Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be Richard, Duke of York (one of the "Princes in the Tower"), is hanged for his role in conspiracies against King Henry VII.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, gives Alice the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, dedicating it as "A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day" and with illustrations by Carroll.
The published version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is about twice the length of Alice's Adventures Under Ground and includes episodes, such as the Mad Tea-Party, that did not appear in the manuscript and all 42 wood-engraved illustrations are by John Tenniel. The only known manuscript copy of Under Ground is held in the British Library. Macmillan published a facsimile of the manuscript in 1886.
Twenty two days after British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun (King Tut) the excavators reached another sealed doorway on November 26, 1922 and opened the antechamber, the first of four chambers which was filled with treasures.
As the event is recalled in Carters book, when Carter peered into a hole in the door, he famously replied to Lord Carnarvon's anxious question, "Yes, wonderful things". The discovery of the largely intact burial site full of treasures and artifacts, became a worldwide sensation.
Almost three months later, on February 16, 1923, after clearing the outer chambers, Carter and Lord Carnarvon opened the sealed door to the burial chamber, the final and most important chamber of the tomb.
The Polaroid Land Camera Model 95 was introduced on November 26, 1948. Invented by Edwin H. Land, it was the first to offer a one-step process that produced a finished photograph in about a minute, and it sold out almost immediately. It was sold to the public at a Boston department store, costing $89.75, becoming available for purchase the day after Thanksgiving, 1948
. It was a revolutionary instant camera producing a sepia-toned print in about a minute after the photo was taken. The initial demand was so high that the first 60 units were sold out on the first day, leading to immediate rationing.
A series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Mumbai by 10 men from the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist group begin on November 26, 2008, targeting multiple locations, including the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, the Oberoi Trident hotel, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus train station, and the Nariman House Jewish center, resulting in 164 deaths and over 300 injuries.
The attacks concluded after three days, with nine of the terrorists killed during the operation. The sole surviving terrorist, Ajmal Kasab, was captured, put on trial, and later executed in November 2012.