Today in History - History - November 26th

1941Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro

1688French King Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands

19901st Billboard Music Awards: M.C. Hammer & Janet Jackson win

1980Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP

2013Due to a street tirade captured on video, Alec Baldwin's show "Up Late with Alec Baldwin" is cancelled after only five episodes

1995Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass

1476vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.

1990Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait

1922English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt

1859Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical All the Year Round

1922Charles M. Schulz, Minneapolis MN, cartoonist (Peanuts), (d. 2000)

1939Tina Turner, [Anna Mae Bullock], Brownsville Tx, singer (Proud Mary)

1933Robert Goulet, Lawrence, Massachusetts, American singer and actor (d. 2007)

1898Karl Ziegler, Helsa, German Empire, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (polymers), (d. 1973)

1977Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (53) weds businessman Arthur Hardwick Jr at the Sheraton Inn in Cheektowaga, New York

1981Legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (55) weds "Sounder" actress Cicely Tyson (47) at the home of actor Bill Cosby

1924Comic actor Charlie Chaplin (35) weds "The Kid" actress Lita Grey (16) in Mexico

1962Singer Tina Turner (23) weds Ike Turner (31) in Tijuana, Mexico

1993Political strategist for President Clinton's campaign and political commentator James Carville (49) weds Republican political pundit Mary Matalin (40) in New Orleans, Louisiana

1958Model Bettie Page (35) weds Armond Walterson in Florida

1883Sojourner Truth, US abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96

2004Philippe de Broca, French film director (Le Bossu) dies aged 71