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Nov 26, 1941: FDR establishes modern Thanksgiving holiday
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill officially establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
The tradition of celebrating the holiday on Thursday dates back to the early history of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, when post-harvest holidays were celebrated on the weekday regularly set aside as "Lecture Day," a midweek church meeting where topical sermons were presented. A famous Thanksgiving observance occurred in the autumn of 1621, when Plymouth governor William Bradford invited local Indians to join the Pilgrims in a three-day festival held in gratitude for the bounty of the season.
Thanksgiving became an annual custom throughout New England in the 17th century, and in 1777 the Continental Congress declared the first national American Thanksgiving following the Patriot victory at Saratoga. In 1789, President George Washington became the first president to proclaim a Thanksgiving holiday, when, at the request of Congress, he proclaimed November 26, a Tuesday, as a day of national thanksgiving for the U.S. Constitution. However, it was not until 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving to fall on the last Thursday of November, that the modern holiday was celebrated nationally.
With a few deviations, Lincoln's precedent was followed annually by every subsequent president--until 1939. In 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt departed from tradition by declaring November 23, the next to last Thursday that year, as Thanksgiving Day. Considerable controversy surrounded this deviation, and some Americans refused to honor Roosevelt's declaration. For the next two years, Roosevelt repeated the unpopular proclamation, but on November 26, 1941, he admitted his mistake and signed a bill into law officially making the fourth Thursday in November the national holiday of Thanksgiving Day.
Nov 26, 1941: Japanese task force leaves for Pearl Harbor
On this day in 1941, Adm. Chuichi Nagumo leads the Japanese First Air Fleet, an aircraft carrier strike force, toward Pearl Harbor, with the understanding that should "negotiations with the United States reach a successful conclusion, the task force will immediately put about and return to the homeland."
Negotiations had been ongoing for months. Japan wanted an end to U.S. economic sanctions. The Americans wanted Japan out of China and Southeast Asia-and to repudiate the Tripartite "Axis" Pact with Germany and Italy as conditions to be met before those sanctions could be lifted. Neither side was budging. President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull were anticipating a Japanese strike as retaliation—they just didn't know where. The Philippines, Wake Island, Midway—all were possibilities. American intelligence reports had sighted the Japanese fleet movement out from Formosa (Taiwan), apparently headed for Indochina. As a result of this "bad faith" action, President Roosevelt ordered that a conciliatory gesture of resuming monthly oil supplies for Japanese civilian needs canceled. Hull also rejected Tokyo's "Plan B," a temporary relaxation of the crisis, and of sanctions, but without any concessions on Japan's part. Prime Minister Tojo considered this an ultimatum, and more or less gave up on diplomatic channels as the means of resolving the impasse.
Nagumo had no experience with naval aviation, having never commanded a fleet of aircraft carriers in his life. This role was a reward for a lifetime of faithful service. Nagumo, while a man of action, did not like taking unnecessary risks—which he considered an attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor to be. But Chief of Staff Rear Adm. Isoruku Yamamoto thought differently; while also opposing war with the United States, he believed the only hope for a Japanese victory was a swift surprise attack, via carrier warfare, against the U.S. fleet. And as far as the Roosevelt War Department was concerned, if war was inevitable, it desired "that Japan commit the first overt act."
Nov 26, 1922: Archaeologists enter tomb of King Tut
In Egypt's Valley of the Kings, British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first souls to enter King Tutankhamen's tomb in more than 3,000 years. Tutankhamen's sealed burial chambers were miraculously intact, and inside was a collection of several thousand priceless objects, including a gold coffin containing the mummy of the teenage king.
When Carter first arrived in Egypt, in 1891, most of the ancient Egyptian tombs had been discovered, and the majority of these had been hopelessly plundered by tomb raiders over the millennia. However, Carter was a brilliant excavator, and in the first years of the 20th century he discovered the tombs of Queen Hatshepsut and King Thutmose IV. Around 1907, he became associated with the Earl of Carnarvon, a collector of antiquities who commissioned Carter to supervise excavations in the Valley of the Kings. By 1913, most experts felt there was nothing in the Valley left to be uncovered. Carter, however, persisted in his efforts, convinced that the tomb of the little-known King Tutankhamen might still be found.
