Notable Historical Events on November 26th
November 26th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
43 |
The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed. |
BC AD | |
579 |
Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
783 |
Asturian queen Adosinda was put in the monastery of San Juan de Pravia, where she lived out the rest of her life, 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. |
1527 |
Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I |
1580 |
French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty |
1648 |
Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westphalia |
1688 |
Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg |
1688 |
French King Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands |
1688 |
King James II escapes back to London |
1702 |
Premiere of Colley Cibber's "King Imposter" |
1703 |
Great storm of 1703 hits Southern England (NS 7 Dec) - thousands killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1,500 seamen |
1716 |
1st lion exhibited in America (Boston) |
1741 |
French & Beiers army occupies Prague |
1764 |
France bans Jesuit enorde |
1778 |
Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) |
1784 |
Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established. |
1789 |
1st national Thanksgiving in USA |
1793 |
Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France |
1805 |
Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, carrying the Llangollen canal 126 feet above the River Dee |
1825 |
1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY)) |
1832 |
1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12 cent fare) |
1835 |
HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ |
1841 |
1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan |
1842 |
The University of Notre Dame is founded. |
1847 |
Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice" premieres in Paris |
1859 |
Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical All the Year Round |
1861 |
West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virginia |
1863 |
-Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA |
1864 |
Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia |
1864 |
Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal/Waynesboro, Georgia |
1865 |
"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in USA |
1865 |
Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile. |
1867 |
Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit |
1868 |
1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th & Folsom |
1885 |
1st meteor photograph |
1894 |
King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France |
1895 |
Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms |
1896 |
1st large indoor football game, U of Chic beats U of Mich 7-6 |
1896 |
A A Stagg of U Chicago creates American football huddle |
1898 |
-27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die |
1898 |
SS Portland "The Titanic of New England" leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed |
1901 |
Italy and Britain sign an agreement fixing the frontier between their colonies of Eritrea and Sudan in East Africa |
1909 |
Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men. |
1910 |
2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers, 16-7 |
1913 |
Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers |
1913 |
Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City. |
1914 |
Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die |
1916 |
Greece declares war on Germany |
1916 |
Addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, US President Wilson declares that 'The business of neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched' |
1918 |
The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia. |
1922 |
English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt |
1924 |
Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed |
1925 |
Netherlands & Germany sign trade agreement |
1927 |
15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6 |
1928 |
Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily" premieres in Dresden |
1928 |
Philip Barry's "Holiday" premieres in NYC |
1932 |
Bradman completes 10,000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings |
1933 |
Camille Chautemps becomes French premier |
1934 |
German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to Nazis |
1934 |
Turkish regiment decrees importing family names |
1939 |
4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border |
1940 |
Leidse students strike |
1940 |
Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw |
1941 |
Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro |
1941 |
General Alan Cunningham relieved of command of British 8th Army in North Africa |
1941 |
British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda |
1941 |
Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor |
1941 |
Lebanon independence first proclaimed by France |
1942 |
"Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC |
1942 |
Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms |
1944 |
1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor |
1944 |
Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria |
1945 |
During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington) |
1945 |
Charlie "Bird" Parker leads a record date for the Savoy label, marketed as the "greatest Jazz session ever" |
1948 |
Belgian government of Spaak resigns |
1948 |
1st polaroid camera sold for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store. The Land Camera model 95 becomes the prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras produced for the next 15 years. |
1949 |
37th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 28-15 |
1949 |
India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic |
1950 |
China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River |
1952 |
1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil" premieres in Hollywood |
1953 |
KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening |
1954 |
Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba |
1955 |
"Boy Friend" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 483 performances |
1955 |
43rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-19 |
1955 |
Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus |
1956 |
"The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC |
1956 |
USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it sinks |
1957 |
WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6 |
1960 |
Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins |
1961 |
For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions |
1961 |
Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball |
1962 |
Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms |
1962 |
Fab Four have their first recording session under name The Beatles |
1963 |
29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB) |
1963 |
Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of Year |
1963 |
Explorer 18 launched |
1965 |
Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year |
1965 |
France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix) |
1966 |
"Walking Happy" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 perfs |
1966 |
1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France |
1966 |
54th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14 |
1967 |
Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return |
1967 |
Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450 |
1968 |
34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern Cal (RB) |
1969 |
35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB) |
1969 |
Cream's final concert (Royal Albert Hall) |
1969 |
Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon |
1970 |
In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record. |
1972 |
Pete Gogolak scores NY Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown |
1972 |
Bomb explosion at the Film Centre Cinema, in O'Connell Bridge House in Dublin |
1973 |
Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape |
1974 |
Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses in Nepal |
1974 |
Catfish Hunter & Charlie Finley meet in arbitration |
1974 |
Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India |
1975 |
US Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination |
1975 |
France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
1975 |
Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP |
1975 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1976 |
German DR deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship |
1976 |
Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single |
1976 |
Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK" |
1976 |
Willy Brandt elected chairman of Social International |
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 |
1978 |
1st lesbian theme TV movie - "Question of Love" |
1978 |
66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13 |
1979 |
Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years |
1979 |
Twins John Castino & Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year |
1980 |
Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building |
1980 |
Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP |
1982 |
Clyde King named Yankee manager |
1982 |
Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki |
1982 |
Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch |
1983 |
Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million |
1984 |
After 518 goals & 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy Lafleur retires |
1984 |
John W Mercom Jr announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million |
1984 |
Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain |
1984 |
US & Iraq re-establish diplomatic relations |
1985 |
23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched |
1985 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1985 |
Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000 |
1988 |
Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev & Jean-Loup Chretien launch |
1988 |
Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km) |
1989 |
77th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40 |
1989 |
Comores coup under Bob Benard |
1989 |
Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes pres of Uruguay |
1989 |
Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras |
1990 |
1st Billboard Music Awards: M.C. Hammer & Janet Jackson win |
1990 |
Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend |
1990 |
Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion |
1990 |
Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait |
1990 |
Premier Mazowiecki of Poland resigns |
1990 |
US proposes addition to UN resolution that would require Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait by January 1 |
1991 |
Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students |
1995 |
33rd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2) |
1995 |
Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass |
1995 |
New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI |
1996 |
Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4 |
1996 |
Colbert, Floyd & Irwin win Wendy's Senior 3 Tour Golf Challenge |
1996 |
Couples, Davies, Sheehan & Sorenstam win Wendy's Lady's 3 Tour Golf |
1996 |
Couples, Love & Stewart win Wendy's Men's 3 Tour Golf Challenge |
1997 |
Wash Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5 |
1998 |
Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament. |
1999 |
Steve Yzerman scores his 600th career goal |
2000 |
88th CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Montreal Alouettes, 28-26 |
2003 |
Concorde makes its last ever 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. |
2008 |
Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India. |
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. |
2012 |
10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground |
2012 |
The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion |
2013 |
Due to a street tirade captured on video, Alec Baldwin's show "Up Late with Alec Baldwin" is cancelled after only five episodes |
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