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 See a larger version of this front page. | On Nov. 26, 1942, President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning December 1.
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 | On November 26, 1904, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Liberal Party politics in Great Britain. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) | ||
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| 1789 | A day of thanksgiving was set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. |
| 1825 | The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. |
| 1832 | Public streetcar service began in New York City. |
| 1940 | The half million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, were forced by the Nazis to live within a walled ghetto. |
| 1942 | ''Casablanca,'' starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York. |
| 1943 | The HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying U.S. soldiers, was hit by a German missile off Algeria; 1,138 men were killed, including 1,015 American troops. |
| 1949 | India adopted a constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth. |
| 1950 | China entered the Korean conflict, launching a counter-offensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the United States and South Korea. |
| 1965 | France launched its first satellite, sending a 92-pound capsule into orbit. |
| 1973 | President Richard Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she'd accidentally caused part of the 18 1/2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape. |
| 1975 | A federal jury in Sacramento, Calif., found Lynette ''Squeaky'' Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford. |
| 1986 | President Ronald Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair. |
| 1992 | The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income, and would take her children off the public payroll. |
| 1998 | Tony Blair gave the first speech ever by a British prime minister to an Irish parliament. |
| 2000 | Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified Republican George W. Bush the winner over Democrat Al Gore in the state's presidential balloting by 537 votes. |
| 2002 | WorldCom and the government settled a civil lawsuit over the company's $9 billion accounting scandal. |
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| Art Shell turns 60 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez Oakland Raiders head coach Art Shell turns 60
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Historic Birthdays |
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| Charles Schulz | |
11/26/1922 - 2/12/2000 American cartoonist and creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip (Go to obit.) |
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| 68 |
William Cowper 11/26/1731 - 4/25/1800 English poet |
| 81 |
Sarah Grimke 11/26/1792 - 12/23/1873 American abolitionist and early feminist |
| 96 |
Katharine Drexel 11/26/1858 - 3/3/1955 American founder of Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament |
| 73 |
Willis H. Carrier 11/26/1876 - 10/7/1950 American inventor and industrialist |
| 84 |
Heinrich Bruning 11/26/1885 - 3/30/1970 German statesman, chancellor and foreign minister |
| 69 |
Norbert Wiener 11/26/1894 - 3/18/1964 American mathematician |
| 36 |
Bruno Hauptmann 11/26/1899 - 4/3/1936 Kidnapper of the son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| 84 |
Eugene Ionesco 11/26/1909 - 3/28/1994 Romanian-born French dramatist |
| 79 |
Eric Sevareid 11/26/1912 - 7/9/1992 American journalist |
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