King Tutankhamen was enthroned in 1333 B.C. when he was still a child. He died a decade later at the age of 18 and thus made only a faint impression on the history of ancient Egypt. In the 13th century B.C., Tutankhamen and the other "Amarna" kings were publicly condemned, and most records of them were destroyed--including the location of Tutankhamen's tomb. A century later, in the 12th century B.C., workers building a tomb for Ramses VI inadvertently covered Tutankhamen's tomb with a deep layer of chips, further protecting it from future discovery.
After World War I, Carter began an intensive search for Tutankhamen's tomb and on November 4, 1922, discovered a step leading to its entrance. Lord Carnarvon rushed to Egypt, and on November 23 they broke through a mud-brick door, revealing the passageway that led to Tutankhamen's tomb. There was evidence that robbers had entered the structure at some point, and the archaeologists feared they had discovered yet another pillaged tomb. However, on November 26 they broke through another door, and Carter leaned in with a candle to take a look. Behind him, Lord Carnarvon asked, "Can you see anything?" Carter replied, "Yes, wonderful things."
It was the antechamber of Tutankhamen's tomb, and it was gloriously untouched. The dusty floor still showed the footprints of the tomb builders who left the room more than 3,000 years before. Apparently, the robbers who had broken into Tutankhamen's tomb had done so soon after it was completed and were caught before moving into the interior chambers and causing serious damage.
Thus began a monumental excavation process in which Carter carefully explored the four-room tomb over several years, uncovering an incredible collection of several thousand objects. In addition to numerous pieces of jewelry and gold, there was statuary, furniture, clothes, a chariot, weapons, and numerous other objects that shed a brilliant light on the culture and history of ancient Egypt. The most splendid find was a stone sarcophagus containing three coffins nested within each other. Inside the final coffin, made out of solid gold, was the mummified body of the boy-king Tutankhamen, preserved for 3,200 years. Most of these treasures are now housed in the Cairo Museum.
Nov 26, 1950: Chinese counterattacks in Korea change nature of war
In some of the fiercest fighting of the Korean War, thousands of communist Chinese troops launch massive counterattacks against U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK) troops, driving the Allied forces before them and putting an end to any thoughts for a quick or conclusive U.S. victory. When the counterattacks had been stemmed, U.S. and ROK forces had been driven from North Korea and the war settled into a grinding and frustrating stalemate for the next two-and-a-half years.
In the weeks prior to the Chinese attacks, ROK and U.S. forces, under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, had succeeded in driving deeper into North Korea and were nearing the border with the People's Republic of China (PRC). The PRC issued warnings that the Allied forces should keep their distance, and beginning in October 1950 troops from the Chinese People's Liberation Army began to cross the border to assist their North Korean ally. Their numbers grew to around 300,000 by early November. Some bloody encounters occurred between the Chinese and ROK and U.S. forces, but the Chinese troops suddenly broke off offensive operations on November 6. This spurred MacArthur, who had always discounted the military effectiveness of the Chinese troops, to propose a massive new offensive by U.S. and ROK forces. Alternately referred to as the "End the War" or "Home by Christmas" offensive, the attack began on November 24. The offensive almost immediately encountered heavy resistance, and by November 26 the Chinese were launching destructive counterattacks along a 25-mile front. By December, U.S. and ROK forces had been pushed out of North Korea. Eventually, U.S. and ROK forces stopped the Chinese troops and the war settled into a military stalemate.
The massive Chinese attack brought an end to any thoughts that U.S. boys would be "home by Christmas." It also raised the specter of the war expanding beyond the borders of the Korean peninsula, something U.S. policymakers-leery of becoming entangled in a land war in Asia that might escalate into a nuclear confrontation with the Soviets-were anxious to avoid.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus
("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius
Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.
579 - Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
783 - Asturian queen Adosinda was put in the monastery of San Juan de
Pravia, where she lived out the rest of her life, to prevent her kin from
retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
1476 - Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen
the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the
third time.
