TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 26
43 BC Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leader Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed
1774 A congress of colonial leaders criticizes British influence in the colonies and affirms their right to “Life, liberty and property.”
1778 British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1789 George Washington proclaims this a National Thanksgiving Day in honor of the new Constitution. This date was later used to set the date for Thanksgiving.
1861 At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West Virginia
1863 The first National Thanksgiving is celebrated.
1865 “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll is published in America
1922 Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, archeologists, open King Tut’s tomb, undisturbed for 3,000 years.
1940 The Nazis began to force Warsaw’s Jews to live in a walled ghetto.
1941 The Japanese fleet departs from the Kuril Islands en route to its attack on Pearl Harbor.
1949 India becomes a sovereign Democratic republic.
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.
1979 Oil deposits equaling OPEC reserves are found in Venezuela.
1983 At London’s Heathrow Airport, almost 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million stolen from Brinks-MAT vault.
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
2000 Republican candidate George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida’s electoral votes, giving him enough electoral votes to defeat Democrat Al Gore Jr. for the US presidency, despite losing the popular vote.
2003 Concorde retired from service Concorde retired from service after 27 years of flight
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.
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