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1789 - This was a day of thanksgiving set aside by U.S. President Washington to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, the first national celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

1825 - The first social fraternity was formed in the U.S. Nine close friends, meeting over apples and roasted potatoes in a cold and bare dormitory room at Union College in Schenectady, New York, unknowingly put their mark on the entire future of collegiate student organizations. They didn’t originate the idea of a secret Greek-letter society; Phi Beta Kappa had done that 50 years earlier ... nor the concept of a literary society; groups with names like Philomathean and Cliosophic had been around even longer. They didn’t even originate formalized student social groups or college eating clubs; both having long been commonplace. What John Hart Hunter, one of the nine, proposed on this day was to take an informal group calling itself The Philosophers, and formalize it using the strongest characteristics of all these existing institutions. And so, The Philosophers became Kappa Alpha Society. It was this synthesis that caught the attention of the college world and exploded into the collegiate fraternity system over the following 75 years. Features Spotlight

1860 - Hey, here’s big news: A newspaper print of newly elected President Abraham Lincoln clearly showed the beginnings of a beard. The idea for the beard had come from a letter sent by 11-year-old Grace Bedell, who had suggested that Mr. Lincoln would look better (and would be more electable) with a beard.

1864 - Charles L. Dodgson, whose pen name was Lewis Carroll, sent a handwritten manuscript to Alice Liddel. The manuscript was titled Alice’s Adventures Underground. It was an early Christmas present to the 12-year-old girl. Later, the manuscript was renamed Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. In 1933, the film version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland starred Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Edward Everett Horton as the Mad Hatter, W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Cary Grant as Mock Turtle, Jack Oakie as Tweedledum and Charlotte Henry in the title role of Alice.

1867 - The refrigerated railroad car was patented by J.B. Sutherland of Detroit, Michigan.

1896 - The University of Chicago defeated the University of Michigan, 7-6, at the Chicago Coliseum. It was the first major college football game played indoors.

1922 - The tomb of the Boy King, Tutankhamen, was discovered in Egypt by Lord Carnarvon of England and Howard Carter of the United States. The find was called, “The greatest archaeological discovery of all time.” People in America, looking for brevity in identifying great things before they forget, shortened the name to Tut.

1940 - Xavier Cugat and his orchestra recorded Orchids in the Moonlight on the Columbia label.

1941 - Bobby Riggs, the national amateur singles tennis champion, turned pro on this day.

1941 - U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull submitted an American ‘de facto ultimatumto Japanese envoys in Washington, DC.

1941 - A Japanese carrier force left its base, moving east. The top-secret destination was Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands.

1943 - The HMT Rohna was the first ship to be sunk by a German remote-controlled, rocket-boosted bomb, killing 1,015 U.S. troops. Counting the civilian crew and officers of the ship, and three Red Cross workers, a total of 1,138 were killed in the bombing -- more than the death toll on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.

1945 - The program, Bride and Groom, debuted on the ABC network. It is estimated that 1,000 newly-wed couples were interviewed on the program before it left the airwaves in 1950.

1949 - India adopted its constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth.

1950 - China entered the Korean ‘conflict’, launching a counteroffensive against U.N., U.S. and South Korea troops.

1956 - Bandleader Tommy Dorsey died at the age of 51. His records sold more than 110,000,000 copies.

1958 - Maurice ‘The Rocket’ Richard scored his 600th career goal for the Montreal Canadiens hockey team -- at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1959 - Composer Albert William Ketèlbey died at 84 years of age.

1962 - The Beatles recorded Please Please Me. It was their second single in the United Kingdom ("Love Me Do" had been released in the U.K. Oct 5, 1962), but their first to be released in the United States.

1965 - France launched its first satellite; a 92-pound capsule called Astérix (A1).

1966 - The first major tidal power plant was opened at La Rance estuary in France.

1968 - Cream gave a farewell performance filmed by the BBC in London. The rock group played before a capacity crowd at Royal Albert Hall.

1969 - The Band received a gold record for the album, The Band.

1969 - The Heisman Trophy was awarded to Steve Owens of Oklahoma as the nation’s outstanding college football player. Owens scored more touchdowns and gained more yardage than any previous player in collegiate history.

