Hump Day History

This Day In History - November 26

• 399 St Siricius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
  
  
• 579 Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
  
  
• 1703 Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships
  
  
• 1716 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
  
  
• 1778 Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)
  
  
• 1789 The first national Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. was proclaimed by President George Washington
  
  
• 1793 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
  
  
• 1825 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
  
  
• 1832 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC)
  
  
• 1841 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan
  
  
• 1861 At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West Virginia
  
  
• 1865 Alice in Wonderland published
  
  
• 1868 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in San Francisco, at 25th & Folsom
  
  
• 1885 1st meteor photograph
  
  
• 1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed
  
  
• 1896 1st large indoor football game, U of Chicago beats U of Michigan 7-6
  
  
• 1896 A.A. Stagg of U Chicago creates the football huddle
  
  
• 1922 Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first to enter the tomb of King Tutankhamen (Tut) since it was sealed in 1323 B.C.
  
  
• 1924 Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
  
  
• 1940 The Nazis began to force Warsaw's Jews to live in a walled ghetto.1941 Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro
  
  
• 1941 Lebanon gains independence from France
  
  
• 1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes, killing 15 (Washington)
  
  
• 1949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
  
  
• 1950 China entered the Korean War.1962 1st recording session under the name "Beatles"
  
  
• 1965 France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
  
  
• 1966 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
  
  
• 1969 Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
  
  
• 1972 Pete Gogolak scores NY Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown
  
  
• 1973 Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
  
  
• 1974 Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal) 1975 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, was found guilty of trying to assassinate President Ford.1976 Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single
  
  
• 1978 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
  
  
• 1980 Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
  
  
• 1982 Clyde King named Yankee manager
  
  
• 1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
  
  
• 1982 Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by the Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
  
  
• 1983 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
  
  
• 1984 John W Mercom Jr announces NO Saints are up for sale
  for $75 million
• 1985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
  
  
• 1988 Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Jean-Loup Chretien launch
  
  
• 1988 Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
  
  
• 1990 Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend
  
  
• 1990 Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
  
  
• 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
  
  
• 1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
  
  
• 1998 Tony Blair became the first British prime minister to speak to the Irish parliament.
  
  
• 2000 Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner in Florida's presidential balloting.

Boy, that last one was a dark day in today's history, wasn't it? ~~s~h~u~d~d~e~r~~