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26th of November 0783 EVENT The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
26th of November 1476 EVENT 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.
26th of November 1778 EVENT In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
26th of November 1784 EVENT The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
26th of November 1789 EVENT A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
26th of November 1805 EVENT Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
26th of November 1825 EVENT At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
26th of November 1842 EVENT The University of Notre Dame is founded.
26th of November 1863 EVENT American Civil War: Mine Run : Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
26th of November 1863 EVENT President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26th as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).
26th of November 1865 EVENT Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
26th of November 1909 EVENT Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
26th of November 1913 EVENT Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
26th of November 1917 EVENT The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
26th of November 1918 EVENT The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
26th of November 1922 EVENT Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
26th of November 1922 EVENT 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).
26th of November 1939 EVENT 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.
26th of November 1942 EVENT World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihac in northwestern Bosnia.
26th of November 1944 EVENT World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
26th of November 1944 EVENT World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.
26th of November 1949 EVENT The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India's constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
26th of November 1950 EVENT 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.
26th of November 1965 EVENT 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.
26th of November 1968 EVENT 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.
26th of November 1970 EVENT In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
26th of November 1977 EVENT 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.
26th of November 1983 EVENT 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.
26th of November 1986 EVENT Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
26th of November 1990 EVENT The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
26th of November 1998 EVENT Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
26th of November 2003 EVENT Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
26th of November 2004 EVENT Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
26th of November 2004 EVENT 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.
26th of November 2008 EVENT The first of many attacks on Mumbai, India are fired. These ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 166 and injure more than 300 people in Mumbai.
26th of November 1288 BIRTHDAY Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
26th of November 1436 BIRTHDAY Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)
26th of November 1607 BIRTHDAY John Harvard, English-born clergyman (d. 1638)
26th of November 1609 BIRTHDAY Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
26th of November 1657 BIRTHDAY William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
26th of November 1678 BIRTHDAY Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)
26th of November 1703 BIRTHDAY Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
26th of November 1731 BIRTHDAY William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
26th of November 1792 BIRTHDAY Sarah Grimke, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
26th of November 1827 BIRTHDAY Ellen G. White, American leader of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church (d. 1915)
26th of November 1828 BIRTHDAY Robert Battey, American Surgeon (d. 1895)
26th of November 1828 BIRTHDAY Rene Goblet, French politician (d. 1905)
26th of November 1832 BIRTHDAY Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
26th of November 1832 BIRTHDAY Karl Rudolf Konig, German physicist (d. 1901)
26th of November 1847 BIRTHDAY Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
26th of November 1853 BIRTHDAY Bat Masterson, American Old West figure (d. 1921)
26th of November 1857 BIRTHDAY Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
26th of November 1858 BIRTHDAY Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic Saint (d. 1955)
26th of November 1864 BIRTHDAY Edward Higgins, 3rd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1947)
26th of November 1869 BIRTHDAY Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
