Daily Archives: 11/26/2025
Tribes of Wa State
November 15
National American Indian Heritage Month
If you’re located in an area with a strong Native American presence, consider partnering to create programs, products, fundraisers, or other offerings to honor local Native people.
National American Indian Heritage Month
If you’re located in an area with a strong Native American presence, consider partnering to create programs, products, fundraisers, or other offerings to honor local Native people.
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The Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1789, established the frame work for the federal government and is the supreme law of the land.
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor– and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be– That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks–for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation–for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war–for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed–for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted–for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
Source: mountvernon.org
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on this day 11/26
1716 – The first lion to be exhibited in America went on display in Boston, MA.
1731 – English poet William Cowper was born. He is best known for “The Poplar Trees” and “The Task.”
1789 – U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
1825 – The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, NY.
1832 – Public streetcar service began in New York City.
1867 – J.B. Sutherland patented the refrigerated railroad car.
1917 – The National Hockey League (NHL) was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.
1922 – In Egypt, Howard Carter peered into the tomb of King Tutankhamen.
1940 – The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.
1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939 Roosevelt had signed a bill that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November.
1942 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing to begin December 1.
1942 – The motion picture “Casablanca” had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
1943 – The HMS Rohna became the first ship to be sunk by a guided missile. The German missile attack led to the death of 1,015 U.S. troops.
1949 – India’s Constituent Assembly adopted the country’s constitution The country became republic within the British Commonwealth two months later.
1950 – China entered the Korean conflict forcing UN forces to retreat.
1958 – Maurice Richard (Montreal Canadiens) scored his 600th NHL career goal.
1965 – France became the third country to enter space when it launched its first satellite the Diamant-A.
1973 – Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she was responsible for the 18-1/2 minute gap in a key Watergate tape. Woods was U.S. President Nixon‘s personal secretary.
1975 – Lynette”Squeaky” Fromme was found guilty by a federal jury in Sacramento, CA, for trying to assassinate U.S. President Ford on September 5.
1979 – The International Olympic Committee voted to re-admit China after a 21-year absence.
1983 – A Brinks Mat Ltd. vault at London’s Heathrow Airport was robbed by gunmen. The men made off with 6,800 gold bars worth nearly $40 million. Only a fraction of the gold has ever been recovered and only two men were convicted in the heist.
1985 – The rights to Richard Nixon‘s autobiography were acquired by Random House for $3,000,000.
1986 – U.S. President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff after the Iran-Contra affair.
1988 – The U.S. denied an entry visa to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who was seeking permission to travel to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.
1990 – Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz at the Kremlin to demand that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait.
1990 – Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. agreed to acquire MCA Inc. for $6.6 billion.
1992 – The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income. She also took her children off the public payroll.
1995 – Two men set fire to a subway token booth in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The clerk inside was fatally burned.
1997 – The U.S. and North Korea held high-level discussions at the State Department for the first time.
1998 – British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a speech to the Irish Parliament. It was a first time event for a British Prime Minister.
1998 – Hulk Hogan announced that he was retiring from pro wrestling and would run for president in 2000.
2003 – The U.N. atomic agency adopted a resolution that censured Iran for past nuclear cover-ups and warning that it would be policed to put to rest suspicions that the country had a weapons agenda.
2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. The Mars rover Curiosity landed on the floor of Gale Crater on August 6, 2012.
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FDR and Thanksgiving … 11/26
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| 1776 |
| Peyton Randolph laid to rest at William and Mary » |
| 1931 |
| First U.S. “cloverleaf” appears on the cover of the Engineering News-Record » |
| CIVIL WAR |
| 1863 |
| Mine Run campaign begins » |
| 1950 |
| Chinese counterattacks in Korea change nature of war » |
| 1933 |
| Vigilantes in California lynch two suspected murderers » |
| 1898 |
| Winter storm paralyzes southern New England » |
| 1922 |
| Archaeologists enter tomb of King Tut » |
| 1942 |
| Casablanca premieres in NYC » |
| 1862 |
| Alice in Wonderland manuscript is sent as a Christmas present » |
| 1989 |
| MTV Unplugged premieres » |
| 1872 |
| The Great Diamond Hoax is exposed » |
| 2002 |
| George W. Bush pardons a turkey » |
| 1946 |
| Football trailblazer Art Shell is born » |
| 1968 |
| Air Force helicopter pilot rescues Special Forces team » |
| 1916 |
| T.E. Lawrence reports on Arab affairs » |
| 1941 |
| Japanese task force leaves for Pearl Harbor » |
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