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• Today's Highlight in History:
• November 26, 1789 was a day of thanksgiving set aside by President Washington to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
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• On this date:
• In 1825, the first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
• In 1883, former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan.
• In 1933, a judge in New York decided the James Joyce book "Ulysses" was not obscene and could therefore be published in the United States.
• In 1941, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a note to Japan's ambassador to the United States, Kichisaburo Nomura (kee-chee-sah-boor-oh noh-moo-rah), proposing an agreement for "lasting and extensive peace throughout the Pacific area." The same day, a Japanese naval task force consisting of six aircraft carriers left the Kuril Islands, headed toward Hawaii.
• In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning December 1st.
• In 1942, the motion picture "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York.
• In 1943, during World War II, the HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying American soldiers, was hit by a German missile off Algeria; 1,138 men were killed.
• In 1949, India adopted a constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth.
• In 1950, China entered the Korean War, launching a counter-offensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the U.S. and South Korea.
• In 1965, France launched its first satellite, sending a 92-pound capsule into orbit.
• In 1973, President Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she'd accidentally caused part of the 18-1/2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.
• In 1986, President Ronald Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Senator John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair.
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• Ten years ago: Human rights activist Gao Zhan, who was freed from a Chinese prison after the U.S. government interceded on her behalf, pleaded guilty in Alexandria, Va., to illegally selling American high-tech items with potential military uses to

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