Today in History: November 26, President Nixon’s secretary says she caused Watergate tape gap
In the current era is Wednesday Nov the th day of There are days left in the year Nowadays in history On Nov President Richard Nixon s personal secretary Rose Mary Woods described a federal court she d accidentally caused part of the -minute erasure of a key Watergate tape The gap was in a recording of a conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff Also on this date In 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 and Attorney General Edmund Randolph Related Articles Campbell s IT chief on leave after lawsuit suggests he commented company s food is for poor people FBI seeks interviews with Colorado Rep Jason Crow other Democrats who urged U S troops to defy illegal orders Various DACA recipients have been arrested in the Trump s immigration crackdown New limits for a rent algorithm that prosecutors say let landlords drive up prices More people are addicted to marijuana but fewer of them are seeking help experts say In English mathematician Charles Dodgson presented the illustrated manuscript Alice s Adventures Under Ground to his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell a book later published under the pen name Lewis Carroll as Alice s Adventures in Wonderland In the National Hockey League was founded in Montreal succeeding the National Hockey Association In 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 the film Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City In two trains collided in the northern town of Khanna India killing people in one of that country s deadliest rail disasters In Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified Republican George W Bush the winner over Democrat Al Gore in the state s presidential balloting by a -vote margin The U S Supreme Court ultimately stopped recounts of the vote and Bush won Florida s electoral votes and the presidential polling In teams of heavily armed militants from the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba stormed luxury hotels a popular restaurant and a crowded train station in Mumbai India leaving at least people dead including nine of the attackers in a rampage spanning four days In a rocket carrying NASA s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover lifted off from Cape Canaveral Florida In a -magnitude earthquake struck Albania killing at least people injuring particular others and leaving at least homeless Nowadays s Birthdays Impressionist Rich Little is Football Hall of Famer Jan Stenerud is Author Marilynne Robinson is Bass guitarist John McVie Fleetwood Mac is Football Hall of Famer Art Shell is Sen Shelley Moore Capito R-W Va is Football Hall of Famer Harry Carson is NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett is Country singer Linda Davis is Actor-TV personality Garcelle Beauvais is Actor Peter Facinelli is DJ-music producer DJ Khaled KAL -ehd is Country musician Joe Nichols is Pop singer Natasha Bedingfield is Actor-singer-TV personality Rita Ora is
