November 26

Today in History
• 1716 - 1st lion exhibited in America in Boston
• 1789 - 1st national Thanksgiving in America
• 1791 - 1st US cabinet meeting, held at George Washington's home in Philadelphia
• 1793 - Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
• 1825 - 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
• 1832 - 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating in New York City with 12 cent fare
• 1867 - Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
• 1922 - English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Christ the King Day
• Dev Deepawali
• Good Grief Day
• International Cake Day
• National Anti Obesity Day
• National Cake Day
• National Law Day
• World Lewis Day

Birthdays
• 1288 - Go-Daigo, 96th Emperor of Japan (1318-39)
• 1607 - John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard University
• 1795 - Cornelis Pieter Jacob Elout, Dutch military and President of West Sumatra
• 1827 - Alfred Moore Scales, American politician (45th Governor of North Carolina)
• 1827 - Ellen G. White, religious leader and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• 1828 - René Goblet, French politician (41st Prime Minister of France)
• 1832 - Mary Edwards Walker, American surgeon and women's rights leader
• 1876 - Willis Carrier, American engineer (developed modern air conditioning)