26th of November 1876 BIRTHDAY Willis Carrier, American engineer and inventor (d. 1950)
26th of November 1878 BIRTHDAY Marshall Taylor, American cyclist (d. 1932)
26th of November 1879 BIRTHDAY Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian (d. 1950)
26th of November 1885 BIRTHDAY Heinrich Bruning, German politician (d. 1970)
26th of November 1889 BIRTHDAY Albert Dieudonne, French actor and novelist (d. 1976)
26th of November 1894 BIRTHDAY Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (d. 1964)
26th of November 1894 BIRTHDAY James Charles McGuigan, Catholic cardinal archbishop of Toronto (d. 1974)
26th of November 1895 BIRTHDAY Bill Wilson, American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
26th of November 1898 BIRTHDAY Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
26th of November 1899 BIRTHDAY Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
26th of November 1902 BIRTHDAY Maurice McDonald, American fast food pioneer (d. 1971)
26th of November 1904 BIRTHDAY Armand Frappier, French-Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)
26th of November 1905 BIRTHDAY Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
26th of November 1907 BIRTHDAY Ruth Patrick, American botanist
26th of November 1908 BIRTHDAY Charles Forte, Scottish hotelier (d. 2007)
26th of November 1908 BIRTHDAY Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d. 1989)
26th of November 1909 BIRTHDAY Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
26th of November 1909 BIRTHDAY Fritz Buchloh, German football player and coach (d. 1998)
26th of November 1909 BIRTHDAY Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright (d. 1994)
26th of November 1910 BIRTHDAY Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d. 1993)
26th of November 1912 BIRTHDAY Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
26th of November 1915 BIRTHDAY Earl Wild, American pianist (d. 2010)
26th of November 1918 BIRTHDAY Patricio Aylwin, former President of Chile
26th of November 1919 BIRTHDAY Frederik Pohl, American science fiction writer
26th of November 1920 BIRTHDAY Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (d. 2004)
26th of November 1922 BIRTHDAY Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
26th of November 1923 BIRTHDAY Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
26th of November 1924 BIRTHDAY George Segal, American Pop Sculptor (d. 2000)
26th of November 1925 BIRTHDAY Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
26th of November 1927 BIRTHDAY Ernie Coombs, American children's entertainer (d. 2001)
26th of November 1930 BIRTHDAY Berthold Leibinger, German Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
26th of November 1931 BIRTHDAY Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Cardinal Archbishop of Utrecht
26th of November 1931 BIRTHDAY Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
26th of November 1933 BIRTHDAY Robert Goulet, American singer and actor (d. 2007)
26th of November 1937 BIRTHDAY Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1994)
26th of November 1938 BIRTHDAY Porter J. Goss, American Central Intelligence Agency director
26th of November 1938 BIRTHDAY Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
26th of November 1938 BIRTHDAY Rich Little, Canadian comedian and actor
26th of November 1939 BIRTHDAY Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia
26th of November 1939 BIRTHDAY Tina Turner, American singer and actress
26th of November 1939 BIRTHDAY Wayland Flowers, American Puppeteer (d. 1988)
26th of November 1940 BIRTHDAY Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (d. 2007)
26th of November 1940 BIRTHDAY Enrico Bombieri, Italian mathematician
26th of November 1941 BIRTHDAY Susanne Marsee, American mezzo-soprano
26th of November 1942 BIRTHDAY Olivia Cole, American actress
26th of November 1942 BIRTHDAY Michael Devlin, American bass-baritone
26th of November 1943 BIRTHDAY Marilynne Robinson, American writer
26th of November 1943 BIRTHDAY Bruce Paltrow, American producer and director (d. 2002)
26th of November 1944 BIRTHDAY Jean Terrell, American singer (The Supremes)
26th of November 1945 BIRTHDAY Daniel Davis, American actor
26th of November 1945 BIRTHDAY John McVie, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
26th of November 1945 BIRTHDAY Bjorn von Sydow, Swedish politician
26th of November 1946 BIRTHDAY Art Shell, American football player and coach
26th of November 1947 BIRTHDAY Roger Wehrli, American football player
26th of November 1947 BIRTHDAY Susanne Zenor, American actress
26th of November 1948 BIRTHDAY Kresimir Cosic, Croatian basketball player (d. 1995)
26th of November 1948 BIRTHDAY Claes Elfsberg, Swedish television presenter
26th of November 1948 BIRTHDAY Marianne Muellerleile, American actress
26th of November 1949 BIRTHDAY Martin Lee, British singer (Brotherhood of Man)
26th of November 1949 BIRTHDAY Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
26th of November 1949 BIRTHDAY Vincent A. Mahler, American educator
26th of November 1949 BIRTHDAY Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
