On this day...

1703 Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships
1716 First lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)
1789 First national Thanksgiving
1793 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1825 First college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1832 First streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC
1865 Alice in Wonderland published
1868 First baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th & Folsom
1885 First meteor photograph
1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed
1896 First large indoor football game, U of Chic beats U of Michigan 7-6
1896 A.A. Stagg of University of Chicago creates the football huddle
1924 Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1940 Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto
1941 Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro
1941 Lebanon gains independence from France
1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes, killing 15 (Washington)
1949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1950 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
1965 France launches First satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
1966 First major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1973 Nixon's personal assistant, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1974 Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal)
1975 Federal jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
1978 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
1982 Clyde King named NY Yankee manager
1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1982 Howard Cosell calls his last fight after being disgusted by the Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
1983 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
1984 John W. Mercom, Jr., announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million
1990 Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students

Birthdays which occurred on November 26th:

1607 John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, major benefactor to Harvard University
1731 William Cowper, England, preromantic poet (His Task)
1792 Sarah Moore Grimk‚ American antislavery, women's rights advocate
1832 Mary Edwards Walker, US, doctor/women's rights leader
1857 Ferdinand de Saussure, Switzerland, linguist (Cours de Laguistique Gener le)
1876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment
1892 Joe Guyon, NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc)
1894 Norbert Wiener, US, mathematician/discovered cybernetics
1902 Alberto Morin, PR, actor (Armando-Dallas)
1905 Emlyn Williams, Wales, actor/playwright (David Copperfield)
1907 Frances Dee, US actress (Of Human Bondage)
1910 Cyril Cusack, South Africa, actress (Day of the Jackal)
1912 Eric Sevareid, Velva ND, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1912 EugŠne Ionesco, France, dramatist (Rhinoceros)
1913 Foy Draper, US, relay runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1915 Earl Wild, pianist (Caesar's Hour, NBC Symph 1942)
1922 Adele Jergens, Brooklyn NY, actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man)
1922 Charles M Schulz, cartoonist (Peanuts)
1924 George Segal, NY, sculptor lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver)
1925 Eugene Istomin, NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award-1943)
1925 Linda Hunt, Morriston NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)
1927 John Carter, Center Ridge Arkansas, actor (Max-Falcon Crest)
1929 Betta St John, Hawthorne California, actress (Corridors of Blood)
1931 Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1933 Robert Goulet, Lawrence MA, singer/actor (Camelot, Naked Gun 2«)
1934 Ludmila Shevtsova, USSR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1935 Marian Mercer, Akron Ohio, actress/singer (Dean Martin Show)
1937 Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
1937 L‚o Lacroix, France, skier (Olympic-silver-1964)
1938 Rich Little, Ottawa Canada, impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop)
1938 Tina Turner, [Anna Mae Bullock], Brownsville Tx, singer (Proud Mary)
1942 Olivia Cole, Memphis Tennessee, actress (Roots, Szysznyk)
1943 Jan Stenerud, Norway, NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs)
1945 John McVie, rocker (Fleetwood Mac)
1945 Mikhail Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold/4 silver/bronze-1968)
1948 Galina Prozumenschikova, USSR, 200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1964)
1952 Wendy Turnbell, Australia, tennis player (1979,82 US Opens Double)
1959 Jamie Rose, NYC, actress (Susan Birch-St Elsewhere, Falcon Crest)
1961 Marcy Walker, actress (All My Children, Eden-Santa Barbara)
1963 Allyson Rice-Taylor, actress (Connor-As the World Turns)
1981 Jamie Fiske, liver transplant recipient

Deaths which occurred on November 26th:

1883 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist, women's rights advocate
1939 James Naismith, Basketball inventor
1970 B. O. Davis, Sr., First black general, dies at 93 in Chicago
1973 Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed
1980 Rachael Roberts, actress, dies at age 53
1982 Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at 73
1982 Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe), dies at 73
1985 Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of the Bride), dies at 87
1986 Scatman Crothers, actor (Louie-Chico & the Man), dies at 76