Historical Events on November 26, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on November 26th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2019 | A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes western Albania leaving at least 52 people dead and over 1000 injured. This was the world's deadliest earthquake of 2019, and the deadliest to strike the country in 99 years. |
| 2018 | The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars. |
| 2011 | NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani check post in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others. |
| 2011 | The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover. |
| 2008 | Mumbai attacks, a series of terrorist attacks killing approximately 166 citizens by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based extremist Islamist terrorist organisation. |
| 2008 | The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, now out of service, docks in Dubai. |
| 2004 | Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China. |
| 2004 | The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct. |
| 2003 | The Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England. |
| 2000 | George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote. |
| 1999 | The 7.5 Mw Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured. |
| 1998 | Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland. |
| 1998 | The Khanna rail disaster takes 212 lives in Khanna, Ludhiana, India. |
| 1991 | National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names. |
| 1986 | Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission. |
| 1986 | The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem. |
| 1983 | Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport. |
| 1979 | Pakistan International Airlines Flight 740 crashes near King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 156 people on board. |
| 1977 | An unidentified hijacker named Vrillon, claiming to be the representative of the "Ashtar Galactic Command", takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm. |
| 1970 | In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 38 millimetres (1.5 in) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded. |
| 1968 | Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor. |
| 1965 | France launches Astérix, becoming the third nation to put an object in orbit using its own booster. |
| 1950 | Korean War: People's Volunteer Army troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict. |
| 1949 | The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. |
| 1944 | World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in London, United Kingdom, killing 168 people. |
| 1944 | World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium. |
| 1943 | World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria. |
| 1942 | World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia. |
| 1942 | Casablanca, the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City. |
| 1941 | World War II: The Hull note is given to the Japanese ambassador, demanding that Japan withdraw from China and French Indochina, in return for which the United States would lift economic sanctions. On the same day, Japan's 1st Air Fleet departs Hitokappu Bay for Hawaii. |
| 1939 | Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates an incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later. |
| 1924 | The Mongolian People's Republic is officially established after a new constitution, passed by the first State Great Khural, abolishes the monarchy. |
| 1922 | Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. |
| 1922 | The 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.) |
| 1918 | The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia. |
| 1917 | The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France. |
| 1917 | The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams. |
| 1914 | HMS Bulwark is destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness. |
| 1865 | Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile. |
| 1863 | United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Following the Franksgiving controversy from 1939 to 1941, it has been observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and subsequent years. |
| 1852 | An earthquake as high as magnitude 8.8 rocks the Banda Sea, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 60 in the Dutch East Indies. |
| 1812 | The Battle of Berezina begins during Napoleon's retreat from Russia. |
| 1805 | Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. |
| 1789 | A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress. |
| 1778 | In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui. |
| 1476 | Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time. |
| 1161 | Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars. |
| 783 | The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her king from retaking the throne from Mauregatus. |
Famous People Born on November 26
Here is a random list who born on November 26. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1939 | John Gummer, English politician, Secretary of State for the Environment |
| 1990 | Rita Ora, Kosovan-English singer-songwriter and actress |
| 1990 | Avery Bradley, American basketball player |
| 1931 | Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Dutch cardinal (d. 2020) |
| 1980 | Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer |
| 1988 | Blake Harnage, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1594 | James Ware, Irish genealogist (d. 1666) |
| 1956 | Dale Jarrett, American race car driver and sportscaster |
| 1873 | Fred Herd, Scottish golfer (d. 1954) |
| 1963 | Mario Elie, American basketball player and coach |
Famous People Deaths On November 26
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on November 26. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1780 | James Steuart, Scottish economist (b. 1712) |
| 1719 | John Hudson, English librarian and scholar (b. 1662) |
| 1267 | Sylvester Gozzolini, Italian founder of the Sylvestrines (b. 1177) |
| 1639 | John Spottiswoode, Scottish archbishop and theologian (b. 1565) |
| 2012 | Celso Advento Castillo, Filipino actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1943) |
| 2018 | Stephen Hillenburg, American animator, voice actor, and marine science educator (b. 1961) |
| 1997 | Marguerite Henry, American author (b. 1902) |
| 1991 | Ed Heinemann, American engineer (b. 1908) |
| 1860 | Benjamin Greene, English brewer, founded Greene King (b. 1780) |
| 1892 | Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal and academic (b. 1825) |
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