November 26

November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 35 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and Observances 5 See Also

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 - Eugčne 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
• 1988 - Nicole Allen, smart, 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
• 1996 - Michael Bentine, comedian
• 2002 - Verne Winchell, founder of Winchell's Donuts.
• 2002 - Wilhelm Bittorf, journalist

Holidays and Observances

• Bahá'í Faith: Day of the Covenant
• Mongolia : Independence Day

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See Also

November 25 - November 27 - October 26 - December 26 -- listing of all days

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