1527 - Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I
1580 - French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty
1598 - Jacob of Neck's merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java
1648 - Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westphalia
1688 - Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg
1688 - French King Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands
1688 - King James II escapes back to London
1702 - Premiere of Colley Cibber's "King Imposter"
1703 - Great storm hits Southern England thousands killed, Royal Navy
losses 13 ships and around 1,500 seamen
1716 - 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1741 - French & Beiers army occupies Prague
1764 - France bans Jesuit enorde
1778 - Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1784 - Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
1789 - 1st national Thanksgiving in USA
The Sun King of France Louis XIVThe Sun King of France Louis XIV 1793 -
Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1805 - Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct,
carrying the Llangollen canal 126 feet above the River Dee
1825 - 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1832 - 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12 cent
fare)
1835 - HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ
1841 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan
1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1847 - Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice" premieres in Paris
1859 - Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two
Cities" is published in literary periodical All the Year Round
1861 - West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with
Virginia
1863 - -Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA
1864 - Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia
1864 - Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal/Waynesboro, Georgia
1865 - "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in USA
1865 - Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined
Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
Author and Mathematician Lewis CarrollAuthor and Mathematician Lewis
Carroll 1867 - Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
1868 - 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th &
Folsom
1885 - 1st meteor photograph
1894 - King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France
1895 - Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms
1896 - 1st large indoor football game, U of Chic beats U of Mich 7-6
1896 - A A Stagg of U Chicago creates American football huddle
1898 - -27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die
1898 - SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod,
shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed
1909 - Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8
Jewish young men.
1910 - 2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers,
16-7
1913 - Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
1913 - Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
1914 - Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788
die
1916 - Greece declares war on Germany
1918 - The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people",
declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
Archaeologist and Discoverer of Tutankhamun Howard CarterArchaeologist
and Discoverer of Tutankhamun Howard Carter 1922 - English archaeologist Howard
Carter opens Toetanchamon's (Tut) tomb
1924 - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1925 - Netherlands & Germany sign trade agreement
1927 - 15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers,
9-6
1928 - Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily" premieres in Dresden
1928 - Philip Barry's "Holiday" premieres in NYC
1932 - Bradman completes 10,000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings
1933 - Camille Chautemps becomes French premier
1934 - German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to Nazis
1934 - Turkish regiment decrees importing family names
1939 - 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
1940 - Leidse students strike
1940 - Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
1941 - Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro
1941 - British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs
1941 - British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda
1941 - Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward
Pearl Harbor
1941 - Lebanon gains independence from France
1942 - "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC
1942 - Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
1944 - 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor
1944 - Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau
crematoriums
1945 - During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)
1948 - Belgian government of Spaak resigns
1949 - 37th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders,
28-15
1949 - India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1950 - China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
1952 - 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil" premieres in Hollywood
1953 - KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins
broadcasting
1953 - WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st
awakening
1954 - Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
1955 - "Boy Friend" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 483
performances
1955 - 43rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes,
34-19
1955 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus
Country Singer Johnny CashCountry Singer Johnny Cash 1955 - Johnny Cash
debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!"
1956 - "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
1956 - USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold
medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it sinks
1957 - WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 - 48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos,
16-6
1960 - Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
1961 - For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4
interceptions
1961 - Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the
spitball
1962 - 1st recording session under name "Beatles"
1962 - Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
1962 - Fab Four have their 1st recording session under name Beatles
1963 - 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)
1963 - Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of Year
1963 - Explorer 18 launched
1965 - Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year
1965 - France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
1966 - "Walking Happy" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for
161 perfs
1966 - 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1966 - 54th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14
1967 - Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
1967 - Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450
1968 - 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern Cal (RB)
1969 - 35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB)
1969 - Cream's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
1969 - Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President
Nixon
1970 - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a
minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record.
1972 - Pete Gogolak scores NY Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown
1973 - Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she
accidentally caused part of 18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1974 - Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal)
1974 - Catfish Hunter & Charlie Finley meet in arbitration
1974 - Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India
1975 - Fed jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
1975 - France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1975 - Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 - German DR deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship
1976 - Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single
1976 - Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The
UK"
1976 - Willy Brandt elected chairman of Social International
1977 - 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar
Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at
5:12 PM.
