November 26th

November 26  is the 331st day of the year.  There are 35 days remaining until the end of the year.

1778 In the Hawaiian [Sandwich] Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.

1896 Amos Alonzo Stagg of University of  Chicago creates football huddle

1917 The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.

1922 Looking for some privacy, lovers Howard Carter (L) and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.

1942 "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, New York City, and Ted’s got it covered!

1955 "The Boy Friend" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 483 performances...Boys can be so fickle

1969 Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon. To date, this remains the only lottery I have won, but there is a lot less group nudity than I expected.  FML!

1973 Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods invents Zumba when she  tells a federal court how she may have accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape

1977 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.

1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York High School students as Thanksgiving presents

2003 Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.

2008 Terrorist attacks in Mumbai [Bombay], India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists and pigeons kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.

1905 [George] Emlyn Williams, bisexual Welsh dramatist/actor (Night Must Fall, The Corn is Green) 

1939 Wayland Flowers, gay US performance artist/puppeteer/Madame is still around 

1966 Christopher Lance [Robert Lance Slacke], gay US pornographic actor  

1970 John Amaechi, gay US-born English NBA player who came out after retirement/psychologist 

1972 Adam Harrington, Canadian actor 

1973 Peter Facinelli, US actor 

1973 John Zimmerman, rare heterosexual US figure skater/model/Queeer Eye Makeover subject 

1974 Roman Šebrle, Czech decathlete 

1976 Jack Ryan, gay US pornographic actor 

1977 Sean Storm [Greg Reggio], gay US pornographic actor, receiving his birthday licks  

1979 Jason Sechrest, gay US personality/actor/writer 

1981 Diogo Amaral, maybe gay Portugese actor 

1983 Chris Hughes, sinfully wealthy, married, gay US co-founder of Facebook/developed social media strategy for President Obama’s campaigns 

1984 Gavyn Michaels [Michael Robert Garcia], US model/actor 

1836 John MacAdam, British road builder, gets black-topped (macadamized). [I can trace my scholarly fascination with public capital improvement investment from Mr. Brown’s 5th grade class on macadamization. Strange, but true.]

1943 Edward "Butch" O'Hare, STLMO-born US ace pilot, is terminal in Chicago

1994 Joey Stefano [Nicholas Anthony Iacona, Jr.], gay US pornographic actor, bottoms out butt good