THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Today is Thursday, November 26, the 330th day of 2009. There are 35 days left in the year.

1778 _ Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)

1789 _ First national thanksgiving

1865 _ Alice in Wonderland published

1924 _ Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed

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"

1982 _ Yasuhiro Nakasone elected P.M. of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki

1990 _ Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion

1990 _ Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait