WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Today is Wednesday, November 26, the 331st day of 2008. There are 35 days left in the year.

1778 _ Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)

1789 _ First national thanksgiving

1865 _ Alice in Wonderland published

1885 _ First meteor photograph

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

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

1962 _ First recording session under the name ``Beatles"

1969 _ Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall)

1973 _ Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape

1991 _ Condoms are handed out to thousands of N.Y. High School students