November 26 - Supper Time

Supper Time

This Day In History

1476

Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.

1778

In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.

1789

A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.

1842

The University of Notre Dame is founded.

1922

Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor.

1965

In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.

1970

In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.

2003

Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.

Famous Birthdays

1678

Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist, astronomer and chronobiologist (d. 1771)

1731

William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)

1853

Bat Masterson, buffalo hunter, U.S. Marshal, Army scout, avid fisherman, gambler, frontier lawman, and sports editor and columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph (d. 1921)

1858

Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic Saint (d. 1955)

1876

Willis Carrier, American engineer and inventor (d. 1950)

1902

Maurice McDonald, American fast food pioneer (d. 1971)

1919

Frederik Pohl, American science fiction writer

1922

Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)

1924

George Segal, American Pop Sculptor (d. 2000)

1933

Robert Goulet, American singer and actor (d. 2007)

1955

Tracy Hickman, American fantasy author

1973

Kristin Bauer van Straten, American actress