November 26

Events:

• 1778 - Captain James Cook discovers Maui
• 1862 - Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell
• 1934 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of King Tutankhamun
• 1941 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt establishes the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
• 1941 - Lebanon gains independence from France
• 1950 - China sends troops to North Korea
• 1965 - France launches first satellite

Births:

• 1607 - John Harvard, cleric (+ 1638)
• 1792 - Sarah Grimke[?], abolitionist, feminist (+ 1873)
• 1832 - Mary Edwards Walker[?], feminist, physician (+ 1919)
• 1876 - Willis Carrier[?], engineer, inventor (+ 1950)
• 1885 - Heinrich Brüning, German Reichskanzler[?] 1930-1932 (+ 1970)
• 1894 - Norbert Wiener, mathematician, founder of Cybernetics (+ 1964)
• 1910 - Cyril Cusack[?], actor (+ [1993]])
• 1912 - Eugène Ionesco, playwright (+ 1994)
• 1912 - Eric Sevareid[?], journalist (+ 1992)
• 1922 - Charles Schulz, cartoonist (+ 2000)
• 1924 - George Segal[?], sculptor
• 1927 - Jean-Pierre Daras[?], actor (+ 1999)
• 1933 - Robert Goulet[?], singer, actor
• 1934 - Barry Coe[?], actor
• 1937 - Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut
• 1938 - Rich Little[?], comedian, actor
• 1939 - Tina Turner, singer, actress
• 1943 - Bruce Paltrow, producer, director (+ 2002)
• 1951 - Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, pornographic film actress, politician
• 1959 - Jamie Rose[?], actress

Deaths:

• 1252 - Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France
• 1836 - John MacAdam, road builder
• 1956 - Tommy Dorsey, Big Band leader
• 1963 - Amelita Galli-Curci[?], opera singer
• 1980 - Peter DePaolo[?], automobile racer
• 1986 - Scatman Crothers, actor, singer, musician
• 1996 - Michael Bentine, comedian
• 2002 - Verne Winchell, founder of Winchell's Donuts[?].

Holidays and Observances:

• Bahá'í Faith:Day of the Covenant

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