1978 - 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
1978 - 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "Question of Love"
1978 - 66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes,
20-13
1979 - Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
1979 - Twins John Castino & Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of
Year
1980 - Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly
Building
1980 - Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP
1982 - Clyde King named Yankee manager
1982 - Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1982 - Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry
Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
1983 - Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
1984 - After 518 goals & 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy LaFleur
retires
1984 - John W Mercom Jr announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75
million
1984 - Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain
1984 - US & Iraq regain diplomatic relations
1985 - 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
1985 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
37th US President Richard Nixon37th US President Richard Nixon 1985 -
Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000
1988 - Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev & Jean-Loup Chretien launch
1988 - Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M
km)
1989 - 77th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40
1989 - Comores coup under Bob Benard
1989 - Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes pres of Uruguay
1989 - Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
1990 - 1st Billboard Music Awards: Janet Jackson & Phil Collins win
1990 - Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same
weekend
1990 - Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
1990 - Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns
1991 - Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
1993 - Political campaigners James Carville (49) & Mary Matalin wed
1995 - 33rd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2)
Hall of Fame NFL Quarterback Dan MarinoHall of Fame NFL Quarterback Dan
Marino 1995 - Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass
1995 - New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI
1996 - Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4
1996 - Colbert, Floyd & Irwin win Wendy's Senior 3 Tour Golf
Challenge
1996 - Couples, Davies, Sheehan & Sorenstam win Wendy's Lady's 3 Tour
Golf
1996 - Couples, Love & Stewart win Wendy's Men's 3 Tour Golf
Challenge
1997 - Wash Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5
1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
2003 - Concorde makes its last ever flight over Bristol, England.
2004 - Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and
seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
2008 - Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by
Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai,
India.
2011 - 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a
Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and
wounding 13 others.
2012 - 10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian
government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground
2012 - The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32
Billion
1716 - The first lion to be exhibited in America went on display in Boston, MA. 1731 - English poet William Cowper was born. He is best known for "The Poplar Trees" and "The Task." 1789 - U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. 1825 - The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, NY. 1832 - Public streetcar service began in New York City. 1867 - J.B. Sutherland patented the refrigerated railroad car. 1917 - The National Hockey League (NHL) was officially formed in Montreal, Canada. 1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter peered into the tomb of King Tutankhamen. 1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto. 1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939 Roosevelt had signed a bill that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November. 1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing to begin December 1. 1942 - The motion picture "Casablanca" had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York City. 1943 - The HMS Rohna became the first ship to be sunk by a guided missile. The German missile attack led to the death of 1,015 U.S. troops. 1949 - India's Constituent Assembly adopted the country's constitution The country became republic within the British Commonwealth two months later. 1950 - China entered the Korean conflict forcing UN forces to retreat. 1958 - Maurice Richard (Montreal Canadiens) scored his 600th NHL career goal. 1965 - France became the third country to enter space when it launched its first satellite the Diamant-A. 1973 - Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she was responsible for the 18-1/2 minute gap in a key Watergate tape. Woods was U.S. President Nixon's personal secretary. 1975 - Lynette"Squeaky" Fromme was found guilty by a federal jury in Sacramento, CA, for trying to assassinate U.S. President Ford on September 5. 1979 - The International Olympic Committee voted to re-admit China after a 21-year absence. 1983 - A Brinks Mat Ltd. vault at London's Heathrow Airport was robbed by gunmen. The men made off with 6,800 gold bars worth nearly $40 million. Only a fraction of the gold has ever been recovered and only two men were convicted in the heist. 1985 - The rights to Richard Nixon's autobiography were acquired by Random House for $3,000,000. 1986 - U.S. President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff after the Iran-Contra affair. 1988 - The U.S. denied an entry visa to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who was seeking permission to travel to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly. 1990 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz at the Kremlin to demand that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait. 1990 - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. agreed to acquire MCA Inc. for $6.6 billion. 1992 - The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income. She also took her children off the public payroll. 1995 - Two men set fire to a subway token booth in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The clerk inside was fatally burned. 1997 - The U.S. and North Korea held high-level discussions at the State Department for the first time. 1998 - British Prime Minister Toney Blair made a speech to the Irish Parliament. It was a first time event for a British Prime Minister. 1998 - Hulk Hogan announced that he was retiring from pro wrestling and would run for president in 2000. 2003 - The U.N. atomic agency adopted a resolution that censured Iran for past nuclear cover-ups and warning that it would be policed to put to rest suspicions that the country had a weapons agenda.
1789 The first national Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. was proclaimed by President George Washington. 1922 Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first to enter the tomb of King Tutankhamen (Tut) since it was sealed in 1323 B.C. 1940 The Nazis began to force Warsaw's Jews to live in a walled ghetto. 1950 China entered the Korean War. 1975 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, was found guilty of trying to assassinate President Ford. 1998 Tony Blair became the first British prime minister to speak to the Irish parliament. 2000 Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner in Florida's presidential balloting.
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http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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