Today in history, Nov 26th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 26th!

1825	The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.
1832	Public streetcar service began in New York City.
1901	The Hope diamond is brought to New York.
1907	The Duma lends support to Czar in St. Petersburg, who claims he has renounced autocracy.
1917	The Bolsheviks offer an armistice between Russian and the Central Powers.
1922	Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, archeologists, open King Tut’s tomb, undisturbed for 3,000 years.
1938	Poland renews nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union to protect against a German invasion.
1939	The Soviet Union charges Finland with artillery attack on border.
1940	The half million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, were forced by the Nazis to live within a walled ghetto.
1941	The Japanese fleet departs from the Kuril Islands en route to its attack on Pearl Harbor.
1942	President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing.
1947	France expels 19 Soviet citizens, charging them with intervention in internal affairs.
1949	India adopted a constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth.
1950	North Korean and Chinese troops halt a UN offensive.
1957	President Eisenhower suffers a minor stroke.
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.
1975	A federal jury found Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford.
1979	Oil deposits equaling OPEC reserves are found in Venezuela.
1982	Yasuhiro Nakasone is elected the 71st Japanese prime minister.
1992	Britain announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income, and would take her children off the public payroll.
2008	Terrorists launched commando-style attacks on two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and a crowded train station in Mumbai, India, killing 166 people.
2009	An investigation ordered by Ireland’s government found that Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin had spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and that most fellow clerics turned a blind eye.
2010	Nineteen-year-old Somali-born Mohamed Osman Mohamud was arrested by federal agents during a sting in Portland, Ore., accused of planning to detonate van of explosives during Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

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