TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SUNDAY, NOV. 26, the 330th day of 2017. There are 35 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1917, the National Hockey League was founded in Montreal, succeeding the National Hockey Association.
In 1789, Americans observed a day of thanksgiving set aside by President George Washington to mark the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
In 1864, English mathematician and writer Charles Dodgson presented a handwritten and illustrated manuscript, “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,” to his 12-year-old friend Alice Pleasance Liddell; the book was later turned into “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
In 1933, a judge in New York ruled the James Joyce book “Ulysses” was not obscene and could be published in the United States.
In 1941, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a note to Japan’s ambassador to the United States, Kichisaburo Nomura, setting forth U.S. demands for “lasting and extensive peace throughout the Pacific area.” The same day, a Japanese naval task force consisting of six aircraft carriers left the Kuril Islands, headed toward Hawaii.
In 1942, the Warner Bros. motion picture “Casablanca,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York.
In 1950, China entered the Korean War, launching a counteroffensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the U.S. and South Korea.
In 1965, France launched its first satellite, the 92-pound Asterix, into orbit.
In 1986, President Ronald Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Senator John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff in the wake of the IranContra affair.
In 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.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Impressionist Rich Little is 79. Singer Tina Turner is 78. Singer Jean Terrell is 73. Actor Scott Jacoby is 61. Actress Jamie Rose is 58. Country singer Linda Davis is 55. Actor Scott Adsit, blues singermusician Bernard Allison and country singer-musician Steve Grisaffe are 52. Actress Kristin Bauer is 51. Actor Peter Facinelli is 44. Actress Maia Campbell and country singer Joe Nichols are 41. Actress Jessica Bowman is 37. Pop singer Natasha Bedingfield is 36. Country singer-musician Mike Gossin (Gloriana Rock) and rock musician Ben Wysocki (The Fray) are 33. Singer Aubrey Collins is 30. Actress-singer-TV personality Rita Ora is 27.