{"id":16440,"date":"2012-11-26T00:02:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T08:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=16440"},"modified":"2012-11-25T18:14:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T02:14:57","slug":"this-day-in-history-november-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/this-day-in-history-november-26\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History: November 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this day in history<\/a>, November 26th\u2026\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

1842:<\/strong> The University of Notre Dame was founded by Father Edward Sorin. \u00a0He also became the University’s first President. The University’s name “Notre Dame” is French for “Our Lady,” being a catholic school, the term “Our Lady” is a reference to the Virgin Mary. When the University was first founded, it was an all male institution until 1972 when the University first started enrolling women. Today, almost half\u00a0of the student body are women. \u00a0The University is split into 5 colleges and one professional school and has several sporting teams including their football team “The Fighting Irish”, that has won eleven championships, seven Heisman trophy winners, and has had sixty two member\u00a0inducted into the college football hall of fame.<\/p>\n

1922:<\/strong> British archaeologist, Howard Carter, (discoverer of the steps to the entrance of King\u00a0Tutankhamen\u2019s Tomb on November 4th, 1922) finally enter the tomb after 18 days of excavation. When they first found the door to the antechamber of Tutankhamen’s tomb,\u00a0they feared they had discovered yet another pillaged tomb. But they instead found the room was so undisturbed that it even bore footprints of the tomb builders who left the room more than 3,000 years before.\u00a0 From this point on, the massive excavation of the 4- room tomb started to unfold revealing the nearly intact tomb of the Pharoah with his mummified remains inside a solid gold coffin nested within a stone sarcophagus.<\/p>\n

1942:<\/strong> One of the most beloved Hollywood movies in history, “Casablanca<\/a>“, first premiered in New York. The\u00a0World War II-era drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, was based on\u00a0a then-unproduced play\u00a0titled ‘Everybody Comes to Rick’s<\/em>‘\u00a0 by Murray Burnett\u00a0and\u00a0Joan Alison. Directed by Michael Curtiz, the movie had its first showing\u00a0at the Hollywood Theater in New York City. Over the next ten weeks, the film grossed $255,000 in that theater alone and went on to be released across the country on January 23, 1943. Although it was not a smashing success at the box-office initially, the film has grown in popularity over the years and has made a lasting impact on the Hollywood industry.<\/p>\n

2002:<\/strong> President George W. Bush issues a Presidential pardon to a turkey as part of an annual Thanksgiving tradition\u00a0 at the White House. In 1942, the\u00a0National Turkey Foundation first started a Thanksgiving tradition by presenting Thanksgiving turkeys (one live turkey and 2 dressed turkeys) to President Harry S. Truman. Mostly the Presidents would either eat the birds presented to them or in some cases they spared the bird’s life and donated the bird to various farms or places. However, in 1989 \u00a0President\u00a0George H. W. Bush (Sr.) first formally introduced the tradition of offering a turkey a Presidential pardon after which they were sent to a farm (initially the\u00a0Frying Pan Park\u00a0in\u00a0Fairfax County, Virginia, kept the birds but then they began sending them to Disneyland in California or to The Walt Disney World in Florida) to live out the rest of their days. The Turkeys are often named by a poll conducted of the general public through the White House’ website. The first female turkey named ‘Katie’ was pardoned by Bush Jr. on the 26th of November 2002 along with the alternate bird ‘Zack’.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On this day in history<\/a>, November 26th\u2026 1842: The University of Notre Dame was founded by Father Edward Sorin. \u00a0He also became the University’s first President. The University’s name “Notre Dame” is French for “Our Lady,” being a catholic school, the term “Our Lady” is a reference to the Virgin Mary. When the University was first founded, it was an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1404],"tags":[3135],"class_list":["post-16440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-this-day-in-history","tag-novemebr-26th"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16465,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440\/revisions\/16465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}