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On Nov. 25, 1990, following a severe thunderstorm on Thanksgiving Day, Washington State’s historic Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge broke apart and sank to the bottom of Lake Washington. Its disintegration was slow enough for news crews to capture the entire event on camera and broadcast it to a fascinated audience throughout western Washington.- Nov. 26, 1864, Oxford mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known to us today by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, sent a handwritten manuscript called “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” to 12-year-old Alice Liddell. One of the earliest stories written solely to amuse rather than teach children, it became a beloved and much-adapted classic and is still the author’s best-known work.
- On Nov. 27, 2005, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, along with rapper 50 Cent and other notable music celebs, took to the stage as featured performers in New York City’s Rainbow Room at the $10 million bat mitzvah of 13-year-old Elizabeth Brooks.
- On Nov. 28, 1582, 18-year-old William Shakespeare and 26-year-old Anne Hathaway paid a 40-pound bond for their marriage license in Stratford-upon-Avon. Their first child, daughter Susanna, followed six months later.
- On Nov. 29, 1942, coffee was added to the list of rationed items in the U.S. in spite of its record production in Latin American countries, due to high demand for the bean as well as shipping needed for other purposes.
- On Nov. 30, 1954, a 7-inch meteorite weighing eight and a half pounds crashed through the roof of Elizabeth Hodges’s house in Sylacauga, Alabama, bounced off a radio, and struck her hip as she slept on her living room sofa. Although badly bruised on her hip and leg, she was not permanently injured.
- On Dec. 1, 2020, South Korea, which normally requires its men to enlist in the military by the time they turn 28, passed a law to defer such service until age 30 for K-pop stars who have “elevated the country’s cultural influence around the world.”
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