Today is Friday, Nov. 26, the 330th day of 2010. There are 35 days left in the year.

On this date:

In 1789, this was a day of thanksgiving set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.

In 1825, the first college social fraternity, the Kappa Alpha Society, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.

In 1842, the founders of the University of Notre Dame arrived at the school's present-day site near South Bend, Ind.

In 1910, two dozen young women were killed when fire broke out at a muslin factory in Newark, N.J.

In 1933, a judge in New York decided the James Joyce book "Ulysses" was not obscene and could be published in the United States.

In 1943, during the Second World War, 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 counteroffensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the US and South Korea.

In 1965, France launched its first satellite, sending a 92-pound capsule into orbit.

In 1973, President Richard Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she'd accidentally caused part of the 18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape.

In 2008, teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in Mumbai, India, leaving at least 166 people dead in a rampage lasting some 60 hours.

Thought for Today:

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." — Attributed to Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German socialist leader (1870-1919).