TODAY IN HISTORY

On Nov. 26, 1864, English mathematician and writer Charles Dodgson presented a handwritten and illustrated manuscript, “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,” to his 12-yearold friend Alice Pleasance

Liddell; the book was later turned into “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” published under Dodgson’s pen name, Lewis Carroll.

former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan.

In 1883,

the National Hockey League was founded in Montreal,

In 1917,

succeeding the National Hockey Association.

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

In 2000, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner over Al Gore in the state’s presidential balloting by a 537-vote margin.