Events
of the day
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.
1476 – Vlad III 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.
1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain
James Cook becomes the first European to
visit Maui.
1784 – The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture
of the United States established.
1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed
in the United States as recommended by President
George Washington and approved by Congress.
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.
1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1863 – President Abraham Lincoln proclaims
November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day,
to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday
of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).
1865 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy
Schooner is defeated by a Chilean Corvette
north of Valparaiso, Chile.
1909 – Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the
City College of New York by 8 Jewish young
men.
1913 – Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter
College in New York City.
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 Pharaoh 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 is the first film to do
so but it is 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.
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.
1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna sunk by the
Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean
north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket
hits a Woolworth's shop on New Cross High
Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.
1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1
and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
1949 – The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts
India's constitution presented by Dr. B.
R. Ambedkar.
1950 – Korean War: 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.
1965 – In the Hammaguir 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 outer 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.
1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches
(38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the
heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
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.
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.
1986 – Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President
Ronald Reagan announces the members of what
will become known as the Tower Commission.
1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden
flight.
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.
1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom to address
the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
2003 – Concorde makes its final flight,
over Bristol, England.
2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs
and kills eight people and seriously wounds
another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou,
China.
2004 – Male Po'ouli (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.
2008 – 2008 Mumbai attacks by Pakistan-sponsored
Lashkar-e-Taiba
2011 – 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO
forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani
checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing
24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Days:
John Berchmans
Pope Siricius
Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodoxy)
Sylvester Gozzolini
November 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the Covenant (Bahá'í Faith)
Earliest day on which Cyber Monday can fall,
while December 2 is the latest; observed
on the first Monday after Thanksgiving.
(United States)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Mongolia from China on July 11, 1921.
International Day of Cats
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