#Section: Not a single day without an event #November 26 Holidays Day of the Covenant (Baháí Faith) Independence Day (Mongolia), celebrates the independence of #Mongolia from China on July 11, 1921. Constitution Day (India). A day to honour the Constitution of India Events 1789 - A day of thanksgiving was set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. 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. 1940 - The half million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, were forced by the Nazis to live within a walled ghetto. 1942 - Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York. 1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing. 1949 - #India adopted a constitution as a republic within the #British Commonwealth. 1973 - #President Richard Nixons personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that shed 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. 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. 2000 - #Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified Republican George W. #Bush the winner over #Democrat Al #Gore in the states presidential balloting by 537 votes. 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 Irelands 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. Historic Birthdays William Cowper 11/26/1731 - 4/25/1800 (#English poet) Sarah Grimke 11/26/1792 - 12/23/1873 (American abolitionist and early feminist) Katharine #Drexel 11/26/1858 - 3/3/1955 (American founder of Sisters of the #Blessed #Sacrament) Willis H. Carrier 11/26/1876 - 10/7/1950 (American inventor and industrialist) Heinrich Bruning 11/26/1885 - 3/30/1970 (#German statesman, chancellor and foreign minister) Norbert #Wiener 11/26/1894 - 3/18/1964 (#American mathematician) Bruno Hauptmann 11/26/1899 - 4/3/1936 (Kidnapper of the son of #Charles and #Anne #Morrow Lindbergh) #Eugene #Ionesco 11/26/1909 - 3/28/1994 (Romanian-born French dramatist) #Eric #Sevareid 11/26/1912 - 7/9/1992 (American journalist)
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