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- 0043 BC The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.
- 0783 The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
- 1703 Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships
- 1716 The first lion exhibited in America (Boston)
- 1778 Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)
- 1778 In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
- 1789 A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
- 1789 The first national thanksgiving
- 1793 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
- 1805 Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
- 1825 At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
- 1825 The first college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
- 1832 The first streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12«. fare)
- 1861 At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West Virginia
- 1862 Charles Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll) sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.
- 1863 American Civil War: Mine Run Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
- 1865 Alice in Wonderland published
- 1865 Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
- 1885 The first meteor photograph
- 1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed
- 1909 Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
- 1918 The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
- 1922 Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
- 1922 KING TUT'S tomb entered
- 1922 Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).
- 1924 Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
- 1925 Visitor posting - Marvin Betlach born - USA
- 1930 Visitor posting - Howard Thomas Whitt born - USA
- 1938 Tina Turner born
- 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 Thanksgiving Holiday delcared by FDR
- 1942 Holocaust: 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.
- 1942 The film Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York City, as Allied Expeditionary Forces (AEF) secure their hold on North Africa during World War II.
- 1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes, killing 15 (Washington)
- 1949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
- 1949 The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India's constitution.
- 1950 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
- 1950 Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and American forces (Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
- 1958 Visitor posting - Belinda is Born - USA
- 1962 The first recording session under the name "Beatles"
- 1964 Nine helicopters of HU-2 and four from NAS Lakehurst, assisted the Coast Guard in the rescue of 17 men from the Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali cut in two by collision with the Israeli liner Shalom off the New Jersey coast.
- 1965 France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
- 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.
- 1966 First major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
- 1966 The first major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
- 1969 Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
- 1969 Visitor posting - Eric Barbee is born - USA
- 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
- 1976 Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single
- 1977 'Vrillon', representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for five minutes at 5:12 PM.
- 1978 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
- 1980 Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
- 1982 Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by the Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
- 1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
- 1983 Brinks Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly 26 million are stolen from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
- 1983 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
- 1985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
- 1986 Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
- 1986 Visitor posting - Stephanie is born - USA
- 1988 Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Jean-Loup Chretien launch
- 1988 Arafat Refused Entry into the U.S.
- 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
- 1990 The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
- 1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
- 1992 Visitor posting - Tommie Belton was born to James Belton.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Blake's Birthday - USA
- 1998 Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
- 1999 Visitor posting - jonas brothers born. My dog is named owen - USA
- 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.
- 2007 Washington Redskins player Sean Taylor is shot at his home in Miami, Florida. He died a day later of sustained wounds.
- 2008 Visitor posting - Anais' celebrates her birthday on Thanksgiving! - USA
- 2008 Visitor posting - November 26, 2008 MIA KATE PETROSKY is born. - USA
- 2009 A gunman attacks the University of Pécs in southern Hungary, killing one and injuring at least three people.
- 2009 All pleas to halt British hacker Gary McKinnon being extradited to the United States to face trial for breaking into NASA and military computers looking for UFO evidence fail as UK Home Secretary orders his extradition.
- 2009 Ceremonies are held in India to mark the first anniversary of a series of attacks in Mumbai by Pakistani militants which killed 166 people.
- 2009 China unveils its first firm target to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of a United Nations summit in Copenhagen next month.
- 2009 Citizens of St Vincent and the Grenadines reject a new constitution which would have replaced Queen Elizabeth II with a president as Head of State.
- 2009 Floods in Saudi Arabia kill around 77 people in Jeddah, Rabigh and Mecca, and a further 351 are missing in the heaviest rainfall in years.
- 2009 Germany's army chief Wolfgang Schneiderhan resigns over allegations of a cover up related to a September NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan.
- 2009 Ireland's Taoiseach Brian Cowen is confronted by displeased residents in Athlone during his half-day tour of flood-hit areas in Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and Westmeath.
- 2009 Police in Hong Kong attempt to find the founder of a Facebook group whose members claim to have planned to commit a mass suicide on December 21.
- 2009 South Korea's Constitutional Court strikes down a decades old law that punished men for making false promises of marriage to engage in sexual relations with women.
- 2009 Thanksgiving day - US - (always last Thursday of November)
- 2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) labels the Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines the "single deadliest event for the press" ever documented.
- 2009 The Murphy Report, commissioned by the Irish government, finds that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin covered up widespread sexual abuse of children by priests until the mid 1990s.
- 2009 The Namibian National Society for Human Rights announces it will approach the High Court after the electoral commission withdraws its observer status for the general election on Friday.
- 2009 The Supreme Court in Bogotá convicts and sentences former general Jaime Uscátegui to 40 years in prison for his role in the Mapiripán Massacre in 1997 by far right militias.
- 2009 Visitor posting - November 26 2009 Stephanie turns 17 Thanksgiving - bring her lots mashed potatoes!
- 2011 Important Islamic date - Islamic New Year: November 26, 2011 (1433 A.H.)
- 2015 Thanksgiving day - US - (always last Thursday of November)
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