebner (baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates)
1950 - Bernie Harris (basketball)
1951 - La Cicciolina, [Ilona Staller], Budapest Hungary, Italian MP
1952 - Wendy Turnbull (golf)
1955 - Scott Jacoby (actor)
1981 - Jamie Fiske, liver transplant recipient
Famous deaths
1126 - Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated
1240 - Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/Saint, dies
1267 - Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/Saint, dies
1504 - Isabella I, Catholic Queen of Castille & Aragon (1474-1504), patron of Columbus dies at 53
1651 - Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40
1943 - Edward H "Butch" O'Hare, US pilot/lt-comdr (Chicago Airport named for him), dies in battle
1956 - Tommy Dorsey, big bandleader, dies at 51
1959 - Albert William Ketelby, composer, dies at 84
1968 - Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81
1973 - Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed in prison
1986 - Scatman Crothers, singer/actor (Shining, Chico & The Man), dies at 76
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