November 26
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November 26 is the 331st day of the year (332nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining after November 26 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1288 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
- 1436 – Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)
- 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 (Dagmar of Denmark), Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
- 1857 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
- 1864 – Edward Higgins, British Salvation Army General (d. 1947)
- 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)
- 1898 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laurete (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
- 1905 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- 1908 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1909 – Eugene Ionescu, Romanian-born dramatist (d. 1994)
- 1910 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d. 1993)
- 1912 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
- 1915 – Earl Wild, American pianist (d. 2010)
- 1918 – Patricio Aylwin, former President of Chile
- 1919 – Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 1924 – George Segal, American Pop Sculptor (d. 2000)
- 1925 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
- 1927 – Ernie Coombs, American children's entertainer (d. 2001)
- 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)
- 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
- 1964 – Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier
- 1969 – Shawn Kemp, American basketball player
- 1970 – Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
- 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 – 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
- 1983 – Chris Hughes, American businessman, co-founder of Facebook
- 1984 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
- 1990 – Chipmunk, British rapper
- 1990 – Danny Welbeck, English footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1504 – Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
- 1836 – John Loudon MacAdam, Scottish engineer and roadbuilder (b. 1756)
- 1855 – Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (b. 1798)
- 1883 – Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist (b. 1797)
- 1930 – Otto Sverdrup, Norwegian explorer (b. 1854)
- 1952 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
- 1954 – Bill Doak, American baseball player (b. 1891)
- 1956 – Tommy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1905)
- 1968 – Arnold Zweig, German writer (b. 1887)
- 1973 – John Rostill, British musician (b. 1942)
- 1981 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b. 1901)
- 1994 – Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
- 2003 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)
- 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)
[change] Events
- 43 BC – The second Roman Triumvirate alliance is formed by Augustus, Marcus Aemelius Lepidus and Mark Antony.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1917 – The NHL is founded.
- 1922 – Howard Carter enters the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.
- 1950 – Korean War: The People's Republic of China enters the war, launching a counter attack in North Korea against South Korea and UN troops.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 is launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, on board an Atlas V rocket. It is set to land on Mars in August 2012.
