26th
November, on this day
43 BC The Second
Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian",
later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark
Antony is formed
399 St
Siricius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
579 Pelagius
II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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
1703 Severe gales across England leave 8,000 dead and thousands of
buildings destroyed or badly damaged. Royal Navy loses 15 warships
1716 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1778 Capt
Cook discovers Maui
(Sandwich Islands)
1789 A national Thanksgiving
Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President
George Washington and approved by Congress.
1793 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1805 Official opening of Thomas
Telford's Pontcysyllte
Aqueduct
1812 James
Madison is elected US President defeating De Witt Clinton
1812 Battle
of Berezina : The French suffered very heavy losses crossing the
River Berezina
1832 Trams are introduced in the streets of New York
1835 Grass
Fight : Texans, thinking a Mexican pack train is carrying silver,
capture it but only end up with grass.
1841 1st date in James
Clavell's novel "Tai-Pan"
1842 The University
of Notre Dame is founded.
1857 The first Australian Parliament opens in Melbourne
1864 Alice
in Wonderland published
1865 Battle
of Papudo : The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean
fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
1867 Mrs Lily Maxwell of Manchester casts her vote in a parliamentary
election. She had been placed on the electoral register in error and
had to be escorted by a bodyguard to protect her from opponents to
womens suffrage
1885 1st meteor photograph
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 Archaeologists Howard
Carter and the Earl
of Carnarvon become the first men to see inside the tomb of the
Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun at Luxor since it was sealed 3,000 years
earlier
1924 Mongolian
People's Republic proclaimed
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.
1940 Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto
1941 Amateur tennis champ Bobby
Riggs turns pro
1941 Lebanon gains independence from France
1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing
the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving
Day in the United States.
1942 Shoah
: 572 Norwegian Jews are deported to Auschwitz
on the cargo vessel Donau. This was the first step on the journey
to the death camp Auschwitz. Altogether the total number of Jews deported
from Norway was 767. 25 of the deported survived.[citation needed]
1942 Yugoslav
Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist
Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihac in northwestern
Bosnia
1943 HMT
Rohna a British troop carrier sunk north of Béjaïa
in an air attack. Of the 1,138 men lost, 1,015 were American. The
attack still constitutes the largest loss of U.S. troops at sea
1943 Battle
of Cape St. George : the last engagement of surface ships in the
Solomon
Islands campaign
1944 Germany begins V-1
and V-2
attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes in Washington killing 15
1949 India
adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1950 Battle
of Chosin Reservoir : Troops from the People's Republic of China
launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean
and American forces ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict
1962 1st recording session under the name "Beatles"
1965 France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) Diamant-A
rocket with its satellite,
Asterix-1
1966 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1968 British rock group Cream
- Eric
Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker - appear at a farewell concert
at the Royal Albert Hall in London
1970 In Basse-Terre,
Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest
rainfall ever on record.
1973 Nixon's personal sec, Rose
Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part
of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1974 Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal)
1975 Fed jury found Lynette
Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
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.
1978 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
1979 Pakistan
International Airlines Flight PK740 crashes after a fire on board.
All 156 aboard were killed
1982 Yasuhiro
Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1982 Howard
Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by the Larry
Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
1983 Brinks
Mat robbery : Gold bars, worth a total of £25 million are
stolen from the Brink's
Mat Security warehouse at Heathrow Airport near London
1986 Iran-Contra
scandal : U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of
what will become known as the Tower
Commission
1988 Alexander
Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Jean-Loup Chretien launch
1988 Pioneer 6's closest
approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
1990 Matsushita
purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
1990 Mikhail
Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
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
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'o-uli
dies of avian malaria in Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda before
it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct. .
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Birthdates which
occurred on November 26th:
1607 John Harvard
England, clergyman/scholar, major benefactor to Harvard University
(library & half his estate)
1731 William Cowper England, preromantic poet (His Task)
1792 Sarah Moore Grimk‚ American antislavery, women's rights
advocate
1832 Mary Edwards Walker US, doctor/women's rights leader
1857 Ferdinand de Saussure Switzerland, linguist (Cours de Laguistique
Generale)
1876 Willis Haviland Carrier developed air-conditioning equipment
1892 Joe Guyon NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc)
1894 Norbert Wiener US, mathematician/discovered cybernetics
19-- Elizabeth Savage Pittsburgh PA, actress (Gwyneth-Loving)
1902 Alberto Morin PR, actor (Armando-Dallas)
1905 Emlyn Williams Wales, actor/playwright (David Copperfield)
1907 Frances Dee US actress (Of Human Bondage)
1910 Cyril Cusack South Africa, actress (Day of the Jackal)
1912 Eric Sevareid Velva ND, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1912 Eugene Ionesco France, dramatist (Rhinoceros)
1913 Foy Draper US, relay runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1915 Earl Wild Pittsburgh PA, pianist (Caesar's Hour, NBC Symphony
1942)
1922 Adele Jergens Brooklyn NY, actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man)
1922 Charles M Schulz cartoonist (Peanuts)
1924 George Segal NY, sculptor lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver)
1925 Eugene Istomin NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award-1943)
1925 Linda Hunt Morriston NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)
1927 John Carter Center Ridge Ark, actor (Max-Falcon Crest)
1929 Betta St John Hawthorne CA, actress (Corridors of Blood)
1931 Adolfo Perez Esquivel Buenos Argentina, (1980 Nobel Peace Prize)
1931 Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1933 Robert Goulet Lawrence MA, singer/actor (Camelot, Naked Gun 2«)
1934 Ludmila Shevtsova USSR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1935 Marian Mercer Akron Ohio, actress/singer (Dean Martin Show)
1937 Boris Yegorov cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
1937 Leo Lacroix France, skier (Olympic-silver-1964)
1938 Rich Little Ottawa Canada, impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop)
1938 Tina Turner [Anna Mae Bullock], Brownsville TX, singer (Proud
Mary)
1942 Olivia Cole Memphis TN, actress (Roots, Szysznyk)
1943 Jan Stenerud Norway, NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs)
1945 John McVie rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk)
1945 Mikhail Woronin USSR, gymnast (Olympic-2 gold/4 silver/bronze-1968)
1948 Galina Prozumenschikova USSR, 200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1964)
1952 Wendy Turnbell Australia, tennis player (1979,82 US Opens Double)
1959 Jamie Rose NYC, actress (Susan Birch-St Elsewhere, Falcon Crest)
1961 Marcy Walker actress (All My Children, Eden-Santa Barbara)
1963 Allyson Rice-Taylor actress (Connor-As the World Turns)
1981 Jamie Fiske liver transplant recipient
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Deaths which occurred on November 26th:
1883 Sojourner Truth abolitionist, women's rights advocate, dies
1939 James Naismith Basketball inventor, dies
1970 B O Davis Sr 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago
1973 Albert DiSalvo Boston strangler, stabbed
1980 Rachael Roberts actress, dies at age 53
1982 Dan Tobin actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at
73
1982 Robert Coote actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe), dies
at 73
1985 Ransom Sherman comedian (Father of the Bride), dies at 87
1986 Scatman Crothers actor (Louie-Chico & the Man), dies at 76
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