November 26......

November 26 is the 330th day of the year (331st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 35 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 43 BC-The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.

● 783 - The Austrian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.

● 1539 - In England, the monastery at the Fountains Abbey was surrendered to the crown. It was the richest of the Cistercian houses, prior to the time of the Dissolution of all monasteries in England, under the reign of Henry VIII.

● 1716 - The first lion to be exhibited in America went on display in Boston, MA.

● 1731 - English poet William Cowper was born. He is best known for "The Poplar Trees" and "The Task."

● 1775 - The American Navy began using chaplains within its regular service.

● 1778 - In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.

● 1789 - A day of thanksgiving was set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. (National Thanksgiving days were periodically proclaimed by presidents, until in 1863 Abraham Lincoln inaugurated the practice of annually setting the fourth Thursday in November aside for Thanksgiving Day.)

● 1792 - Birth of American anti-slavery and suffragist activist Sarah Grimke.

● 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.

● 1832 - Public streetcar service began in New York City.

● 1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.

● 1855 - "Wakarusa War," a series of armed skirmishes between pro-slavery "Border Ruffians" from Missouri, and Kansas Free State men, erupts near Lawrence, Kansas.

● 1861 - West Virginia was created (out of Virginia) over a dispute of slavery. West Virginia was against slavery.

● 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.

● 1864 - Major Scott Anthony orders Cheyennes, living near Fort Lyon in Colorado for protection from vigilantes, to move, precipitating the Sand Creek Massacre three days later.

● 1865 - Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.

● 1867 - J.B. Sutherland patented the refrigerated railroad car.

● 1868 - Ignoring orders to kill only warriors, a U.S. Army contingent led by Gen. Custer massacres 103 sleeping Cheyenne--including Black Kettle, survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre--in the so-called "Battle of the Washita," Oklahoma Territory.

● 1883 - U.S. Supreme Court declares 1875 Civil Rights Act unconstitutional.

● 1883 - Death of Sojourner Truth, feminist, abolitionist and former slave. Battle Creek, Mich.

● 1895 - Arthur Arnould dies. French journalist, novelist, anarchist member of First International and the Paris Commune, companion of Michael Bakunin.

● 1910 - Twenty-five women workers burn to death in Newark, N.J. factory fire, a tragic foreshadowing of the far more deadly Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York four months later.

● 1911 - Death of Paul Lafargue, son-in-law of Karl Marx. Went to Spain in a foolish effort to counter the Bakuninist ideas spread there by Fanelli.

● 1912 - Emma Goldman speaks at a meeting organized by Almeda Sperry in New Kensington, Pa., followed by meetings over the next four days in Pittsburgh, New Castle, and McKees Rocks.

● 1914 - Emma Goldman lectures on "The War and `Our Lord,'" in Grand Rapids, Mich.

● 1914 - Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die.

● 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

● 1920 - Makhno's anarchist commanders in the Crimea, fresh from victories over General Wrangel's right-wing White army, met with Trotsky's left-wing Red Army under a flag of truce. They were seized and immediately shot.

● 1921 - Second congress of l'Union Anarchiste meets for two days, in Lyon, France.

● 1922 - Charles Schulz, American cartoonist and creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip, was born.

● 1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.

● 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.

● 1930 - Birth of Adolfo Perez Esquivel, co-founder of Servicio Paz y Justica (SERPAJ), Argentina.

● 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 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.

● 1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939, Roosevelt had signed a bill that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November.

● 1941 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - A fleet of six aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence.

● 1941 - World War II: The Hull note ultimatum is delivered to Japan by the United States.

● 1942 - Shoah: 572 Norwegian Jews were 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 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing to begin December 1.

● 1942 - The motion picture ''Casablanca,'' starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York.

● 1942 - World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.

● 1943 - The HMT Rohna became the first ship to be sunk by a guided missile. The HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying U.S. soldiers, was hit by the German missile off Algeria; 1,138 men were killed, including 1,015 American troops.

● 1945 - "Save Europe from Destruction" rally, London, England.

● 1949 - India's Constituent Assembly adopted the country's constitution. The country became a republic within the British Commonwealth two months later.

● 1950 - Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China move into North Korea and launch a massive counterattack against South Korean and American forces (Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.

● 1953 - Lords vote for commercial television; Peers back the Government's proposals for commercial television - despite fierce opposition from some rebels who fear the influence of advertisers.

● 1958 - Maurice Richard (Montreal Canadiens) scored his 600th NHL career goal.

● 1962 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'No doubt [my body] has often led me astray: but not half so often, I suspect, as my soul has led IT astray. For the spiritual evils ... arise more from the imagination than from the appetites.'

● 1965 - In the Hammaguira launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1, a 92-pound capsule on board, becoming the third country to enter space.

● 1966 - Peter Fonda is among 100 arrested in Los Angeles during protest of a 10 PM curfew in Sunset Blvd. entertainment district.

