Updated November 25, 2011, 1:28 PM
On Nov. 26, 1942, President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning December 1.
On Nov. 26, 1922, Charles Schulz, American cartoonist and creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip, was born. Following his death on Feb. 12, 2000, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
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| 1789 | A day of thanksgiving was set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. |
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| 1825 | The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. |
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| 1832 | Public streetcar service began in New York City. |
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| 1940 | The half million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, were forced by the Nazis to live within a walled ghetto. |
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| 1942 | "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York. |
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| 1942 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing. |
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| 1949 | India adopted a constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth. |
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| 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. |
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| 1975 | A federal jury found Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford. |
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| 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. |
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| 2000 | Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified Republican George W. Bush the winner over Democrat Al Gore in the state's presidential balloting by 537 votes. |
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| 2008 | Terrorists launched commando-style attacks on two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and a crowded train station in Mumbai, India, killing 166 people. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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Current Birthdays
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Singer Natasha Bedingfield turns 30 years old today.
AP Photo/Dan Steinberg
Actor Peter Facinelli turns 38 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
| 1938 | Porter Goss, Former CIA director, turns 73 |
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| 1938 | Rich Little, Comedian, turns 73 |
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| 1939 | Tina Turner, Rock singer, turns 72 |
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| 1945 | John McVie, Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac), turns 66 |
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| 1946 | Art Shell, Football Hall of Famer, turns 65 |
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| 1953 | Harry Carson, Football Hall of Famer, turns 58 |
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| 1960 | Jack Markell, Governor of Delaware, turns 51 |
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Historic Birthdays
Charles Schulz11/26/1922 - 2/12/2000American cartoonist and creator of the "Peanuts" comic stripGo to obituary »
| 68 | William Cowper 11/26/1731 - 4/25/1800
English poet |
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| 81 | Sarah Grimke 11/26/1792 - 12/23/1873
American abolitionist and early feminist |
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| 96 | Katharine Drexel 11/26/1858 - 3/3/1955
American founder of Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament |
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| 73 | Willis H. Carrier 11/26/1876 - 10/7/1950
American inventor and industrialist |
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| 84 | Heinrich Bruning 11/26/1885 - 3/30/1970
German statesman, chancellor and foreign minister |
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| 69 | Norbert Wiener 11/26/1894 - 3/18/1964
American mathematician |
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| 36 | Bruno Hauptmann 11/26/1899 - 4/3/1936
Kidnapper of the son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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| 84 | Eugene Ionesco 11/26/1909 - 3/28/1994
Romanian-born French dramatist |
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| 79 | Eric Sevareid 11/26/1912 - 7/9/1992
American journalist |
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