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

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Nov. 26, 1950, China entered the Korean War, launching a counteroffensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the U.S. and South Korea.

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 World War II, 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 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 18-1/2-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.

Ten years ago: Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner over Al Gore in the state’s presidential balloting by a 537-vote margin. Haiti held its presidential election; former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide (zhahn behr-TRAHN’ ahr-ihs-TEED’) won by a huge margin.

Five years ago: Four members of the Chicago-based aid group Christian Peacemaker Teams — an American, a Briton and two Canadians — were taken hostage in Iraq. (The American, Tom Fox, was later killed; the others were released.) Stan Berenstain, who with wife Jan wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bear books, died in suburban Philadelphia at age 82.

One year ago: An investigation ordered by Ireland’s government found that Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin had spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and that most fellow clerics turned a blind eye. A man stuck upside-down in a cave in Utah for more than a day died despite the efforts of dozens of rescuers.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Ellen Albertini Dow is 92. Impressionist Rich Little is 72. Singer Tina Turner is 71. Singer Jean Terrell is 66. Pop musician John McVie is 65. Actress Marianne Muellerleile is 62. Actor Scott Jacoby is 54. Actress Jamie Rose is 51. Country singer Linda Davis is 48. Blues singer-musician Bernard Allison is 45. Country singer-musician Steve Grisaffe is 45. Actress Kristin Bauer is 37. Actor Peter Facinelli is 37. Actress Tammy Lynn Michaels Etheridge is 36. Actress Maia (MY’-ah) Campbell is 34. Country singer Joe Nichols is 34. Contemporary Christian musicians Anthony and Randy Armstrong (Red) are 32. Actress Jessica Bowman is 30. Pop singer Natasha Bedingfield is 29. Rock musician Ben Wysocki (The Fray) is 26. Singer Lil Fizz is 25. Singer Aubrey Collins is 23.

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).