Wednesday, November 26, 2014

History for November 26

History for November 26 - On-This-Day.com
Charles M. Schulz 1922, Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock) 1938, John McVie (Fleetwood Mac) 1945


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. 


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. 


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. 


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. 


1997 - The U.S. and North Korea held high-level discussions at the State Department for the first time. 


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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