November 26
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November 26 is the 330th day of the year (331st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 35 days remaining until the end of the year.
Births [change]
- 117 - Aelius Aristides, Greek writer (d. 181)
- 1288 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
- 1436 – Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)
- 1604 - Johannes Bach, German composer and musician (d. 1673)
- 1607 – John Harvard, English-born clergyman and University benefactor (d. 1638)
- 1609 – Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
- 1657 – William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
- 1678 – Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)
- 1703 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
- 1731 – William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
- 1792 – Sarah Grimke, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
- 1832 – Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
- 1832 – Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)
- 1847 – Maria Feodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
- 1853 - Bat Masterson, American Old West figure (d. 1921)
- 1857 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
- 1864 – Edward Higgins, British Salvation Army General (d. 1947)
- 1864 - Eugene Pierre, French politician (d. 1937)
- 1869 – Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
- 1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer and inventor (d. 1950)
- 1885 – Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1970)
- 1889 – Albert Dieudonné, French actor, screenwriter and novelist (d. 1976)
- 1894 – Norbert Wiener, American mathematician and founder of Cybernetics (d. 1964)
- 1897 - Manuel A. Odria, Peruvian general and politician (d. 1974)
- 1898 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laurete (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
- 1902 - Maurice McDonald, American fast food pioneer (d. 1971)
- 1905 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- 1908 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1909 – Eugene Ionescu, Romanian-born dramatist (d. 1994)
- 1909 - Fritz Buchloh, German footballer (d. 1998)
- 1909 - Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1910 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d. 1993)
- 1912 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
- 1914 - Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1915 – Earl Wild, American pianist (d. 2010)
- 1918 – Patricio Aylwin, former President of Chile
- 1919 – Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (d. 2010)
- 1920 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and film director (d. 2004)
- 1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 1924 – George Segal, American Pop Sculptor (d. 2000)
- 1924 - Edward T. Breathitt, Governor of Kentucky (d. 2003)
- 1925 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
- 1927 – Ernie Coombs, American children's entertainer (d. 2001)
- 1930 - J. Joseph Garrahy, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 2012)
- 1931 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1933 – Robert Goulet, American singer and actor (d. 2007)
- 1937 – Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1994)
- 1938 – Porter J. Goss, American politician and Central Intelligence Agency director
- 1938 – Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
- 1938 – Rich Little, Canadian comedian and actor
- 1939 – Tina Turner, American singer and actress
- 1939 – Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia
- 1943 – Bruce Paltrow, American producer and director (d. 2002)
- 1944 – Jean Terrell, American singer
- 1945 – Daniel Davis, American actor
- 1945 – John McVie, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
- 1946 – Art Shell, American football player and coach
- 1947 – Susanne Zenor, American actress
- 1948 – Elizabeth Blackburn, Australian-American molecular biologist
- 1948 – Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (d. 1995)
- 1948 – Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
- 1948 – Claes Elfsberg, Swedish television presenter
- 1949 – Vincent A. Mahler, Political Scientist and professor at Loyola University Chicago
- 1949 – Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1949 - Martin Lee, British singer
- 1950 – Dieter Burdenski, German footballer
- 1951 – Cicciolina, Italian actress and politician
- 1953 – Hilary Benn, British politician
- 1953 – Harry Carson, American football player
- 1954 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (d. 2009)
- 1956 – Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
- 1956 – Keith Vaz, British politician
- 1962 – Chuck Finley, American baseball pitcher
- 1963 - Mario Elie, American basketball player
- 1963 - Matt Frei, German-born British journalist
- 1964 – Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier
- 1969 – Shawn Kemp, American basketball player
- 1970 – Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
- 1970 - John Amaechi, American-born British basketball player
- 1971 – Ronald "Winky" Wright, American boxer
- 1972 – Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
- 1973 – Peter Facinelli, American actor
- 1975 – DJ Khaled, Palestinian-American musical artist and DJ
- 1976 – Maven Huffman, American professional wrestler
- 1980 - Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor
- 1980 – Aruna Dindane, Ivory Coast footballer
- 1981 – Aurora Snow, American actress
- 1981 – Stephan Andersen, Danish international footballer
- 1981 – Ivan Basso, Italian cyclist
- 1981 – Natasha Bedingfield, British singer
- 1982 - Keith Ballard, American ice hockey player
- 1983 – Chris Hughes, American businessman, co-founder of Facebook
- 1984 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
