November 26th, 1950, China, under its new communist leader Mao Zedong, enters the Korean War on the side of neighbor and communist ally North Korea. Chinese troops launch a counteroffensive against the American-led force under the UN banner and troops from non-communist South Korea.

1940, during World War Ⅱ, the Nazis force the half million Jews of Warsaw in what’s then German occupied Poland to live within a walled ghetto.

1973, President Richard Nixon’s secretary tries to explain what happen to a key White House tape related to the Watergate scandal. Rose Marry Woods tells the federal court: She accidentally caused part of the 18-and-a-half-minute gap on the tape.

1942, “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” In New York, the movie Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres at the Hollywood Theater.

And 1939, singer Tina Turner’s born Anna Mae Bullock, in Brownsville, Tennessee.

Today in History. November 26th. Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.

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