
Today is Sunday, Nov. 26, the 330th day of 2017. There are 35 days left in the year.
►Birthdays: Impressionist Rich Little is 79. Singer Tina Turner is 78. Singer Jean Terrell is 73. Pop musician John McVie is 72. Actress Marianne Muellerleile is 69. Actor Scott Jacoby is 61. Actress Jamie Rose is 58. Country singer Linda Davis is 55. Actor Scott Adsit is 52. Blues singer-musician Bernard Allison is 52. Country singer-musician Steve Grisaffe is 52. Actress Kristin Bauer is 51. Actor Peter Facinelli is 44. Actress Tammy Lynn Michaels Etheridge is 43. Actress Jessica Bowman is 37. Pop singer Natasha Bedingfield is 36. Country singer-musician Mike Gossin (Gloriana Rock) is 33. Rock musician Ben Wysocki (The Fray) is 33. Singer Lil Fizz is 32. Singer Aubrey Collins is 30. Actress-singer-TV personality Rita Ora is 27.
In 1789, Americans observed a day of thanksgiving set aside by President George Washington to mark the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
In 1864, English mathematician and writer Charles Dodgson presented a handwritten and illustrated manuscript, ‘‘Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,’’ to 12-year-old Alice Pleasance Liddell; the book was later turned into ‘‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.’’
In 1917, the National Hockey League was founded in Montreal, succeeding the National Hockey Association.
In 1933, a judge in New York ruled the James Joyce book ‘‘Ulysses’’ was not obscene and could be published in the United States.
In 1941, US Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a note to Japan’s ambassador to the United States, Kichisaburo Nomura, setting forth US demands for ‘‘lasting and extensive peace throughout the Pacific area.’’ The same day, a Japanese naval task force consisting of six aircraft carriers left the Kuril Islands, headed toward Hawaii.
In 1950, China entered the Korean War, launching a counteroffensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the U.S. and South Korea.
In 1973, President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she’d accidentally caused part of the 18½-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.
In 1991, the Stars and Stripes were lowered for the last time at Clark Air Base in the Philippines as the United States abandoned one of its oldest and largest overseas installations, which was damaged by a volcano.
In 1992, the British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income, and would take her children off the public payroll.
In 2012, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak abruptly quit politics, saying ‘‘I feel I have exhausted my political activity, which had never been a special object of desire for me.’’