DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Friday, Nov. 26, the 330th day of 2021. There are 35 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1825: The first college social fraternity, the Kappa Alpha Society, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
1864: English mathematician and writer Charles Dodgson presented a handwritten and illustrated manuscript, “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,” to 12-year-old Alice Pleasance Liddell; the book was later turned into “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” published under Dodgson’s pen name, Lewis Carroll.
1883: Former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1917: The National Hockey League was founded in Montreal, succeeding the National Hockey Association.
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.
1943: During World War II, the HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying American soldiers, was hit by a German missile off Algeria; 1,138 men were killed.
1950: China entered the Korean War, launching a counteroffensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the U.S. and South Korea.
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.
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.
1990: Japanese business giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. agreed to acquire MCA Corp., owner of Universal Studios, for $6.6 billion.
2000: Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner over Al Gore in the state’s presidential balloting by a 537vote margin.
2008: Teams of heavily armed Pakistani gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in Mumbai, India, leaving at least 166 people dead in a rampage lasting some 60 hours.
Impressionist Rich Little is 83. Singer Tina Turner is 82. Singer Jean Terrell of The Supremes is 77. Bassist John Mcvie of Fleetwood Mac is 76. Country singer Linda Davis is 59. Hip-hop artist
DJ Khaled is 46. Actor
Maia Campbell (“In the House”) is 45. Country singer Joe Nichols is 45. Musicians Randy and Anthony Armstrong of Red are 43. Actor Jessica Bowman (“Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman”) is 41. Singer Natasha Bedingfield is 40. Actor
Jessica Camacho (“Taken”) is 39. Singer-guitarist Mike Gossin of Gloriana is 37. Drummer Ben Wysocki of The Fray is 37. Singer Lil Fizz of B2K is 36. Singer
Aubrey Collins of Trick Pony is 34. Singer-actor Rita Ora is 31. Actor Aubrey Peeples (“Nashville”) is 28.