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November 26
November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 35 days remaining.
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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
See Also:
November 25 - November 27 - October 26 - December 26 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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