TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Saturday, Nov. 26, the 330th day of 2022. There are 35 days left in the year.

ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY

On Nov. 26, 1950, China entered the Korean War, launching a counteroffensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the US and South Korea.

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,” published under Dodgson’s pen name, Lewis Carroll.

1883 — Former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan.

1942 — President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning Dec. 1.

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.

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.

2020 — Americans marked the Thanksgiving holiday amid the Coronavirus pandemic, with many celebrations canceled or reduced; Zoom and FaceTime calls connected some families with those who didn’t want to travel.

Five years ago — Congressman John Conyers of Michigan gave up his leadership position as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, while denying allegations that he had sexually harassed female staff members.

One year ago — A World Health Organization panel classified a new COVID-19 variant as a highly transmissible virus of concern, and named it “Omicron” under its Greek-letter system.