blue water massey
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Nov. 26
1476 Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota and becomes the ruler of Wallachia 3rd time
1716 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1778 Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)
1789 1st national thanksgiving
1812 The Battle of Berezina begins during Napoleon's retreat from Russia
1832 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC)
1842 The University of Notre Dame is founded
1861 At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West Virginia
1863 President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day
1885 1st meteor photograph
1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed
1922 H Carter and Lord Carnarvon first to enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in over 3000 years
1924 Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1941 Lebanon gains independence from France
1943 WWII: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in the Mediterranean north of B?ja?a, Algeria
1944 A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in London, United Kingdom
1944 Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium
1949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1950 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
1965 France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
1966 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1973 Rose Mary Woods, tells court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in Watergate tape
1975 Fed jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination; (of Gerald Ford)
1983 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
1985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
1988 Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
1990 Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
1476 Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota and becomes the ruler of Wallachia 3rd time
1716 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1778 Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)
1789 1st national thanksgiving
1812 The Battle of Berezina begins during Napoleon's retreat from Russia
1832 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC)
1842 The University of Notre Dame is founded
1861 At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West Virginia
1863 President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day
1885 1st meteor photograph
1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed
1922 H Carter and Lord Carnarvon first to enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in over 3000 years
1924 Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1941 Lebanon gains independence from France
1943 WWII: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in the Mediterranean north of B?ja?a, Algeria
1944 A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in London, United Kingdom
1944 Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium
1949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1950 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
1965 France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
1966 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1973 Rose Mary Woods, tells court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in Watergate tape
1975 Fed jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination; (of Gerald Ford)
1983 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
1985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
1988 Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
1990 Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
