November
26
Events
November
26
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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