Welcome to Today In History for Tuesday, November 26, 2024.

On this day in history ..

• 0399 - St Siricius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 0579 - Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 0944 - Otto I the Great gives away bisdom Utrecht "foreestrecht"
• 1527 - Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I
• 1580 - French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty
• 1598 - Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java
• 1648 - Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westfalen
• 1688 - Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg
• 1688 - French king Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands
• 1688 - King James II escapes back to London
• 1702 - Premiere of Colley Cibber's "King Imposter"
• 1703 - -27] Heavy storm hits England 1000s killed
• 1703 - Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships
• 1716 - 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
• 1741 - French & Beiers army occupies Prague
• 1764 - France bans Jesuit enorde
• 1778 - Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands [now Hawaii])
• 1789 - 1st national Thanksgiving
• 1793 - Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
• 1825 - 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
• 1832 - 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12«› fare)
• 1835 - HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ
• 1841 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan
• 1847 - Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice," premieres in Paris
• 1861 - West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virg
• 1863 - -Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA
• 1864 - Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia
• 1864 - Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal/Waynesboro, Georgia
• 1865 - "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in US
• 1867 - Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
• 1868 - 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th & Folsom
• 1885 - 1st meteor photograph
• 1894 - King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France
• 1895 - Hawaiian Sugar Planters Assn forms
• 1896 - 1st large indoor football game, U of Chic beats U of Mich 7-6
• 1896 - A A Stagg of U Chicago creates football huddle
• 1898 - -27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die
• 1898 - SS Portland leaves for Cape Cod, 157 killed
• 1910 - 2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers, 16-7
• 1913 - Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
• 1914 - Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die
• 1916 - Greece declares war on Germany
• 1922 - English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Toetanchamon's (Tut) tomb
• 1924 - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
• 1925 - Neth & Germany sign trade agreement
• 1927 - 15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6
• 1928 - Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily," premieres in Dresden
• 1928 - Philip Barry's "Holiday," premieres in NYC
• 1932 - Bradman completes 10000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings
• 1933 - Camille Chautemps becomes French premier
• 1934 - German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to nazi
• 1934 - Turkish regiment decrees importing family names
• 1939 - 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
• 1940 - Leidse students strike
• 1940 - Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
• 1941 - Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro
• 1941 - British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs
• 1941 - British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda
• 1941 - Japanese carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor
• 1941 - Lebanon gains independence from France
• 1942 - "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC
• 1942 - Anti fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
• 1944 - 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor
• 1944 - Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoriums
• 1945 - During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)
• 1948 - Belgian govt of Spaak, resigns
• 1949 - 37th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 28-15
• 1949 - India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
• 1950 - China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
• 1952 - 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil," premieres in Hollywood
• 1953 - KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1953 - WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1953 - Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening
• 1954 - Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
• 1955 - "Boy Friend" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 483 performances
• 1955 - 43rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-19
• 1955 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus
• 1955 - Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!"
• 1956 - "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
• 1956 - USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it sinks
• 1957 - WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1960 - 48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6
• 1960 - Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
• 1961 - For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
• 1961 - Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball
• 1962 - 1st recording session under name "Beatles"
• 1962 - Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
• 1962 - Fab Four have their 1st recording session under name Beatles
• 1963 - 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)
• 1963 - Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of Year
• 1963 - Explorer 18 launched
• 1965 - Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year
• 1965 - France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
• 1966 - "Walking Happy" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 perfs
• 1966 - 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
• 1966 - 54th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14
• 1967 - Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
• 1967 - Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450
• 1968 - 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern Cal (RB)
• 1969 - 35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB)
• 1969 - Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
• 1969 - Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
• 1972 - Pete Gogolak scores NY Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown
• 1973 - Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18«-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
• 1974 - Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal)
• 1974 - Catfish Hunter & Charlie Finley meet in arbitration
• 1974 - Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India
• 1975 - Fed jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
• 1975 - France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
• 1975 - Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP
• 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1976 - German DR deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship
• 1976 - Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single
• 1976 - Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK"
• 1976 - Willy Burns elected chairman of Social International
• 1978 - 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
• 1978 - 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "Question of Love"
• 1978 - 66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13
• 1979 - Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
• 1979 - Twins John Castino & Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year
• 1980 - Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
• 1980 - Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP
• 1982 - Clyde King named Yankee manager
• 1982 - Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
• 1982 - Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
• 1983 - Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
• 1984 - After 518 goals & 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires
• 1984 - John W Mercom Jr announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million
• 1984 - Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain
• 1984 - US & Iraq regain diplomatic relations
• 1985 - 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
• 1985 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
• 1985 - Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000
• 1988 - Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev & Jean-Loup Chretien launch
• 1988 - Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
• 1989 - 77th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40
• 1989 - Comores coup under Bob Benard
• 1989 - Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes pres of Uruguay
• 1989 - Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
• 1990 - 1st Billboard Music Awards: Janet Jackson wins
• 1990 - Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend
• 1990 - Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
• 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
• 1990 - Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns
• 1990 - Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigned, ends his reign longest-serving PM
• 1991 - Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
• 1993 - Political campaigners James Carville (49) & Mary Matalin wed
• 1995 - 33rd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2)
• 1995 - Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass
• 1995 - Ireland votes (50.3%) to end 58 year ban on divorce
• 1995 - New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI
• 1996 - Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4
• 1996 - Colbert, Floyd & Irwin win Wendy's Senior 3 Tour Golf Challenge
• 1996 - Couples, Davies, Sheehan & Sorenstam win Wendy's Lady's 3 Tour Golf
• 1996 - Couples, Love & Stewart win Wendy's Men's 3 Tour Golf Challenge
• 1997 - Wash Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5