Monday, November 25, 2024

November 26th: This Day in History

 






Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!




On this day in 43 BCE, the Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony was formed. On this day in 1793 during the French Revolution, the Republican calendar replaced the Gregorian calendar in France. In 1835 on this day, the HMS Beagle (with Charles Darwin aboard) left Tahiti, bound for New Zealand. In 1922 on this day, archaeologists enter the tomb of King Tut, forever changing our collective understanding of ancient Egypt. On this day in 1941, American President Franklin D Roosevelt established the fourth Thursday of every November as Thanksgiving Day. Also on this day in 1941, a Japanese task force left for Pearl Harbor. In 1944 on this day, Himmler ordered the destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoriums. In 1950 on this day during the Korean War, Chinese counterattacks in Korea change the nature of that war.


Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:

On this day in 43 BCE, the Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony was 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


  


This picture was taken, and recently cropped, by me. Taken from the Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band show in Worcester, Massachusetts, June 11, 2016




This picture was taken, and recently cropped, by me for the Ringo Starr In Conversation at Strands Bookstore - October 26, 2015




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.


The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:

http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php

http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/nov26.htm

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory

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