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Today In History - November 26 |
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1867 The refrigerated railroad car is patented by J. B. Sutherland... |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1607 John Harvard (Founder of Harvard University) 1640 Carl Rosier 1653 Andreas Anton Schmelzer 1731 William Cowper 1754 Georg Forster 1792 Sarah Moore Grimke 1795 Carl P. Fohr 1809 Mariano Obiols 1810 William G. Armstrong 1816 William Henry Talkbot Walker 1818 Louis Lacombe 1823 Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen 1827 Alfred Moore Scales 1832 Mary Edwards Walker 1850 Henricus Van de Wetering 1857 Ferdinand de Saussure 1862 Mark A. Stein 1864 Herman Gorter 1865 Earl Ross Drake 1876 Willis Haviland Carrier 1883 Milhaly Babits 1888 Franz Jung 1892 Joe Guyon 1894 Norbert Wiener 1895 Bertil Lindblad 1901 Philippus J. Idenburg 1902 Alberto Morin 1902 Gerrit Jan van der Veen 1905 Emlyn Williams 1905 George Emlyn Williams 1906 Sandro Fuga 1907 Frances Dee 1908 Charles Forte 1908 Lefty Gomez 1908 Philipp Mohler 1909 Eugene Ionesco 1910 Cyril Cusack 1911 Raymond Scheyven 1911 Ronald Diggens 1911 Samuel H. Reshevsky 1912 Eric Sevareid 1912 Gunnar Johannes Sonstevold 1913 Foy Draper 1913 Joshua William Steward 1915 Earl Wild 1918 Patricio Aylwin 1919 Frederik Pohl 1920 Istvan Sarkozy 1921 Francoise Gilot 1922 Adele Jergens 1922 Charles M. Schulz (Creator of Peanuts) 1923 Patricia Phoenix 1924 George Segal 1924 Jasu Patel 1925 Eugene Istomin 1925 Linda Hunt 1926 Joyce McCartan 1926 Mauro Bortolotti 1927 John Carter 1929 Betta St. John 1929 Lorraine Macleod 1931 Adolfo Perez Esquivel 1933 Robert Goulet 1934 Ludmila Shevtsova 1935 Marian Mercer 1936 Margaret Boden 1937 Boris Borisovich Yegorov 1937 Garnett Mimms 1937 Leo Lacroix 1938 Elizabeth E. Bailey 1938 Jeremy Boorda 1938 Porter J. Goss 1938 Rich Little 1938 Tina Turner 1941 Jeff Torborg 1942 Olivia Cole 1943 Bruce Paltrow 1943 Gerald D. Kleczka 1943 Jan Stenerud 1943 Paul Burnett 1944 Alan Henderson 1944 Jean Terrell 1945 Daniel Davis 1945 John McVie 1945 Mikhail Woronin 1945 Tandy Cronyn 1946 Angus Suttie 1946 Bert Bouquet 1946 Burt Reiter 1947 Larry Gura 1947 Richie Hebner 1950 Jorge Orta 1952 Wendy Turnbell 1953 Louise Parks 1955 Bob Walk 1955 Jay Howell 1959 Jamie Rose 1959 Mike Moore 1960 Harold Reynolds 1961 Dave Hannan 1961 Marcy Walker 1962 Chuck Finley 1962 John Samuel Inman 1962 Mike Johnson 1963 Allyson Rice-Taylor 1963 Mario Elie 1964 Al Smith 1964 Jeff Jaeger 1964 Vreni Schneider 1966 Jay Berger 1966 Sue Wicks 1967 Karol Rusznyak 1967 Ridley Jacobs 1968 Steve Lofton 1969 Sam Militello 1969 Shawn Kemp 1970 Greg Graham 1970 John Amaechi 1970 Lorissa McComas 1970 Mark Dixon 1971 Emma Robinson 1971 Vince Danielsen 1972 Nicole Beach 1973 John Zimmerman 1974 David Barnard 1974 Jamie Jones 1974 Richard Ikeda 1978 Sarah Cahill 1980 Jessica Bowman 1981 Jamie Fiske 1992 Louis Ducrut |
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On This Date in History |
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399 St. Siricius ends his reign as the Catholic Pope 579 Pelagius II begins his reign as the Catholic Pope 1527 Pope Clemens VII signs a treaty with Emperor Karel I 1580 French Huguenots and Roman Catholics sign a peace treaty 1598 Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam in West Java 1648 Pope Innocent X condemns the Peace of Westfalen 1688 The Duke of Savoye signs on to the League of Augsburg 1688 French King Louis XIV declares war on the Netherlands 1688 King James II escapes back to London 1703 Bristol England is damaged by a hurricane and the Royal Navy loses 15 warships, thousands of people are killed 1716 The first lion is exhibited in America: Boston 1741 The French and Beiers Armies occupy Prague 1764 France bans the Jesuit order 1778 Captain Cook discovers Maui 1789 The first national Thanksgiving 1793 The Republican calendar replaces the Gregorian calendar in France 1825 The first college fraternity is founded: Kappa Alpha at Union College, New York 1832 The first streetcar railway in America starts operating: New York City; 12¢ fare 1835 The HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for New Zealand 1861 West Virginia is created as a result of a dispute over slavery with Virginia 1864 Confederate troops vacate Sandersville, Georgia 1864 Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal in Waynesboro, Georgia 1865 "Alice in Wonderland" is published in the US 1867 The refrigerated railroad car is patented by J. B. Sutherland 1868 The first baseball game is played in an enclosed field 1885 The first meteor photograph is taken 1894 King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs an accord with France 1895 The Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms 1913 The Russian kingdom forbids the Polish congregation of speakers 1914 Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor, England and 788 people die 1916 Greece declares war on Germany 1924 The Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed 1925 The Netherlands and Germany sign a trade agreement 1933 Camille Chautemps becomes the French Premier 1934 German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to the Nazis 1940 Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland 1941 Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro 1941 The Japanese carrier force left its base and moved east toward Pearl Harbor 1941 Lebanon gains independence from France 1942 "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre in New York City 1944 The first allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor 1944 Himmler orders the destruction of the Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoriums 1949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic 1950 China enters the Korean conflict 1952 The first modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil," premieres in Hollywood 1955 An emergency crisis is proclaimed in Cyprus 1955 Johnny Cash debuts his Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!" 1956 "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC 1961 The Professional Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball 1962 The Fab Four have their first recording session under name Beatles 1963 Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins the NL Rookie of Year 1963 Explorer 18 is launched 1967 A storm over Lisbon kills about 450 people 1969 The Lottery for Selective Service Draftees bill is signed by President Nixon 1973 Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court that she accidentally caused part of 18 -minute gap in a key Watergate tape recording 1974 Approximately 140 people die when a suspension bridge collapses in Nepal 1975 A Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination 1975 France performs a nuclear test at Fangataufa Island 1975 U.S. performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1976 Willy Burns is elected the Chairman of Social International 1978 The first lesbian theme TV movie is broadcast: "Question of Love" 1979 The International Olympic Committee votes to readmit China 1982 Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by the Larry Holmes Vs Tex Cobb mismatch 1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone is elected the PM of Japan 1984 The U.S. and Iraq regain diplomatic relations 1985 France performs a nuclear test at Muruora Island 1985 Random House buys Richard Nixon's memoirs for $3,000,000 1989 Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes the President of Uruguay 1989 Rafael Callejas is installed as the president of Honduras 1990 The first Billboard Music Awards: Janet Jackson wins 1990 Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion 1990 Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait 1990 Premier Mazowiecki of Poland resigns 1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York High School students 1993 Opposing political campaigners James Carville and Mary Matalin marry |
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