26th of November 1951 BIRTHDAY Cicciolina, Italian porno actress and politician
26th of November 1953 BIRTHDAY Hilary Benn, British politician
26th of November 1953 BIRTHDAY Harry Carson, American football player
26th of November 1954 BIRTHDAY Roz Chast, American cartoonist
26th of November 1954 BIRTHDAY Velupillai Prabhakaran, Leader of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Ceylon (d. 2009)
26th of November 1956 BIRTHDAY Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
26th of November 1956 BIRTHDAY Don Lake, Canadian television writer
26th of November 1956 BIRTHDAY Keith Vaz, British politician
26th of November 1960 BIRTHDAY Chuck Eddy, American music journalist
26th of November 1960 BIRTHDAY Harold Reynolds, American baseball player
26th of November 1961 BIRTHDAY Lisa Moretti, American professional wrestler
26th of November 1962 BIRTHDAY Chuck Finley, American baseball player
26th of November 1963 BIRTHDAY Adam Gaynor, American musician (Matchbox Twenty)
26th of November 1963 BIRTHDAY Mario Elie, American basketball player
26th of November 1964 BIRTHDAY Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier
26th of November 1965 BIRTHDAY Scott Adsit, American actor
26th of November 1966 BIRTHDAY Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian actress and model
26th of November 1966 BIRTHDAY Fahed Dermech, Tunisian footballer
26th of November 1967 BIRTHDAY Ridley Jacobs, West Indian cricketer
26th of November 1968 BIRTHDAY Edna Campbell, American basketball player
26th of November 1969 BIRTHDAY Shawn Kemp, American basketball player
26th of November 1969 BIRTHDAY Kara Walker, American artist
26th of November 1970 BIRTHDAY Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
26th of November 1970 BIRTHDAY John Amaechi, American-born British basketball player
26th of November 1971 BIRTHDAY Ronald "Winky" Wright, American boxer
26th of November 1972 BIRTHDAY Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
26th of November 1972 BIRTHDAY Chris Osgood, Canadian hockey player
26th of November 1973 BIRTHDAY Kristin Bauer, American actress
26th of November 1973 BIRTHDAY Peter Facinelli, American actor
26th of November 1974 BIRTHDAY Tammy Lynn Michaels, American actress
26th of November 1975 BIRTHDAY DJ Khaled, Palestinian-American hip-hop/rap artist, DJ and producer
26th of November 1975 BIRTHDAY Patrice Lauzon, French Canadian figure skater
26th of November 1976 BIRTHDAY Maven Huffman, American professional wrestler
26th of November 1976 BIRTHDAY Andreas Augustsson, Swedish footballer
26th of November 1976 BIRTHDAY Brian Schneider, American baseball player
26th of November 1977 BIRTHDAY Paris Lenon, American football player
26th of November 1977 BIRTHDAY Ivan Basso, Italian bicyclist
26th of November 1977 BIRTHDAY John Parrish, American baseball player
26th of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Matthew Taylor, American bassist (Motion City Soundtrack)
26th of November 1979 BIRTHDAY B.J. Averell, American reality television contestant
26th of November 1980 BIRTHDAY Jason Anthony Griffith, American video game voice actor
26th of November 1980 BIRTHDAY Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor
26th of November 1981 BIRTHDAY Stephan Andersen, Danish footballer
26th of November 1981 BIRTHDAY OJ Da Juiceman, American rapper
26th of November 1981 BIRTHDAY Natalie Gauci, Australian singer
26th of November 1981 BIRTHDAY Natasha Bedingfield, British singer
26th of November 1981 BIRTHDAY Gina Kingsbury, Canadian hockey player
26th of November 1982 BIRTHDAY Keith Ballard, American hockey player
26th of November 1982 BIRTHDAY Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby league player
26th of November 1983 BIRTHDAY Chris Hughes, American businessman, co-founder of Facebook
26th of November 1984 BIRTHDAY Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
26th of November 1986 BIRTHDAY Trevor Morgan, American actor
26th of November 1986 BIRTHDAY Konstadinos Filippidis, Greek pole vaulter
26th of November 1986 BIRTHDAY Alberto Sgarbi, Italian rugby player
26th of November 1987 BIRTHDAY Kat DeLuna, American singer
26th of November 1988 BIRTHDAY Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese fashion model
26th of November 1990 BIRTHDAY Danny Welbeck, English footballer
26th of November 1990 BIRTHDAY Chipmunk, British rapper
26th of November 1992 BIRTHDAY Louis Ducruet, son of Princess Stephanie of Monaco
26th of November 1993 BIRTHDAY Erena Ono, Japanese singer (AKB48)
26th of November 0399 DEATH Pope Siricius
26th of November 0666 DEATH Yeon Gaesomun of Goguryeo (other sources indicate DOD 664 or 665)
26th of November 1252 DEATH Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (Born 1188)
26th of November 1326 DEATH Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (Born 1286)
26th of November 1504 DEATH Queen Isabella I of Castile (Born 1451)
26th of November 1621 DEATH Radulph Agas, English surveyor (Born c. 1540)
26th of November 1639 DEATH John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (Born 1565)
