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 an American-led force under the U.N. banner - and troops from noncommunist South Korea.

1940:

During World War Two, the Nazis force the half a 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 happened to a key White House tape related to the Watergate scandal.

Rose Mary Woods tells a federal court that she accidentally caused part of the 18-and-a-half minute gap on the tape.

1942:

In New York, the movie "Casablanca" - starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman - premieres at the Hollywood Theater.

And, 1939:

Singer Tina Turner is born Anna Mae Bullock in Brownsville, Tennessee.

Today in History, November 26th --- ___ ___, The Associated Press.