November 26
is the 330th day (331st on
leap years) of the year in the
Gregorian calendar. There are 35 days remaining.
*
43 BC-The
Second Triumvirate alliance of
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"),
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and
Mark Antony is formed.
*
783 - The
Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from
Mauregatus.
*
1778 - In the
Hawaiian Islands, Captain
James Cook becomes the first European to visit
Maui.
*
1805 - Official opening of
Thomas Telford's
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
*
1825 - At
Union College in
Schenectady, New York a group of college students form
Kappa Alpha Society, the first
college social
fraternity.
*
1862 - Charles Dodgson (AKA
Lewis Carroll) sends the handwritten manuscript of
Alice's Adventures Underground to 10-year-old
Alice Liddell.
*
1863 -
American Civil War:
Mine Run -
Union forces under General
George Meade position against troops led by
Confederate General
Robert E. Lee.
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1865 -
Battle of Papudo: The
Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
*
1917 - The
National Hockey League is formed, with the
Montreal Canadiens,
Montreal Wanderers,
Ottawa Senators,
Quebec Bulldogs, and
Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
*
1918 - The
Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of
Serbia *
1922 -
Howard Carter and
Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of
Egyptian King
Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
* 1922 -
Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release
film to use two-tone
Technicolor (
The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).
*
1939 -
Shelling of Mainila: The
Soviet Army orchestrates the incident which is used to justify the start of the
Winter War with
Finland four days later.
*
1941 - US President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth
Thursday in
November as
Thanksgiving Day in the
United States.
* 1941 -
World War II:
Attack on Pearl Harbor - A fleet of six
aircraft carriers commanded by
Japanese Vice Admiral
Chuichi Nagumo leaves
Hitokapu Bay for
Pearl Harbor under strict
radio silence.
* 1941 - World War II: The
Hull note ultimatum is delivered to Japan by the United States.
*
1942 - The film
Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theater in
New York City.
* 1942 - World War II:
Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the
Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at
Bihać in northwestern
Bosnia.
*
1949 - The
Indian Constituent Assembly adopts
India's
constitution.
*
1950 -
Korean War: Troops from the
People's Republic of China move into
North Korea and launch a massive counterattack against
South Korean and
American forces (
Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
*
1965 - In the
Hammaguira launch facility in the
Sahara Desert,
France launches a
Diamant-A rocket with its first
satellite,
Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter
space.
*
1968 -
Vietnam War:
United States Air Force helicopter pilot
James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by
Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the
Medal of Honor.
* 1968 - British rock band
Cream play their farewell concert at the
Royal Albert Hall.
*
1970 - In
Basse-Terre,
Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of
rain fall in a minute, the heaviest
rainfall ever on record.
*
1976 -
The Band play their final concert, dubbed
The Last Waltz. One of the guest performers is
Eric Clapton, whose band
Cream also played their farewell concert on November 26, 8 years earlier.
*
1977 - '
Vrillon', representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over
Britain's Southern Television for five minutes at 5:12 PM.
*
1983 -
Brinks Mat robbery: In
London, 6,800
gold bars worth nearly £26 million are taken from the Brinks Mat vault at
Heathrow Airport *
1985 - US President
Ronald Reagan signs over rights to his
autobiography to
Random House for a record US$3 million.
*
1986 -
Iran-Contra scandal: US President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the
Tower Commission.
* 1986 -
The New Yorker publishes
Susan Sontag's
AIDS short story, "
The Way We Live Now"
*
1998 -
Tony Blair becomes the first
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the
Republic of Ireland's parliament.
*
2003 -
Concorde makes its last ever flight over
Bristol,
UK.
*
1288 -
Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d.
1339)
*
1436 - Princess
Catherine of Portugal, writer (d.
1463)
*
1607 -
John Harvard, English-born clergyman (d.
1638)
*
1609 -
Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d.
1659)
*
1657 -
William Derham, English minister and writer (d.
1735)
*
1678 -
Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d.
1771)
*
1703 -
Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d.
1758)
*
1792 -
Sarah Grimke, American abolitionist and feminist (d.
1873)
*
1828 -
René Goblet, French politician (d.
1905)
*
1832 -
Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d.
1919)
* 1832 -
Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d.
1901)
*
1847 -
Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d.
1928)
*
1857 -
Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d.
1913)
*
1864 -
Edward Higgins, the 3rd General of
The Salvation Army (d.
1947)
*
1869 -
Maud, Queen of Norway (d.
1938)
*
1876 -
Willis Carrier, American engineer and inventor (d.
1950)
*
1877 -
Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d.
1962)
*
1885 -
Heinrich Brüning,
Chancellor of Germany (d.
1970)
*
1889 -
Albert Dieudonné, French actor, screenwriter and novelist (d.
1976)
*
1894 -
Norbert Wiener, American mathematician and founder of Cybernetics (d.
1964)
*
1898 -
Karl Ziegler, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laurete (d.
1973)
*
1899 -
Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of
Charles Lindbergh III (d.