26th of November 1651 DEATH Henry Ireton, English Civil War general (Born 1611)
26th of November 1688 DEATH Philippe Quinault, French writer (Born 1635)
26th of November 1689 DEATH Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (Born 1635)
26th of November 1717 DEATH Daniel Purcell, British composer (Born 1664)
26th of November 1719 DEATH John Hudson, British classical scholar (Born 1662)
26th of November 1780 DEATH James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (Born 1712)
26th of November 1836 DEATH John MacAdam, British road builder (Born 1756)
26th of November 1851 DEATH Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (Born 1769)
26th of November 1855 DEATH Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Born 1798)
26th of November 1857 DEATH Joseph von Eichendorff, German poet (Born 1788)
26th of November 1876 DEATH Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (Born 1792)
26th of November 1883 DEATH Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist (Born 1797)
26th of November 1885 DEATH Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (Born 1813)
26th of November 1892 DEATH Charles Lavigerie, French Catholic cardinal (Born 1825)
26th of November 1896 DEATH Coventry Patmore, British poet (Born 1823)
26th of November 1919 DEATH Felipe Angeles, Mexican Revolution general (Born 1868)
26th of November 1926 DEATH John Browning, American firearm designer and inventor (Born 1855)
26th of November 1928 DEATH Reinhard Scheer, German naval officer (Born 1863)
26th of November 1934 DEATH Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (Born 1866)
26th of November 1938 DEATH Flora Call Disney, mother of Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney (Born 1868)
26th of November 1941 DEATH Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (Born 1861)
26th of November 1941 DEATH Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (Born 1876)
26th of November 1943 DEATH Edward O'Hare, American ace pilot (Born 1914)
26th of November 1952 DEATH Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (Born 1865)
26th of November 1954 DEATH Bill Doak, American baseball player (Born 1891)
26th of November 1956 DEATH Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (Born 1905)
26th of November 1959 DEATH Albert Ketelbey, British composer (Born 1875)
26th of November 1962 DEATH Albert Sarraut, French politician (Born 1872)
26th of November 1963 DEATH Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (Born 1882)
26th of November 1971 DEATH Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher (Born 1884)
26th of November 1974 DEATH Cyril Connolly, English intellectual (Born 1903)
26th of November 1977 DEATH Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (Born 1920)
26th of November 1981 DEATH Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (Born 1901)
26th of November 1985 DEATH Vivien Thomas, American surgeon (Born 1910)
26th of November 1987 DEATH Thomas G. Lanphier, American aviator (Born 1915)
26th of November 1991 DEATH Bob Johnson, American hockey coach (Born 1931)
26th of November 1991 DEATH Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Born 1908)
26th of November 1994 DEATH Joey Stefano, American actor (Born 1968)
26th of November 1994 DEATH David Bache, British car designer (Born 1925)
26th of November 1996 DEATH Michael Bentine, British comedian (Born 1922)
26th of November 1996 DEATH Paul Rand, American graphic designer (Born 1914)
26th of November 1998 DEATH Jonathan Kwitny, American reporter (Born 1941)
26th of November 2001 DEATH Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa, Finnish writer (Born 1943)
26th of November 2002 DEATH Polo Montanez, Cuban singer and songwriter (Born 1955)
26th of November 2002 DEATH Verne Winchell, American doughnut entrepreneur (Born 1915)
26th of November 2003 DEATH Stefan Wul, French writer (Born 1922)
26th of November 2003 DEATH Soulja Slim, American rapper (Born 1978)
26th of November 2004 DEATH Philippe de Broca, French film director (Born 1933)
26th of November 2005 DEATH Stan Berenstain, American children's author (Born 1923)
26th of November 2005 DEATH Mark Craney, American musician (Born 1952)
26th of November 2006 DEATH Mario Cesariny, Portuguese painter and writer (Born 1923)
26th of November 2006 DEATH Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (Born 1943)
26th of November 2006 DEATH Isaac Galvez, Spanish pro cyclist (Born 1975)
26th of November 2006 DEATH Raul Velasco, Mexican television host (Born 1933)
26th of November 2006 DEATH Stephen Heywood, American builder (Born 1969)
26th of November 2007 DEATH Mel Tolkin, television comedy writer (Born 1913)
26th of November 2007 DEATH Silvestre Herrera, Mexican-born American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. (Born 1917)
26th of November 2008 DEATH Edna Parker, American supercentenarian (Born 1893)
26th of November 2008 DEATH De'Angelo Wilson, American actor (Born 1979)
26th of November 2010 DEATH Palle Huld, Danish actor (Born 1912)