This Day in History
26 Nov 1527
Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I
26 Nov 1580
French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty
26 Nov 1784
Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established
26 Nov 1793
Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
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FDR establishes modern Thanksgiving holiday
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill officially establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.The tradition of celebrating the holida...
T.E. Lawrence reports on Arab affairs
On November 26 1916 Thomas Edward Lawrence a junior member of the British governments Arab Bureau during World War I publishes a detailed report ana...
Air Force helicopter pilot rescues Special Forces team
While returning to base from another mission Air Force 1st Lt. James P. Fleming and four other Bell UH-1F helicopter pilots get an urgent message from an Army ...
Football trailblazer Art Shell is born
On November 26 1946 Art Shell is born in Charleston South Carolina. Shell was a gifted athlete He made the All-State teams in both football and basketball a...
George W. Bush pardons a turkey
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The Great Diamond Hoax is exposed
The Great Diamond Hoax one of the most notorious mining swindles of the time is exposed with an article in the San FranciscoEvening Bulletin.Fraudulent gold a...
MTV Unplugged premieres
The television series MTV Unplugged featuring stripped-down acoustical performances by a wide range of artists not usually known for such performances makes i...
Alice in Wonderland manuscript is sent as a Christmas present
On this day in 1862 Oxford mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson sends a handwritten manuscript called Alices Adventures Under Ground to 10-year-old A...
Casablanca premieres in NYC
On this day in 1942 Casablanca a World War II-era drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman premieres in New York City it will go on to become one o...
Winter storm paralyzes southern New England
A powerful early winter storm batters the New England coast on this day in 1898 killing at least 450 people in New York Connecticut and Massachusetts.It was T...
Vigilantes in California lynch two suspected murderers
Thousands ofpeoples in San Jose California storm the jail where Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes are being held as suspects in the kidnapping and murder of Bro...
Chinese counterattacks in Korea change nature of war
In some of the fiercest fighting of the Korean War thousands of communist Chinese troops launch massive counterattacks against U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK)...
Mine Run campaign begins
On this day in 1863 around a small valley called Mine Run in Virginia Union General George Meade moves against Confederate General Robert E. Lees Army...
First U.S. “cloverleaf†appears on the cover of the Engineering News-Record
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Peyton Randolph laid to rest at William and Mary
On this day in 1776 the body of Peyton Randolph is returned to Williamsburg Virginia for re-interment at his alma mater the College of William and Mary. Ran...
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