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