Today in History: November 26, Mumbai terror attacks of 2008 begin

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 26, the 331st time of 2024. There are 35 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Nov. 26, 2008, teams of heavy equipped militants from the violent radical Lashkar-e-Taiba stormed luxury hotels, a fashionable edifice and a crowded bid presumption successful Mumbai, India, leaving astatine slightest 175 radical dormant (including 9 of the attackers) successful a rampage spanning 4 days.

Also connected this date:

In 1791, President George Washington held his archetypal afloat furniture meeting; successful attendance were Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox and Attorney General Edmund Randolph.

In 1864, English mathematician and writer Charles Dodgson presented a handwritten and illustrated manuscript, “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,” to his 12-year-old person Alice Pleasance Liddell; the publication was aboriginal turned into “Alice’s Adventures successful Wonderland,” published nether Dodgson’s pen name, Lewis Carroll.

In 1917, the National Hockey League was founded successful Montreal, succeeding the National Hockey Association.

In 1941, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a enactment to Japan’s ambassador to the United States, Kichisaburo Nomura (kee-chee-sah-boor-oh noh-moo-rah), mounting distant U.S. demands for “lasting and extended bid passim the Pacific area.” The aforesaid day, a Japanese naval task unit consisting of six craft carriers near the Kuril Islands, headed toward Hawaii.

In 1942, the movie ‘Casablanca,’ starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered astatine the Hollywood Theater successful New York City.

In 1973, President Richard Nixon’s idiosyncratic secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a national tribunal that she’d accidentally caused portion of the 18-1/2-minute spread successful a cardinal Watergate tape.

In 2000, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the victor implicit Al Gore successful the state’s statesmanlike balloting by a 537-vote margin.

Today’s Birthdays:

• Impressionist Rich Little is 86.
• Football Hall of Famer Jan Stenerud is 82.
• Author Marilynne Robinson is 81.
• Bass guitarist John McVie (Fleetwood Mac) is 79.
• Football Hall of Famer Art Shell is 78.
• Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is 71.
• Football Hall of Famer Harry Carson is 71.
• NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett is 68.
• Country vocalist Linda Davis is 62.
• Actor-TV property Garcelle Beauvais is 58.
• Actor Peter Facinelli is 51.
• DJ-music shaper DJ Khaled (KAL’-ehd) is 49.
• Country instrumentalist Joe Nichols is 48.
• Pop vocalist Natasha Bedingfield is 43.
• Actor-singer-TV property Rita Ora is 34.