sábado, 26 de noviembre de 2011

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On This Day: November 26

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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1789A day of thanksgiving was set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
1825The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.
1832Public streetcar service began in New York City.
1940The 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.
1942President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing.
1949India adopted a constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth.
1973President 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.
1975A federal jury found Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford.
1992Britain announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income, and would take her children off the public payroll.
2000Florida 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.
2008Terrorists launched commando-style attacks on two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and a crowded train station in Mumbai, India, killing 166 people.
2009An 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.
2010Nineteen-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.

Current Birthdays

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Natasha Bedingfield, Singer
Singer Natasha Bedingfield turns 30 years old today.
AP Photo/Dan Steinberg
Peter Facinelli, Actor
Actor Peter Facinelli turns 38 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
1938Porter Goss, Former CIA director, turns 73
1938Rich Little, Comedian, turns 73
1939Tina Turner, Rock singer, turns 72
1945John McVie, Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac), turns 66
1946Art Shell, Football Hall of Famer, turns 65
1953Harry Carson, Football Hall of Famer, turns 58
1960Jack Markell, Governor of Delaware, turns 51

Historic Birthdays

68William Cowper 11/26/1731 - 4/25/1800
English poet
81Sarah Grimke 11/26/1792 - 12/23/1873
American abolitionist and early feminist
96Katharine Drexel 11/26/1858 - 3/3/1955
American founder of Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
73Willis H. Carrier 11/26/1876 - 10/7/1950
American inventor and industrialist
84Heinrich Bruning 11/26/1885 - 3/30/1970
German statesman, chancellor and foreign minister
69Norbert Wiener 11/26/1894 - 3/18/1964
American mathematician
36Bruno Hauptmann 11/26/1899 - 4/3/1936
Kidnapper of the son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
84Eugene Ionesco 11/26/1909 - 3/28/1994
Romanian-born French dramatist
79Eric Sevareid 11/26/1912 - 7/9/1992
American journalist

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