● 1968 - U.N. passes Resolution Against Capital Punishment. Guess who ignored it? And still does to its own peril.

● 1968 - Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.

● 1968 - Race discrimination law tightened in the UK; The new Race Relations Act makes it illegal to refuse housing, employment or public services to people because of their ethnic background.

● 1968 - British rock band Cream play their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

● 1970 - During a 10_day visit to the Philippines, Pope Paul VI was attacked by a knife wielding man in Manila. The pontiff was unhurt and continued his journey.

● 1970 - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record.

● 1970 - American Indian Movement (AIM) activists celebrate Thanksgiving by occupying Plymouth Rock, Mass.

● 1972 - Police foil IRA hospital rescue attempt; Eight armed men protesting against the imprisonment of IRA hunger striker Sean MacStiofain try to rescue him from a Dublin hospital.

● 1973 - Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she was responsible for the 18-1/2 minute gap in a key Watergate tape. Woods was U.S. President Nixon's personal secretary and “fall guy.”

● 1975 - A federal jury in Sacramento, Calif., found Lynette ''Squeaky'' Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford on September 5.

● 1976 - The Band play their final concert, dubbed The Last Waltz. One of the guest performers is Eric Clapton, whose band Cream also played their farewell concert on November 26, 8 years earlier.

● 1976 - Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK."

● 1977 - 'Vrillon', representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for five minutes at 5:12 PM.

● 1979 - The International Olympic Committee voted to re-admit China after a 21-year absence.

● 1983 - A Brinks Mat Ltd. vault at London's Heathrow Airport was robbed by gunmen. The men made off with 6,800 gold bars worth nearly $40 million. Only a fraction of the gold has ever been recovered and only two men have been convicted in the heist.

● 1985 - US President Ronald Reagan signs over rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.

● 1986 - U.S. President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff after the Iran-Contra affair.

● 1986 - The New Yorker publishes Susan Sontag's AIDS short story, "The Way We Live Now"

● 1987 - The very first World Wrestling Entertainment Survivor Series took place in Richfield, Ohio

● 1988 - The U.S. denied an entry visa to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who was seeking permission to travel to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.

● 1990 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz at the Kremlin to demand that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait.

● 1990 - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. agreed to acquire MCA Inc. for $6.6 billion.

● 1990 - The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.

● 1991 - Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York high school students.

● 1991 - Custer Battlefield Nat'l Monument in Montana is renamed Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. The parking lot, of course, is still mostly occupied by Winnebagos and Jeep Cherokees. Reservations are still required.

● 1992 - The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income. She also took her children off the public payroll. The Queen is to become the first British monarch since the 1930s to pay income tax.

● 1993 - Israeli troops shoot to death Palestinian guerrilla leader Khaled Mustafa Zer in the Arab Jerusalem suburb of Sur Bahir. This is the third killing, in eight days, of opponents of a September 13 peace accord between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). If they won’t join you, kill them.

● 1993 - Belgian general strike.

● 1995 - Two men set fire to a subway token booth in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The clerk inside was fatally burned.

● 1997 - The U.S. and North Korea held high-level discussions at the State Department for the first time.

● 1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.

● 1998 - Hulk Hogan announced that he was retiring from pro wrestling and would run for president in 2000 which was surprisingly unsuccessful.

● 2000 - Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified Republican George W. Bush the winner over Democrat Al Gore in the state's presidential balloting by 537 votes.

● 2002 - WorldCom and the government settled a civil lawsuit over the company's $9 billion accounting scandal.

● 2003 - The U.N. atomic agency adopted a resolution that censured Iran for past nuclear cover-ups and warning that it would be policed to put to rest suspicions that the country had a weapons agenda.

● 2003 - Concorde makes its last ever flight over Bristol, UK.

BIRTHS

● 1288 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)

● 1436 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)

● 1607 - John Harvard, English-born clergyman (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 early feminist (d. 1873)

● 1828 - René Goblet, French politician (d. 1905)

● 1832 - Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)

● 1832 - Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)

● 1847 - Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)

● 1857 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)

● 1858 - Katharine Drexel, American founder of Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (d. 1955)

● 1864 - Edward Higgins, the 3rd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1947)

● 1869 - Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)

● 1876 - Willis Carrier, American engineer and inventor (d. 1950)

● 1877 - Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962)

● 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 and murderer of Charles Lindbergh III, the son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh (d. 1936)

● 1905 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)

● 1907 - Ruth Patrick, American Botanist

● 1908 - Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d. 1989)

● 1908 - Charles Forte, Scottish Hotelier

● 1909 - Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-born French dramatist (d. 1994)

● 1910 - Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d. 1993)

● 1912 - Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)

● 1915 - Earl Wild, American pianist

● 1922 - Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist and creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip (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