1973 - Rose Mary Woods, U.S. President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, told a federal court she had accidentally erased over eighteen minutes of a ‘Watergate tape’ made June 20, 1972. The recording was of a crucial conversation at an Oval-Office meeting between Nixon and Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman just three days after the Watergate break-in.

1975 - Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme, Manson-family devotee, was found guilty by a federal jury of trying to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. Fromme, 27, had attempted to shoot the president in Sacramento CA Sep 5 with a hand gun. Secret service agents wrestled the weapon from her.

1979 - Massive oil deposits equaling all OPEC reserves were found in Venezuela.

1980 - Rockshow premiered in New York City. The movie is about the first American tour of Paul McCartney and Wings.

1984 - After 518 goals and 14 years of service with the Montreal Canadiens, Guy Lafleur (‘The Flower’) decided to retire from hockey.

1987 - A powerful typhoon whipped across the Philippines, killing more than 650 people in the Bicol region of south Luzon and damaging or destroying 14,000 homes.

1990 - Japanese business giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. agreed to acquire MCA Inc. for $6.6 billion.

1991 - The Stars and Stripes were lowered for the last time at Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Philippines, as the United States abandoned one of its oldest and largest overseas installations, which had been ruined by the erupting Mount Pinatubo.

1992 - The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II (and Prince Charles) had volunteered to begin paying taxes on her personal income, and would remove her children from the public payroll.

1994 - The Eagles’ Hell Freezes Over, signaling the band’s reunion (after fourteen years), hit #1 (for two weeks) on U.S. album charts. The tracks: Get Over It, Love Will Keep Us Alive, The Girl from Yesterday, Learn to Be Still, Tequila Sunrise, Hotel California, Wasted Time Pretty Maids All in a Row, I Can’t Tell You Why, New York Minute, The Last Resort, Take It Easy, In the City ,Life in the Fast Lane and Desperado.

1996 - The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas was imploded to make room for the 6,000-room Venetian Resort Hotel Casino.

1997 - Debuting in U.S. theatres: Alien Resurrection, with Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) continuing her fight against the evil, creepy bad killer thingies; and Flubber, where absent-minded professor Phillip Brainard (Robin Williams) creates the stuff which allows objects to fly through the air and bounce all over the place. Yes, it is based on the 1961 Disney classic, The Absent-Minded Professor.

1998 - More than 200 people died when two trains collided in the northern state of Punjab, India. A coupling between two cars of one train had broken, derailing several cars. Two minutes later, an express, travelling in the opposite direction, on another track, crashed into the derailed cars.

1999 - British-born anthropologist and author Ashley Montagu died in Princeton, NJ. He was 95 years old. His over 60 books included Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race and The Natural Superiority of Women.

2000 - Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner over Al Gore in the state’s near-deadlocked presidential vote. But court contests left in doubt which man would be the ultimate victor and 43rd president of the U.S. Bush said he had won the White House and asked Gore to reconsider his challenges.

2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush (II) appealed to Congress to outlaw human cloning after scientists in Worcester, MA reported they had created the first cloned human embryo.

2002 - WorldCom and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settled a civil lawsuit over the company’s $9 billion accounting scandal.

2002 - A United Nations report said that for the first time in the 20-year history of the AIDS epidemic, about as many women as men were infected with HIV.

2003 - The Haunted Mansion opened in the U.S. The family fantasy comedy stars Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, Wallace Shawn, Marsha Thomason, Jennifer Tilly, Nathaniel Parker, Dina Waters, Marc John Jefferies and Aree Davis.

2003 - The U.N. Children’s Fund warned that AIDS had orphaned more than 11 million African children under the age of 15 and, “the worst is yet to come.”

2005 - Indian textile millionaire Vijaypat Singhania of India set a world record for highest hot air balloon flight: 69,852 feet (20.29 km).

2006 - Raúl Velasco, who hosted one of Mexico’s most popular and enduring TV programs, Siempre en Domingo, died at his home in Acapulco. He was 73 years old.

2007 - A study by the University of Michigan bolstered claims that Native Americans are descendents of a migrant group that crossed a lost land link from modern Siberia to Alaska. The study examined genes of indigenous people from North to South America and those of two Siberian groups.

2007 - Reports said North Korea had resumed frequent public executions, includuing a factory chief accused of making international phone calls. He was shot in a stadium before 150,000 spectators.

