This Day In History — First Thanksgiving Day proclaimed

November 26

1789
The first national Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. was proclaimed by President George Washington.

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.

1940
The Nazis began to force Warsaw’s Jews to live in a walled ghetto.

1950
China entered the Korean War.

1975
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, was found guilty of trying to assassinate President Ford.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Birthdays

Eugene Ionesco

1909–1994, French playwright.

Ellen G. White

religious figure ()

John Harvard

founder of Harvard College (1607)

Sarah Moore Grimke

abolitionist (1792)

Mary Edwards Walker

surgeon and feminist (1832)

Katharine Drexel

Roman Catholic nun and saint (1858)

Willis Carrier

air conditioning pioneer (1876)

Norbert Wiener

mathematician and educator (1894)

Charles Schulz

cartoonist (1922)

Robert Goulet

singer, actor (1933)

Tina Turner

rhythm and blues singer (1939)

Lil’ Fizz

rapper, actor (1985)

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