Tweet me!| Today is Thursday, November 26, the 330th day of 2009. There are 35 days left in the year. Some interesting memorable moments to know about. Some even concern Algeria and others concern people of faith. |
1789: A day of Thanksgiving is set aside by US President George Washington to observe the adoption of America's Constitution.
Other Notable Events
1095: Pope Urban urges the faithful to wrest the Holy Land from the Muslims, heralding start of Crusades.
1857: First Australian Parliament opens in Melbourne.
1922: King Tutankhamen's tomb is opened in Egypt.
1940: Half-million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, are ordered to live within a walled ghetto.
1949: India adopts constitution as federal republic within British Commonwealth.
1950: China enters the Korean conflict, launching a counteroffensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the United States and South Korea.
1975: A federal jury in Sacramento, California, finds Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate US President Gerald Ford.
1989: El Salvador breaks relations with Nicaragua after weapons-loaded plane from that country is downed in El Salvador.
1991: UNICEF says fighting and crop failures in southern Sudan have forced unprecedented exodus of 200,000 people.
1992: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II announces she would start paying taxes on her personal income and take her children off the national payroll.
1997: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invites foreign experts to live in his "presidential palaces" to prove that he has nothing to hide. The palaces remain closed to weapons inspectors.
1998: The Supreme Court of Canada rules that authorities at elementary and secondary schools have the right to search a student without first obtaining a search warrant.
2000: Florida certifies George W Bush as the winner of the state's electoral votes for the US presidential election. US vice-president and Democratic rival Al Gore challenges the decision.
2001: Former French intelligence chief General Paul Aussaressess says in testimony that the orders he issued to torture and kill prisoners during the Algerian independence war were justifiable acts of duty.
2002: Attorney Gloria Allred asks California authorities to investigate singer Michael Jackson because of news videotape of the star holding his baby son over a fourth-floor railing at a hotel in Germany.
2007: A British teacher is arrested in Sudan for allegedly insulting Islam by naming a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, 54, is jailed for more than a week and eventually freed.
2008: Teams of heavily armed gunmen storm luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in Mumbai, India, leaving at least 172 people dead and wounding 239 others after a 60-hour rampage.
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