"Today in history: On Nov. 26, 1973, President Richard Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court she'd accidentally caused part of the 18 1/2-minute erasure of a key Watergate tape. The gap was in a 1972 recording of a conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff. Also on this date: In 1791, President George Washington held his first full cabinet meeting; in attendance were Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox"
"In 1941, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a note to Japan's ambassador to the United States, Kichisaburo Nomura, setting forth U.S. demands for lasting and extensive peace throughout the Pacific area. The same day, a Japanese naval task force of six aircraft carriers left the Kuril Islands, bound for Hawaii, days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1942, the film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City."
Nov. 26 records political, cultural, sporting and tragic events across history. On Nov. 26, 1973 Rose Mary Woods testified she accidentally caused part of an 18 1/2-minute erasure in a 1972 recording of a conversation between President Nixon and his chief of staff. In 1791 President George Washington held his first full cabinet meeting with Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox and Edmund Randolph attending. In 1864 Charles Dodgson presented Alice's Adventures Under Ground to Alice Liddell. The National Hockey League was founded in Montreal in 1917. In 1941 Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered U.S. demands to Japan while a Japanese carrier task force departed for Hawaii days before Pearl Harbor. In 1942 Casablanca premiered in New York. In 1998 two trains collided in Khanna, India, killing 210 people. In 2000 Florida certified George W. Bush the winner by 537 votes and the U.S. Supreme Court stopped recounts.
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