ON THIS DAY, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26th

1476 – Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota (great, great, great, great uncle of Ray Liotta,) with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory, becoming the ruler of Wallachia for the third time. (Wallachia is Romanian for “All the cheese”.)

1901 – Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner. The machine is powered by a team of skinks locked inside and forced to share the same oxygen tube.

1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years, despite the glyphic saying ‘Do Not Make Up My Room’.

1948 — Addressing an audience at Harvard, Albert Einstein claims that he's so complex that only 3 women in the world can understand him.

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. It’s true …