What happened on 26 November?

5 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1942 Casablanca Curtiz's wartime romance with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
2. 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll's children's classic; surreal humour and wordplay; gives English 'rabbit hole' and 'mad as a hatter'.
3. 1812 Crossing of the Berezina Last desperate phase of the Russian retreat; Napoleon's army crosses the Berezina under attack; iconic image of the disaster.
4. 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba gunmen attack hotels and stations across Mumbai, killing 175.
5. 1945 Pippi Longstocking published Astrid Lindgren's superhumanly strong, gloriously unsupervised heroine upends children's literature — and becomes the world's most translated Swede.