November 26
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Art and culture
- 1862 - Charles Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll) sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.
- 1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
- 1942 - The film Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
Births
- 1857 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
- 1909 - Eugène Ionesco, French playwright (d. 1994)
- 1924 - George Segal, American Pop Sculptor (d. 2000)
- 1951 - Cicciolina, Italian porno actress and politician
- 1976 - Anarchy in the U.K. first single by Sex Pistols released.
Deaths
- 2003 - Stefan Wul, French writer (b. 1922)
Notes
- 1966 - Siegfried Kracauer (February 8, 1889, Frankfurt am Main, Germany – November 26, 1966, New York) was a German-American writer, journalist, sociologist, (b. 1922)
- 1911 - Paul Lafargue (June 16, 1842 – November 26, 1911) was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law, having married his second daughter Laura. His best known work is The Right to Be Lazy. (b. 1922)
- 1944 - Karin Schubert (born November 26, 1944 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German actress. She appeared in film roles in the 1970s before becoming a pornographic actress in the 1980s.
- 1979 - Marcel L'Herbier, French writer, producer and director (b. 1888 or 1890)
- 1919 - Octave Maus, Belgian art critic, writer, and lawyer. (b. 1856)
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