MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Today is Monday, November 26, the 330th day of 2007. There are 35 days left in the year.

579 _ Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic pope

1778 _ Capt. Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)

1789 _ The first national Thanksgiving

1865 _ ``Alice in Wonderland'' published

1868 _ The first baseball game played in enclosed field in San Francisco

1924 _ Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed

1940 _ Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in a walled ghetto

1941 _ Lebanon gains independence from France

1949 _ India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic

1950 _ China enters the Korean conflict, sends troops across the Yalu River

1982 _ Yasuhiro Nakasone elected prime minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki

1990 _ Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion

1990 _ Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait