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What happened in history on this day: November 26?
On November 26 in ...
- 1789 - First national thanksgiving.
- 1825 - First college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, New York)).
- 1861 - At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West Virginia.
- 1862 - The US government purchases the site for the future Denver Mint for $25,000.
- 1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt signs a bill officially establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
- 1945 - During snow storm, school bus crashes, killing 15 (Washington).
- 1963 - US Treasury announces $1 Federal Reserve notes will replace $1 silver certificates.
- 1973 - Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed to death.
- 1973 - US President Richard Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.
- 1975 - US Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford.
- 1978 - Ten die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, New York.
- 1985 - 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched.
- 1985 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan sells the rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.
- 1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces that former Senator John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft will serve as members of the Special Review Board looking into the Iran-Contra arms scandal (they became known as the Tower Commission). Reagan denies involvement in the scandal.
- 1990 - Matsushita Electric purchases MCA for US$6.6 billion, the largest ever Japanese purchase of a US company.
- 2004 - An oil tanker sppills as much as 1.8 million litres of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, USA.
- 2006 - US Judge James Robertson orders the US Treasury to change the dollar bill.
- 2008 - Death of the oldest living person, Edna Parker of Shelbyville, Indiana, at age 115.
- 2011 - The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, the most elaborate Martian exploration vehicle to date, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. It is slated to land on Mars on August 5, 2012.
Births on November 26
- 1912 - Birth of Eric Sevareid in Velva, North Dakota, USA; CBS newsman and commentator for 38 years (CBS Weekend News).
- 1915 - Birth of Earl Wild in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; pianist (Caesar's Hour, NBC Symphony 1942).
- 1922 - Birth of Adele Jergens in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man).
- 1924 - Birth of George Segal in New York, USA; sculptor lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver).
- 1925 - Birth of Eugene Istomin in New York City, New York, USA; pianist (Leventritt Award-1943).
- 1925 - Birth of Linda Hunt in Morriston, New Jersey, USA; actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado).
- 1927 - Birth of John Carter in Center Ridge, Arkansas, USA; actor (Max - Falcon Crest).
- 1929 - Birth of Betta Saint John in Hawthorne, California, USA; actress (Corridors of Blood).
- 1933 - Birth of Robert Goulet AKA Stanley Applebaum in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA; singer (Cross Canada Hit Parade TV show, Grammy award 1962, "My Love Forgive Me" album (1964)), actor (Camelot, Naked Gun 2 1/2).
- 1935 - Birth of Marian Mercer in Akron, Ohio, USA; actress/singer (Dean Martin Show, St. Elsewhere, It's a Living, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman).
- 1938 - Birth of Tina Turner AKA Anna Mae Bullock in Brownsville, Texas, USA; singer ("Proud Mary").
- 1942 - Birth of Olivia Cole in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; actress (Roots, Szysznyk).
- 1959 - Birth of Jamie Rose in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Susan Birch - St Elsewhere, Falcon Crest).
Deaths on November 26
- 1883 - Sojourner Truth, US abolitionist, women's rights advocate, dies.
- 1973 - Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed to death.
- 1982 - Robert Coote, actor (Timmy - Rogues, Theodore - Nero Wolfe), dies of a heart attack in New York City at age 73.
- 2003 - Death of Soulja Slim at age 25, shot to death in front of his home in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; rapper (Juvenile - "Slow Motion").
- 2005 - Death of Irving Ludwig, president of Buena Vista Distribution.
- 2008 - Death of the oldest living person, Edna Parker of Shelbyville, Indiana, at age 115.
- 2021 - Death of Stephen Sondheim at age 91; American musical theatre lyricist and composer (Gypsy (1959), Company (1970), Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962)).
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