Today in History (Nov. 26)
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:01 AM
This is Today in History for Nov. 26
Those born on Nov. 26 include:
| 1607 | | John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ |
| 1731 | | William Cowper, England, preromantic poet (His Task) |
| 1792 | | Sarah Moore Grimk‚, American antislavery, women's rights advocate |
| 1832 | | Mary Edwards Walker, US, doctor/women's rights leader |
| 1857 | | Ferdinand de Saussure, Switz, linguist (Cours de Laguistique Gener le) |
| 1876 | | Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment |
| 1892 | | Joe Guyon, NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc) |
| 1894 | | Norbert Wiener, US, mathematician/discovered cybernetics |
| 19-- | | Elizabeth Savage, Pittsburgh Pa, actress (Gwyneth-Loving) |
| 1902 | | Alberto Morin, PR, actor (Armando-Dallas) |
| 1905 | | Emlyn Williams, Wales, actor/playwright (David Copperfield) |
| 1907 | | Frances Dee, US actress (Of Human Bondage) |
| 1910 | | Cyril Cusack, South Africa, actress (Day of the Jackal) |
| 1912 | | Eric Sevareid, Velva ND, newscaster (CBS Weekend News) |
| 1912 | | EugŠne Ionesco, France, dramatist (Rhinoceros) |
| 1913 | | Foy Draper, US, relay runner (Olympic-gold-1936) |
| 1915 | | Earl Wild, Pitts Pa, pianist (Caesar's Hour, NBC Symph 1942) |
| 1922 | | Adele Jergens, Brooklyn NY, actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man) |
| 1922 | | Charles M Schulz, cartoonist (Peanuts) |
| 1924 | | George Segal, NY, sculptor lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver) |
| 1925 | | Eugene Istomin, NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award-1943) |
| 1925 | | Linda Hunt, Morriston NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado) |
| 1927 | | John Carter, Center Ridge Ark, actor (Max-Falcon Crest) |
| 1929 | | Betta St John, Hawthorne Calif, actress (Corridors of Blood) |
| 1931 | | Adolfo P‚rez Esquivel, Buenos Argentina, (1980 Nobel Peace Prize) |
| 1931 | | Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1952) |
| 1933 | | Robert Goulet, Lawrence Mass, singer/actor (Camelot, Naked Gun 2«) |
| 1934 | | Ludmila Shevtsova, USSR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1960) |
| 1935 | | Marian Mercer, Akron Ohio, actress/singer (Dean Martin Show) |
| 1937 | | Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1) |
| 1937 | | L‚o Lacroix, France, skier (Olympic-silver-1964) |
| 1938 | | Rich Little, Ottawa Canada, impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop) |
| 1938 | | Tina Turner, [Anna Mae Bullock], Brownsville Tx, singer (Proud Mary) |
| 1942 | | Olivia Cole, Memphis Tenn, actress (Roots, Szysznyk) |
| 1943 | | Jan Stenerud, Norway, NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs) |
| 1945 | | John McVie, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk) |
| 1945 | | Mikhail Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold/4 silver/bronze-1968) |
| 1948 | | Galina Prozumenschikova, USSR, 200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1964) |
| 1952 | | Wendy Turnbell, Australia, tennis player (1979,82 US Opens Double) |
| 1959 | | Jamie Rose, NYC, actress (Susan Birch-St Elsewhere, Falcon Crest) |
| 1961 | | Marcy Walker, actress (All My Children, Eden-Santa Barbara) |
| 1963 | | Allyson Rice-Taylor, actress (Connor-As the World Turns) |
| 1981 | | Jamie Fiske, liver transplant recipient |
Those who passed away on Nov. 26 include:
| 1883 | | Sojourner Truth, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, dies |
| 1939 | | James Naismith, Basketball inventor, dies |
| 1970 | | B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago |
| 1973 | | Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed |
| 1980 | | Rachael Roberts, actress, dies at age 53 |
| 1982 | | Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at 73 |
| 1982 | | Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe), dies at 73 |
| 1985 | | Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of the Bride), dies at 87 |
| 1986 | | Scatman Crothers, actor (Louie-Chico & the Man), dies at 76 |
Holidays on Nov. 26
| | | Lebanon Independence Day (1941) |
| | | Mass John F Kennedy Day (1963) |
| | | Bern Switzerland Onion Market Day-autumn festival |
| | | US Thanksgiving |
Religious observances on Nov. 26
| | | Bah 'ˇ Day of the Covenant |
| | | Christian Commemoration of St Berchmans |
| | | Protestant Bible Sunday |
| | | RC Solemnity of Christ the King |
| 1267 | | RC Commemoration of St Sylvester, abbot |
| 1751 | | RC Commemoration of St Leonard of Port Maurice |
This is Today in History for Nov. 26
| 399 | | St Siricius ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 579 | | Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 1703 | | Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships |
| 1716 | | 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston) |
| 1778 | | Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands) |
| 1789 | | 1st national thanksgiving |
| 1793 | | Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France |
| 1825 | | 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY)) |
| 1832 | | 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12« fare) |
| 1841 | | 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan |
| 1861 | | At Wheeling, a convention adopts a consitution for new state W Va |
| 1865 | | Alice in Wonderland published |
| 1868 | | 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th & Folsom |
| 1885 | | 1st meteor photograph |
| 1895 | | Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed |
| 1896 | | 1st large indoor football game, U of Chic beats U of Mich 7-6 |
| 1896 | | A.A. Stagg of U Chicago creates the football huddle |
| 1916 | | K Gyllenberg discovers asteroid #846 Lipperta |
| 1924 | | Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed |
| 1937 | | G Kulin discovers asteroid #1441 Bolyai |
| 1940 | | Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto |
| 1941 | | Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro |
| 1941 | | Lebanon gains independence from France |
| 1945 | | During snow storm, school bus crashes, killing 15 (Washington) |
| 1949 | | India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic |
| 1950 | | China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River |
| 1951 | | L E Cunningham discovers asteroid #2211 |
| 1962 | | 1st recording session under the name "Beatles" |
| 1965 | | France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix) |
| 1966 | | 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France |
| 1969 | | Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall) |
| 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 |
| 1973 | | accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape |
| 1974 | | Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal) |
| 1975 | | Fed jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination |
| 1975 | | Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #2260 Neoptolemus, |
| 1975 | | #2336 Xinjiang, #2617 Jiangxi & #3421 |
| 1976 | | Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single |
| 1978 | | 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY |
| 1978 | | Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3011 & #3297 |
| 1980 | | Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building |
| 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 the |
| 1982 | | Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch |
| 1983 | | Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million |
| 1984 | | John W Mercom Jr announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million |
| 1985 | | 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched |
| 1988 | | Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Jean-Loup Chretien launch |
| 1988 | | Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km) |
| 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 |
| 1991 | | Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students |
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