2008 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Australia, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown; Four Christmases, starring Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Jon Favreau, Tim McGraw, Dwight Yoakam, Skyler Gisondo and Jon Voight; and Transporter 3, with Jason Statham, Robert Knepper and Francois Berleand.

2008 - 110 people were killed and more than 300 injured when Islamic militants attacked ten sites in Mumbai, India, including the five-star Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and the 19th century Chhatrapati Shivaji railroad station.

2009 - Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi reported that Iranian authorities had taken her medal from her bank safety deposit box, claiming she owed taxes on the $1.3 million she was awarded. In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation of the gold medal was a shocking first in the 108-year-history of the prize.

2010 - The King’s Speech opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall and Geoffrey Rush. The movie went on to win four Oscars.

2010 - Russia said it would miss a 2012 deadline for destroying all of its chemical weapons, as officials inaugurated a major new plant to dispose of them. Pochep, the latest of six plants built in Russia in recent years, was set to process nearly 19 percent of Russia’s stockpile, or 7,500 tons of nerve agent used in aircraft-delivered munitions. The U.S. acknowledged that it would also miss the deadline.

2011 - NASA launched the Curiosity rover toward Mars on an 8½-month, 354 million-mile journey. Curiosity was the biggest, best equipped robot to be sent to explore another planet. Curiosity successfully landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on Aug 6, 2012.

2012 - Toronto’s Mayor Rob Ford was ordered out of office after a judge found him guilty of breaking conflict-of-interest laws. Did Ford vacate the office? Nope. He appealed the decision and the Ontario Superior Court upheld his appeal.

2013 - “Students whose political qualifications are not up to par must absolutely not graduate, even if their professional course work is excellent,” said Xu Yuanzhi, the party secretary at Kashgar Teachers College in China’s southern Xinjiang region, which had been an epicentre for ethnic unrest.

2014 - News reports said Qatar -- with U.S. help -- was covertly training moderate Syrian rebels to fight both President Bashar al-Assad and Islamic State. The program had been running for a year.

2015 - Britain’s financial regulator fined Barclays bank £72 million ($109 million, 102 million euros) for failing to carry out proper checks on a vast so-called “elephant deal” for ultra-wealthy clients.

2015 - Pope Francis held his first open-air mass in Africa with huge crowds hailing the heavy rains that were drenching them as “God’s blessing.” This, as they sang and danced in Nairobi, Kenya.

2016 - POTUS-elect Donald Trump picked K.T. McFarland to be his Deputy National Security Adviser. Kathleen Troia McFarland was a defense analyst for Fox News and host of the DEFCON program. She was on Henry Kissinger’s national security staff during the Nixon administration, and worked for Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger from 1982 to 1985, during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.

2016 - Malaysian political cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, or Zunar as he was popularly known, was arrested under the country’s Sedition Act for cartoons that insulted Prime Minister Najib Razak.

2017 - Meredith Corp, owner of magazines such as Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens, announced its purchase of Time Inc, publisher of TIME, People, Fortune and Sports Illustrated. The all cash deal was valued at nearly $3 billion. The deal was made possible in large part by an infusion of $650 million from right-wing billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.

2017 - Cigarette making companies began advertising in U.S. newspapers and TV about the negative health effects of smoking. The federal court-ordered campaign ran for four months in Sunday newspapers -- ending in March 2018 and the TV ads ran for one year -- through November 2018.

2018 - General Motors said it was laying off 14,700 factory and white-collar workers in North America and putting five plants up for possible closure. The moves came as the Detroit-based behemoth cut costs and focused more on autonomous and electric vehicles.

2018 - Investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller said Paul Manafort had repeatedly lied to federal investigators. This, in breach of a plea agreement the former chairman of the Trump presidential campaign had signed.

2018 - A NASA spacecraft that was designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the red planet. The Mars InSight probe came to a rest on the dusty surface after a six-month, 300 million-mile (482 million-km) journey and a perilous, six-minute descent throught the rose-hued Martian atmosphere that contains 96% carbon dioxide, 1.9% argon, 1.9% nitrogen, and traces of oxygen, carbon monoxide, water and methane, etc.

2019 - Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed legislation that gave future victims of child sex abuse more time to file lawsuits and ended time limits for police to file criminal charges.