1936)
*
1905 -
Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d.
1982)
*
1908 -
Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d.
1989)
*
1910 -
Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d.
1993)
*
1912 -
Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d.
1992)
*
1915 -
Earl Wild, American pianist
*
1922 -
Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d.
2000)
*
1924 -
George Segal, American Pop Sculptor (d.
2000)
*
1925 -
Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d.
2003)
*
1927 -
Ernie Coombs, American children's entertainer (d.
2001)
*
1931 -
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize* 1931 -
Adrianus Johannes Cardinal Simonis,
Archbishop of Utrecht*
1933 -
Robert Goulet, American singer and actor
*
1937 -
Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut
*
1938 -
Porter J. Goss, American politician and Central Intelligence Agency director
* 1938 -
Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
* 1938 -
Rich Little, Canadian comedian and actor
*
1939 -
Tina Turner, American singer and actress
* 1939 -
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia
*
1943 -
Bruce Paltrow, American producer and director (d.
2002)
*
1945 -
Daniel Davis, American actor
* 1945 -
John McVie, British musician (
Fleetwood Mac)
*
1946 -
Art Shell, American football player and coach
*
1947 -
Susanne Zenor, American actress
*
1948 -
Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (d.
1995)
* 1948 -
Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
* 1948 -
Claes Elfsberg, Swedish television presenter
*
1949 -
Vincent A. Mahler, Political Scientist and professor at
Loyola University Chicago* 1949 -
Juanin Clay, American actress (d.
1995)
*
1951 -
Cicciolina, Italian actress and politician
*
1953 -
Harry Carson, American football player
*
1956 -
Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
*
1960 -
Harold Reynolds, American baseball player
*
1962 -
Chuck Finley, American baseball
pitcher*
1964 -
Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier
*
1969 -
Shawn Kemp, American basketball player
*
1970 -
Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
* 1970 -
Alex Taylor, Latin porn star
*
1971 -
Ronald "Winky" Wright, American boxer
*
1972 -
Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
*
1973 -
Peter Facinelli, American actor
*
1976 -
Maven Huffman, American professional wrestler
* 1976 -
Brian Schneider, Baseball player
*
1977 -
Ivan Basso, Italian professional road bicycle racer
*
1980 -
Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor
*
1981 -
Stephan Andersen,
Danish international footballer
* 1981 -
Natasha Bedingfield, British singer
* 1981 -
Aurora Snow, American actress
*
1985 -
Lil' Fizz, American singer
*
399 - Pope
Siricius*
1252 -
Blanche of Castile, Queen of
Louis VIII of France (b.
1188)
*
1326 -
Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (b.
1286)
*
1504 - Queen
Isabella I of Castile (b.
1451)
*
1621 -
Radulph Agas, English surveyor
*
1639 -
John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (b.
1565)
*
1651 -
Henry Ireton, English Civil War general (b.
1611)
*
1686 -
Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (b.
1638)
*
1688 -
Philippe Quinault, French writer (b.
1635)
*
1689 -
Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (b.
1635)
*
1717 -
Daniel Purcell, British composer (b.
1664)
*
1719 -
John Hudson, British classical scholar (b.
1662)
*
1780 - Sir
James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (b.
1712)
*
1836 -
John MacAdam, British road builder (b.
1756)
*
1851 -
Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (b.
1769)
*
1855 -
Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (b.
1798)
*
1857 -
Joseph von Eichendorff, German poet (b.
1788)
*
1876 -
Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (b.
1792)
*
1885 -
Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (b.
1813)
*
1896 -
Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (b.
1818)
* 1896 -
Coventry Patmore, British poet (b.
1823)
*
1934 -
Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b.
1866)
*
1941 -
Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b.
1861)
*
1952 -
Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b.
1865)
*
1954 -
Bill Doak, baseball player (b.
1891)
*
1956 -
Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (b.
1905)
*
1959 -
Albert Ketèlbey, British composer (b.
1875)
*
1962 -
Albert Sarraut, French politician (b.
1872)
*
1963 -
Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (b.
1882)
*
1981 -
Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b.
1901)
*
1996 -
Michael Bentine, British comedian (b.
1922)
*
1998 -
Jonathan Kwitny, American
investigative reporter (b.
1941)
*
2002 -
Verne Winchell, American doughnut entrepreneur
*
2003 -
Soulja Slim, American rapper (shot) (b.
1978)
* 2003 -
Stefan Wul, French writer (b.
1922)
*
2005 -
Stan Berenstain, children's author (b.
1923)
*
R.C. saints -
Pope Siricius; celebration of the excellence of Saint
Genevieve in Paris.
* Also see
November 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*
Bahá'í Faith: Day of the Covenant
*
Mongolia:
Independence Day*
Russia:
St. Yuri's Day (1497 - 1649)
*
BBC: On This Day*
World :
Buy Nothing DayNovember 25 -
November 27 -
October 26 -
December 26 --
listing of all days
