FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2021

1778-Capt. Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)

1789-First national thanksgiving

1825-First college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))

1865-“Alice in Wonderland” published

1868 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in San Francisco, at 25th & Folsom

1885-1st meteor photograph

1924-Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed

1940-Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto

1941-Lebanon gains independence from France

1949-India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic

1950-China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River

1962-1st recording session under the name "Beatles"

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)

1982-Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki

1983-Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million

1985-23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched

1990-Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait