On This Day In History
25 November 1992. The Czechoslovakian Parliament voted to split the country into 2 separate states: the Czech Republic and Slovakia from 1 January 1993. pic.twitter.com/sdrqrE01Fq
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 25, 2022
25 November 2005. Legendary Man Utd and Northern Ireland star, George Best, died (aged 59). He was named the European Footballer of the Year in 1968, and ranked 6th in the FIFA Player of the 20th Century vote. He was one of the most skilful and exciting footballers of all time. pic.twitter.com/KZ568i7cY5
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 25, 2022
25 November 2020. Argentinian football legend, Diego Maradona, died (aged 60). He’s regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time. He could win a game on his own. He was one of the 2 joint winners of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century award (along with Pele). pic.twitter.com/QoybSrsx0j
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 25, 2022
PHOTO OF THE DAY. Neil Armstrong’s wife Jan and two sons watch Apollo 11 launch. 📷 Vernon Merritt (1969). pic.twitter.com/mgh8yNTG3j
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 25, 2022
November 26th
43 BC Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leader Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed
1778 British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1789 1st national Thanksgiving in America
Did You Know?
World's greatest robbery; 26 million pounds (sterling) worth of gold, diamonds and cash stolen from Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England
Today in History in 1983
Would You Believe?
In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record
Today in History in 1970
26 November 1998. Tony Blair became the first British Prime Minister to speak in the Irish Parliament. The Irish Parliament had been created 80 years earlier in open defiance of the British government, which Blair now headed. pic.twitter.com/8beDbjfgU9
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 26, 2022
#OTD in 1942, 'Casablanca' was released in the US, starring Swedish actor Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. A 3-time Oscar winner, Bergman later said: "I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart." pic.twitter.com/unCISheoMN
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) November 26, 2022
On this day in 1957, the Texas legislature passed a bill allowing the Governor to close any schools to prevent federal troops from enforcing integration. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/HCTKGiyT0N
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) November 26, 2022
26 November 1476. Vlad III (also known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula), defeated the forces of Basarab Laiota, and retook the throne of Wallachia (now Romania), for the 3rd time. He was the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula. pic.twitter.com/trOR4EayPK
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 26, 2022
26-29 November 1703. The “Great Storm of 1703” first hit the southern part of Britain. Winds gusted up to 120 MPH, causing 2,000 chimney stacks to collapse in London, and felling 4,000 trees in the New Forest. Many ships were sunk, and up to 9,000 people were killed. pic.twitter.com/441DGN7gNE
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 26, 2022
26 November 1863. US President, Abraham Lincoln, proclaimed 26 November as a national Thanksgiving Day. On 26 December 1941, President Franklin D Roosevelt signed a joint resolution of Congress changing the national Thanksgiving Day to the 4th Thursday in November. pic.twitter.com/e1e2rqOU3Z
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 26, 2022
26 November 1867. Shopkeeper, Lily Maxwell, became the first woman to vote in a British election, due to a clerical error on the electoral register, for a by-election in Manchester. Her vote was later declared void. pic.twitter.com/ceLAzlcUke
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 26, 2022
26 November 1926. The British archaeologists, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, broke the seal and entered Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt for the first time in over 3,000 years. It was the greatest archaeological find of the 20th century. pic.twitter.com/DqQERefoR9
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 26, 2022
26 November 1961. John F. Kennedy appointed, Dr Janet Travell, as the first woman to be the personal physician to the President. She was an expert in the field of neuromuscular pain. This was useful to JFK who had 2 operations on his spine and suffered from severe back pain. pic.twitter.com/CIKeEAZxpp
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 26, 2022
26 November 1968. The Race Relations Act became law. It made it illegal to discriminate because of a person’s ethnic background. pic.twitter.com/r0ypkIU9GB
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 26, 2022
26 November 2003. The supersonic plane, Concorde 216, made its final flight over Bristol before returning to its original home base at Filton. It’s preserved at Aerospace Bristol, the birthplace of supersonic travel. pic.twitter.com/2Ysgv2PM0v
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 26, 2022
26 November 2008. A total of 164 people were killed in a series of coordinated Islamist terrorist bomb, and shooting attacks in Mumbai, India. The attacks went on for 4 days in all. pic.twitter.com/JMgL05OdBZ
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 26, 2022
Sad news. 😢
Irene Cara, best known for singing the title tracks of the classic 1980s films Fame and Flashdance, has died at the age of 63.
She won the Oscar for Best Original Song and a Grammy for Flashdance, and played the role of Coco Hernandez in Fame and will be missed. pic.twitter.com/tvlZr2AO80— Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) November 26, 2022
November 27th
1095 Pope Urban II preaches the west to wrestle control of the Holy land from the Seljuk Turks at the Council of Clermont, triggering the First Crusade
1295 English King Edward I calls what later became known as “The Model Parliament” extending the authorities of its representatives
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the 1st native American uprising against Spanish rule. Taíno cacique Caonabo led his people to attack the settlement after the brutal treatment they received from the garrison who disobeyed Columbus’s orders.
1807 Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 people leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil to escape invading Napoleonic troops
1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel‘s will establishes the Nobel Prize