Joan Maynard
Joan Maynard
Historian
Weeksville Historical Society
Brooklyn, New York
Head of the Weeksville Historical Society in Brooklyn, New York
January 17, 2026
World History
This Day In History
- Maria Corina Machado Is 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Winner by Jon Haworth
- Israel & Hamas Agree To Phase 1 by Christian Edwards
- Hamas Says Agreement Have Been Reached by Edna Mohamed and Urooba Jamal
- Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee by Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, Jeremy Herb, Devan Cole and Casey Gannon, CNN
- Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 by Brooks Barnes
- China to Stage a Show of Force with Grand Military Parade attended by Putin and Kim Jong Un by Jennifer Jett and Janis Mackey Frayer, NBC News
- Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
- Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
- Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
- Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