- 1986 - Trevor Morgan, American actor
- 1990 – Chipmunk, British rapper
- 1990 – Danny Welbeck, English footballer
- 1990 - Rita Ora, British singer
- 1992 - Louis Ducruet, Monegasque royal
- 1993 - Erena Ono, Japanese singer (AKB48)
Deaths [change]
- 399 - Pope Siricius
- 1252 - Blanche of Castile, Queen of France (b. 1188)
- 1504 – Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
- 1717 - Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
- 1836 – John Loudon MacAdam, Scottish engineer and roadbuilder (b. 1756)
- 1855 – Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (b. 1798)
- 1876 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (b. 1792)
- 1883 – Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist (b. 1797)
- 1919 - Felipe Angeles, Mexican revolutionary general (b. 1868)
- 1926 - John Browning, American firearms designer and inventor (b. 1855)
- 1930 – Otto Sverdrup, Norwegian explorer (b. 1854)
- 1934 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b. 1866)
- 1938 - Flora Call Disney, mother of Walt Disney (b. 1868)
- 1952 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
- 1954 – Bill Doak, American baseball player (b. 1891)
- 1956 – Tommy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1905)
- 1961 - Styles Bridges, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1898)
- 1962 - Albert Sarrault, French politician (b. 1872)
- 1963 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (b. 1882)
- 1968 – Arnold Zweig, German writer (b. 1887)
- 1969 - Albert Ketelbey, British composer and conductor (b. 1875)
- 1973 – John Rostill, British musician (b. 1942)
- 1981 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b. 1901)
- 1989 - Ahmed Abdallah, President of the Comoros
- 1994 – Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
- 2003 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)
- 2005 - Stan Berenstain, American author (b. 1923)
- 2005 - Mark Craney, American musician (b. 1952)
- 2008 – Edna Parker, American supercentenarian, world's oldest woman at the time of her death (b. 1893)
- 2011 – C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian colonel and politician, President of Biafra (b. 1933)
Events [change]
- 43 BC – The second Roman Triumvirate alliance is formed by Augustus, Marcus Aemelius Lepidus and Mark Antony.
- 1703 - The Great Storm of 1703, affecting Great Britain, sinks 12 Royal Navy ships, killing over 1,500 people.
- 1778 – James Cook becomes the first European to navigate around the island of Maui, Hawaii, but doesn't find a suitable place to land.
- 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is held in the United States.
- 1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.
- 1863 – US President Abraham Lincoln declares Thanksgiving Day a national holiday, to be observed on the fourth Thursday in November.
- 1865 – Spanish-South American War: In the naval battle of Papudo, the Chilean fleet under Juan Williams Rebolledo defeats the Spanish.
- 1894 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna marry.
- 1898 - A storm off New England sinks the passenger ship Portland, killing 152 people.
- 1917 – The NHL is founded.
- 1918 - The Podgorica Assembly in Montenegro votes for a "Union of the People", declaring that it merges with Serbia.
- 1922 – Howard Carter enters the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.
- 1942 - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders gasoline rationing across the United States, starting on December 1.
- 1942 - An earthquake in Turkey kills 4,000 people.
- 1943 - World War II: The ship HMT Rohna is sunk by the German Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean Sea north of Bejaia, Algeria.
- 1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworths shop on New Cross High Street, London, killing 168 people.
- 1950 – Korean War: The People's Republic of China enters the war, launching a counterattack in North Korea against South Korea and UN troops.
- 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.
- 1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe 1.5 inches (38.1 millimetres) of rain fall in a minute, which is a world record.
- 1976 – The Last Waltz is held.
- 1979 - A Boeing 707 of Pakistan International Airlines, crashes during take-off from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 156 people on board.
- 1982 – Larry Holmes wins the heavyweight boxing world title, defeating Randall Cobb in Houston, Texas.
- 1983 – In London, 6,800 gold bars, worth nearly £ 26 million, are stolen from the Brink's MAT vault at Heathrow Airport.
- 1990 - The Delta II rocket makes its first flight.
- 1991 – Azerbaijan's national assembly abolishes the autonomous State of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomus Oblast, where the population is of mainly Armenian ethnicity, and renames all its cities back to their old names.
- 1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to speak at the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
- 2003 – Concorde makes its last flight, over Bristol, England, United Kingdom.
- 2004 – In Ruzhou, China, a man enters a school dormitory and stabs 8 people to death, while he also wounds 4 others.
- 2008 – The 26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks begin with killings and hostage takings in different parts of the city, committed by Islamist terrorists, of whom only one survives. The attacks end on November 29 after a stand-off at the Taj Mahal Hotel.
- 2011 – The New Zealand National Party, led by John Key, is elected to a second term in government.
- 2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory, known as Curiosity, is launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, on board an Atlas V rocket. It lands on Mars in August 2012.