2019 - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) evacuated dozens of their staff working on the Ebola epidemic from the town of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to the worsening security situation. This, after rebels believed to belong to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) killed eight people in an overnight raid. Residents angry at the perceived inaction of both the government and the U.N. peacekeeping mission then set fire to the mayor’s office and several U.N. buildings. Several people were killed in clashes with police.

2020 - The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York was confined to a single city block, instead of its traditional 2.5-mile route. And there were no high school bands, and about 130 balloon handlers instead of the usual 2,000. All of the changes were due to precautions being exibited because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020 - Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germans would face restrictions on public life for the foreseeable future as the country tried to suppress the spread of the coronavirus and prevent the health system from becoming overburdened.

2020 - Italy reported 822 COVID-19-related deaths, up from 722 the day before, and 29,003 new infections, up from 25,853.

2021 - Stephen Sondheim, Broadway composer and lyricist, died at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut at 91 years of age. Sondheim helped American musical theater evolve beyond pure entertain Sweeney Todd.

2021 - New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued a COVID-19 ‘disaster emergency’ declaration, citing increasing rates of infections and hospitalizations.

2021 - French fishermen disrupted cross-Channel traffic and blocked ferries and freight traffic through the Channel Tunnel for several hours in protest of the post-Brexit fishing rights granted by Britain.

2022 - Some 2,500 people posed naked for photographer Spencer Tunick on Australia’s Bondi Beach -- to raise awareness of skin cancer.

2022 - A landslide brought on by intense rain tore across the Italian island of Ischia, killing twelve people. This, on an island where 50% of the houses had been illegally built.

2022 - The Biden administration granted Chevron a license to resume pumping oil in Venezuela. Chevron was the only remaining active U.S. oil company in that country, and the license allowed the oil conglomerate to resume pumping in a joint venture with Venezuela’s national oil company. The U.S. Treasury Department agreed to grant Chevron a new license after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro pledged to implement a $3-billion humanitarian program.

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Jump to Top Birthdays on This Day    November 26

1792 - Sarah Moore Grimké
antislavery/women’s rights advocate; died Dec 23, 1873

1832 - Mary Edwards Walker
physician, women’s right leader: 1st female surgeon in U.S. Army; first woman to receive U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor; died Feb 21, 1919

1853 - Bat Masterson
Old West lawman, gambler, newspaper sports editor, columnist: New York Morning Telegraph; died Oct 25, 1921

1908 - Lefty (Vernon Louis) Gomez
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1932, 1936-1939/record: won six World Series games without a loss/all-star: 1933-1939/winning pitcher in first all-star game], Washington Nationals; died Feb 17, 1989

1909 - Eugène Ionesco
playwright: The Bald Soprano, The Chairs; died Mar 28, 1994

1910 - Cyril Cusack
actor: Far and Away, My Left Foot, The Tenth Man, 1984, True Confessions, Les Miserables, The Day of the Jackal, Sacco & Vanzetti, King Lear, Harold and Maude, David Copperfield, The Taming of the Shrew, Fahrenheit 451, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Waltz of the Toreadors, The Elusive Pimpernel, Odd Man Out, Late Extra; died Oct 7, 1993

1912 - (Arnold) Eric Sevareid
Emmy Award-winning news correspondent: LBJ-The Man and the President, CBS News with Walter Cronkite [1972-1973], The Agnew Resignation, CBS News with Walter Cronkite [10/10/1973]; commentator: CBS; died July 9, 1992

1922 - Charles Schulz
cartoonist: Peanuts; Emmy Award-winning writer: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving [1973]; died Feb 12, 2000

1933 - Robert Goulet
singer: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, My Love Forgive Me, Camelot; actor: Mr. Wrong, Camelot, I’d Rather be Rich, Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, Scrooged, Blue Light; died Oct 30, 2007

1935 - Marian Mercer
singer, actress: The Dean Martin Show, The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters Show, Home Free, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, A Touch of Grace, The Sandy Duncan Show, It’s a Living, The Dom Deluise Show, The Andy Williams Show; died Apr 27, 2011

1938 - Rich Little (Caruthers)
comedian and impressionist: over 150 impressions; actor: The Late Shift, Happy Hour, Dirty Tricks

