November 26 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for November 26
In the headlines today:

2003	The Concorde supersonic jetliner makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
2002	Actor Nicholas Cage and singer Lisa Marie Presley divorce, less than four months after their marriage.
1998	Two trains collide in India, killing 211 people.
1994	William Schroeder becomes the second person in the world to receive an artificial heart, during surgery at Humana Hospital in Louisville, KY.
1980	Paul McCartney stars in Rockshow, a documentary movie of the 1976 "Wings Over America" tour, that premieres in New York.
1975	Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, is found guilty of attempting to assassinate US president Gerald Ford.
1973	Rose Mary Woods, secretary to US president Nixon, tells a federal court that she accidentally caused part of the 18-minute gap in a Watergate tape recording.
1965	France launches its first earth satellite.
1956	Bandleader Tommy Dorsey chokes to death in his sleep, at age 51.
1955	Rock Around The Clock by Bill Haley & his Comets, becomes the first rock and roll record to hit #1 on the UK charts.
1950	China joins the Korean conflict, launching a counter-offensive against United Nations, US and South Korean forces.
1949	India becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth.
1942	Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
1942	In order to ensure a supply of fuel for the American war effort during WWII, President Roosevelt orders nationwide gasoline rationing, to begin December 1.
1922	Archaeologists Howard Carter (US) and Lord Carnarvon (England) discover the tomb of King Tutankhamen in Egypt.
1825	Kappa Alpha, the first college fraternity, is formed at Union College in Schenectady, NY.

Born today:

1983 Chris Hughes - Facebook co-founder

1981 Natasha Bedingfield - singer

1976 Maia Campbell - actress

1974 Tammy Lynn Michaels - actress; spouse of singer Melissa Etheridge

1966 Garcelle Beauvais - actress (The Jamie Foxx Show)

1965 Steve Grisaffe - singer

1962 Linda Davis - country singer

1959 Jamie Rose - actress

1946 Art Shell - football player, coach

1946 John McVie - bassist (Fleetwood Mac)

1944 Alan Henderson - bassist (Them)

1943 Bruce Paltrow - producer, director

1942 Jan Stenerud - NFL kicker

1939 Tina Turner - singer, actress

1938 Rich Little - impressionist

1938 Ray Brown - singer (The Four Freshmen)

1933 Robert Goulet - singer

1922 Charles Schulz - Peanuts cartoonist

1912 Eric Severeid - broadcast journalist

1910 Cyril Cusack - actor

1832 Mary Edwards Walker - first female surgeon in US Army

1607 John Harvard - Harvard College founder

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