History for November 26 - On-This-Day.com:
Charles M. Schulz 1922, Robert Goulet 1933, Rich Little 1938
Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock) 1938, John McVie (Fleetwood Mac) 1945, Art Shell 1946
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.
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.
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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