1939 - Mark Margolis
actor: Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Santa Barbara, The Equalizer, Quantum Leap, Oz, Law & Order, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Crossing Jordan, Californication; died Aug 3, 2023

1939 - Tina Turner (Annie Bullock)
Grammy Award-winning Pop Singer of the Year [1985]; What’s Love Got to Do with It, Private Dancer, We Don’t Need Another Hero, Theme from Goldeneye; w/Ike Turner: A Fool in Love, Proud Mary; died May 24, 2023

1942 - Olivia Cole
Emmy Award-winning actress: Roots [1977]; Heroes, Coming Home, Some Kind of Hero, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Big Shots, First Sunday, Something About Amelia, The Women of Brewster Place; Backstairs at the White House, Brewster Place, North and South, Book I, Police Woman, Family, L.A. Law, Murder, She Wrote; Broadway: The School for Scandal, You Can’t Take It with You, The Merchant of Venice, The National Health; died Jan 19, 2018

1942 - Jan Stenerud
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Kansas City Chiefs kicker: NFL career record: 373 field goals kicked [1967-85]; invented kicking tee used by most NFL kickers; Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings

1944 - Alan Henderson
musician: bass: group: Them

1945 - Daniel Davis
actor: The Hunt for Red October, Columbo: No Time to Die, Palomino, Havana, K-9, George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation

1945 - John McVie
musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac: Dreams

1946 - Art Shell
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Oakland Raider LT, Super Bowl XI, XV; coach: Oakland Raiders

1947 - Richie (Richard Joseph) Hebner
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], Philadelphia Phillies, NY Mets, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs

1947 - Larry (Lawrence Cyril) Gura
baseball: pitcher: Arizona State all-American; Chicago Cubs, NY Yankees, KC Royals [World Series: 1980/all-star: 1980]

1952 - Wendy Turnbull
tennis: made it to the finals in singles Grand Slam events 3 times: 1977 U.S. Open, 1979 French Open and Australian Open; captured 9 Grand Slam Doubles and mixed doubles and 13 Senior Grand Slam doubles titles; won bronze medal at the Olympics in Seoul, South Korea in doubles [1988]

1953 - Harry Carson
Pro Football Hall of Famer [linebacker]: New York Giants: Super Bowl XXI, 9× Pro Bowl selection

1954 - Bob Murray
hockey: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks player, coach

1956 - Scott Jacoby
Emmy Award-winning actor: That Certain Summer, Wednesday Movie of the Week, To Die For series, Return to Horror High, Midnight Auto Supply, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Bad Ronald, Rivals

1956 - Dale Jarrett
NASCAR racing champ: Daytona 500 in 1993, 1996, 2000, Brickyard 400 [1996], NASCAR NEXTEL Cup [1999]; father of racer Jason Jarrett, brother of driver Glenn Jarrett, father is former race car driver Ned Jarrett

1959 - Jamie Rose
actress: Falcon Crest, Lady Blue, To Die Standing, Playroom, Rebel Love, Tightrope, Heartbreakers, In Love with an Older Woman, Twirl

1960 - Johnny Hector
football: NY Jets RB

1962 - Chuck Finley
baseball [pitcher]: California/Anaheim Angels, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals

1963 - Mario Elie
basketball [forward, guard]: NBA: Philadelphia 76ers, Golden State Warriors, Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, Phoenix Suns

1964 - Cynthia Lea Clark
actress: Punchcard Player, Flirting With Death, The Last Fling, Just Between Friends, Love Lives On, The Execution, Chicago Story

1965 - Scott Adsit
comedian, actor: 30 Rock, Kicking and Screaming, Turnover, The Informant!, We’re the Millers, St. Vincent, Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter

1966 - Garcelle Beauvais
model, actress: NYPD Blue, Coming to America, Models Inc, The Jamie Foxx Show, Wild Wild West

1966 - Kristin Bauer van Straten
actress: Once Upon a Time, True Blood, Subject: I Love You, Dirty Sexy Money, Desperate Housewives, Boston Legal, Crazy, Dr. Vegas; more

1966 - Garcelle Beauvais
actress: The Jamie Foxx Show, NYPD Blue, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

1969 - Shawn Kemp
basketball [forward]: NBA: Seattle SuperSonics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trail Blazers, Orlando Magic

