TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: NOVEMBER 26
43 BC Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leader Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed
1688 Louis XIV declares war on the Netherlands.
1716 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1789 1st national Thanksgiving in America
1861 At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West Virginia
1865 “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll is published in America
1917 The National Hockey League (NHL) was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.
1922 Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, archeologists, open King Tut’s tomb, undisturbed for 3,000 years.
1941 The Japanese fleet departs from the Kuril Islands en route to its attack on Pearl Harbor.
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.
1973 Nixon’s personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1975 Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme is found guilty of an attempt on President Gerald Ford’s life.
1979 Oil deposits equaling OPEC reserves are found in Venezuela
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.
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.
1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
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.
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 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
2018 General Motors announces it will close five factories in North America, cutting 14,000 jobs
2020 Turkey gives life sentences to 337 military officers and others involved in 2016 coup
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
