Today in History, 11/26

1476: Vlad "The Impaler" 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. I bet he relaxed afterwards by having somebody impaled. 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.
1910: Cyril Cusack is born. He was in dozens of movies, but I remember him as the duplicitous Charrington in the 1984 version of Nineteen Eighty Four.
1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
1922: Charles M. Schulz is born.1933: Robert Goulet is born.

1938: Rich Little is born.

1939: Tina Turner is born.

1942: President Roosevelt orders nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning December 1
The A sticker is lowest priority and gets you 3-4 gallons a week. Yikes!
The B sticker was issued to workers in war-related industry. They got 8 gallons a week.
C stickers were given to those deemed "essential" to the war effort, like doctors.
T stickers were for truckers.
Finally the S (or sometimes X) sticker was for high priority people like police and civil defense workers. They got unlimited supplies. A minor scandal broke out when 200 Congressmen mysteriously wound up with X stickers. 1942: Casablanca has its world premiere in New York City.

Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up.