1972 - Adam Harrington
actor: Out of Order, The Secret Circle, Castle; video game: L.A. Noire

1972 - Chris Osgood
hockey [goaltender]: NHL: Detroit Red Wings [1993-2001]; New York Islanders [2001-2002]; St. Louis Blues [2002-2004]; Detroit Red Wings [2005-2011]: 2008 Stanley Cup champs

1973 - Peter Facinelli
actor: Supergirl, Nurse Jackie, Twilight film series, Fastlane, Can’t Hardly Wait

1975 - DJ Khaled (Khaled Mohamed Khaled)
producer, DJ, rapper: Kiss the Ring, I’m on One [featuring Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne], Grateful, Father of Asahd

1976 - Maia Campbell
actress: In the House, Sorority Sister Slaughter, With or Without You, Seventeen Again, Trippin’

1976 - Joe Nichols
musician: guitar; singer: Brokenheartsville, Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off, Gimmie That Girl, The Impossible, What’s a Guy Gotta Do, Sunny and 75

1977 - John Parrish
baseball [pitcher]: Baltimore Orioles [2000]; Seattle Mariners [2007]; Toronto Blue Jays [2008]; Royals [2010]

1981 - Natasha Bedingfield
singer: These Words, Single, Unwritten, I Wanna Have Your Babies, Soulmate; more

1981 - Aurora Snow
actress [2000-2012]: X-rated films: More Dirty Debutantes 152, Sex Across America: Third Stop San Francisco, Oral Adventures of Craven Morehead, A Perverted Point of View, Six Degrees of Penetration, This Ain’t Star Trek XXX

1986 - Trevor Morgan
actor: Jurassic Park III, ER, Local Color, The Sixth Sense, The Glass House, Genius, The Patriot, A Rumor of Angels, Chasing 3000, Mean Creek, Barney’s Great Adventure, Family Plan, Uncle Nino

1988 - Tamsin Egerton
actress: Merlin, St Trinian’s, Keeping Mum, Camelot, Chalet Girl, 4.3.2.1, Driving Lessons

1997 - Luka Sabbat
model: appeared in fashion mags such as Vogue, Complex, Refinery29; fashion designer: worked w/working with Dolce & Gabbana, Hugo Boss, Vogue, Tommy Hilfiger, American Eagle; actor: Grown-ish

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Jump to Top Hit Music on This Day    November 26

1949That Lucky Old Sun (facts) - Frankie Laine
Don’t Cry, Joe (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Betty Brewer)
I Can Dream, Can’t I? (facts) - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack Leonard)
Slipping Around (facts) - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely

1958It’s Only Make Believe (facts) - Conway Twitty
To Know Him, is to Love Him (facts) - The Teddy Bears
One Night (facts) - Elvis Presley
City Lights (facts) - Ray Price

1967Incense and Peppermints (facts) - Strawberry Alarm Clock
The Rain, the Park and Other Things (facts) - The Cowsills
Daydream Believer (facts) - The Monkees
It’s the Little Things (facts) - Sonny James

1976Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright) (facts) - Rod Stewart
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (facts) - Gordon Lightfoot
Love So Right (facts) - Bee Gees
Somebody Somewhere (Don’t Know What He’s Missin’ Tonight) (facts) - Loretta Lynn

1985We Built This City (facts) - Starship
You Belong to the City (facts) - Glenn Frey
Separate Lives (facts) - Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin
I’ll Never Stop Loving You (facts) - Gary Morris

1994I’ll Make Love to You (facts) - Boyz II Men
Here Comes the Hotstepper (facts) - Ini Kamoze
On Bended Knee (facts) - Boyz II Men
If I Could Make a Living (facts) - Clay Walker

2003Baby Boy (facts) - Beyoncé Knowles featuring Sean Paul
Hey Ya! (facts) - Outkast
Suga Suga (facts) - Baby Bash featuring Frankie J
I Love This Bar (facts) - Toby Keith

2012One More Night (facts) - Maroon 5
Diamonds (facts) - Rihanna
Die Young (facts) - Ke$ha
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (facts) - Taylor Swift

2021Easy on Me (facts) - Adele
Stay (facts) - The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber
Industry Baby (facts) - Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow
Fancy Like (facts) - Walker Hayes

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