● 1931 - Adrianus Johannes Cardinal Simonis, Archbishop of Utrecht

● 1933 - Robert Goulet, American singer and actor

● 1937 - Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut

● 1938 - Samuel Bodman, Secretary of Energy

● 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)

● 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 - 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)

● 1951 - Cicciolina, Italian actress and politician

● 1953 - Harry Carson, American football player and Hall of Fame member

● 1956 - Dale Jarrett, American race car driver

● 1959 - Jamie Rose, Actress

● 1960 - Harold Reynolds, American baseball player

● 1962 - Chuck Finley, American baseball pitcher

● 1964 - Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier

● 1962 - Linda Davis, Country singer

● 1965 - Bernard Allison, Blues musician

● 1965 - Steve Grisaffe, Country musician (River Road)

● 1967 - Ridley Jacobs, West Indian cricketer

● 1969 - Shawn Kemp, American basketball player

● 1970 - Dave Hughes, Australian comedian

● 1970 - Alex Taylor, Latin porn star

● 1971 - Ronald "Winky" Wright, American boxer

● 1972 - Arjun Rampal, Indian actor

● 1973 - Kristin Bauer, Actress

● 1973 - Peter Facinelli, American actor

● 1976 - Maven Huffman, American professional wrestler

● 1976 - Maia Campbell, Actress

● 1976 - Joe Nichols, Country singer

● 1976 - Brian Schneider, Baseball player

● 1977 - Ivan Basso, Italian professional road bicycle racer

● 1977 - Forrest Griffin, American MMA-fighter

● 1978 - Matthew Taylor, bassist for Motion City Soundtrack

● 1980 - Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor

● 1980 - Jessica Bowman, Actress

● 1981 - Stephan Andersen, Danish international footballer

● 1981 - Natasha Bedingfield, British singer

● 1981 - Aurora Snow, American actress

● 1985 - Lil' Fizz, American singer

DEATHS

● 399 - Pope Siricius

● 1252 - Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (b. 1188)

● 1326 - Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (b. 1286)

● 1504 - Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)

● 1621 - Radulph Agas, English surveyor

● 1639 - John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (b. 1565)

● 1651 - Henry Ireton, English Civil War general (b. 1611)

● 1686 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (b. 1638)

● 1688 - Philippe Quinault, French writer (b. 1635)

● 1689 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (b. 1635)

● 1717 - Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)

● 1719 - John Hudson, British classical scholar (b. 1662)

● 1780 - Sir James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (b. 1712)

● 1836 - John MacAdam, British road builder (b. 1756)

● 1851 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (b. 1769)

● 1855 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (b. 1798)

● 1857 - Joseph von Eichendorff, German poet (b. 1788)

● 1876 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (b. 1792)

● 1885 - Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (b.1813)

● 1896 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (b. 1818)

● 1896 - Coventry Patmore, British poet (b. 1823)

● 1934 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b.1866)

● 1941 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)

● 1952 - Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)

● 1954 - Bill Doak, baseball player (b. 1891)

● 1956 - Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (b. 1905)

● 1959 - Albert Ketèlbey, British composer (b. 1875)

● 1962 - Albert Sarraut, French politician (b. 1872)

● 1963 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (b. 1882)

● 1981 - Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b. 1901)

● 1987 - Thomas G. Lanphier, American WW II aviator (b. 1915)

● 1996 - Michael Bentine, British comedian (b. 1922)

● 1998 - Jonathan Kwitny, American investigative reporter (b. 1941)

● 2002 - Verne Winchell, American doughnut entrepreneur

● 2003 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (shot) (b. 1978)

● 2003 - Stefan Wul, French writer (b. 1922)

● 2005 - Stan Berenstain, children's author (b. 1923)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Conrad
● St. John Berchmans
● St. Alypius
● St. Amator
● St. Basolus
● St. Bellinus
● St. Dominic Doan Xuyen
● St. Faustus
● St. Leonard of Port Maurice
● St. Martin of Arades
● St. Nicon
● St. Peter of Alexandria
● St. Phileas
● St. Siricius, Pope
● St. Sylvester, abbot
● Celebration of the excellence of Saint Genevieve in Paris.

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 13 (Civil Date: November 26)
● St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople
● Martyrs Antoninus, Nicephorus, and Germanus of Caesaria in Palestine.
● Martyr Manetha of Caesaria in Palestine.
● New Martyr Damascene of Mt. Athos.
● St. Quintianus, Bishop of Clermont (Gaul).
● Repose of schema nun Irene Myrtidiotissa of Chios (1960)
● Repose of Archbishop Ioasaph of Canada (1955).

● Bahá'í Faith: Day of the Covenant

● Mongolia: Independence Day

● Russia: St. Yuri's Day (1497 - 1649)

● Lebanon : Independence Day (1941)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Massachusetts : John F Kennedy Day (1963) ( Sunday )
● Bern Switzerland : Onion Market Day-autumn festival ( Monday )
● US : Thanksgiving ( Thursday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

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