Monday, November 26, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY


NOVEMBER 26

1862: Charles Dodgson sends a handwritten manuscript entitled "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" as a Christmas present to 10-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of one of Dodgson's mathematician colleagues. Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Dodgson would publish the story of young Alice's adventures down a mysterious rabbit hole as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865. 


1922:Technicolor film is introduced with the release of "Toll of the Sea"


1922: British archaeologist Howard Carter and his patron, Lord Carnarvon, enter the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, where it had been preserved, untouched, for more than 3,300 years. 

 1942: Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star as Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund in Casablanca, which premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.


1842:The University of Notre Dame is founded.

1825:1st fraternity forms: Kappa Alpha Soc.


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