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What happened in history on this day: November 26?
On November 26 in ...
- 399 - Saint Siricius ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 579 - Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1497 - King Hans of Denmark and Norway is acclaimed King of Sweden.
- 1607 - Birth of John Harvard England, clergyman/scholar, major benefactor to Harvard University (library and half his estate).
- 1703 - Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships.
- 1703 - A severe storm destroys the Eddystone lighthouse off Plymouth, Devon, England, killing resident designer Mr. Winstanley.
- 1716 - First lion exhibited in America (Boston).
- 1731 - Birth of William Cowper England, preromantic poet (His Task).
- 1778 - Captain Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands).
- 1789 - First national thanksgiving.
- 1825 - First college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, New York)).
- 1857 - Birth of Ferdinand de Saussure in Switzerland; linguist (Cours de Laguistique Generale).
- 1861 - At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West Virginia.
- 1876 - Birth of Willis Haviland Carrier; developed air-conditioning equipment.
- 1883 - Sojourner Truth, US abolitionist, women's rights advocate, dies.
- 1892 - Birth of Joe Guyon; NFL halfback (Canton Bulldogs, Washington Senators, Union Quakers of Philadelphia, Cleveland Indians, Oorang Indians, Rock Island Independents, Kansas City Cowboys, New York Giants).
- 1893 - The Exposicion de Puerto Rico opens in San Juan, Puerto Rico, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the island's discovery by Christopher Columbus.
- 1894 - Birth of Norbert Wiener; US mathematician, discovered cybernetics.
- 1896 - First large indoor football game, University of Chicago beats University of Michigan 7-6.
- 1896 - A.A. Stagg of University of Chicago creates the football huddle.
- 1902 - Birth of Alberto Morin in Puerto Rico; actor (Armando - Dallas).
- 1905 - Birth of Emlyn Williams in Wales; actor/playwright (David Copperfield).
- 1907 - Birth of Frances Dee; US actress (Of Human Bondage).
- 1910 - Birth of Cyril Cusack in South Africa; actress (Day of the Jackal).
- 1912 - Birth of Eric Sevareid in Velva, North Dakota, USA; CBS newsman and commentator for 38 years (CBS Weekend News).
- 1912 - Birth of Eugene Ionesco in France; dramatist (Rhinoceros).
- 1913 - Birth of Foy Draper; US relay runner (Olympic-gold-1936).
- 1915 - Birth of Earl Wild in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; pianist (Caesar's Hour, NBC Symphony 1942).
- 1920 - Birth of Daniel Petrie at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada; TV and stage director/actor (50 years, won 8 Emmy awards, Joe and Mabel TV show, The Hidden Room TV show, Stud's Place TV show, Eleanor & Franklin TV show, The Dollmaker TV show, Studio 1 TV show).
- 1922 - Birth of Adele Jergens in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man).
- 1922 - Birth of Charles M. Schulz in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; cartoonist (Peanuts, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973, Emmy award).
- 1922 - At the burial tomb of King Tutankhamen in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, Howard Carter views inside a second doorway into the burial chamber, seeing "everywhere the glint of gold".
- 1924 - Birth of George Segal in New York, USA; sculptor lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver).
- 1924 - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed.
- 1925 - Birth of Eugene Istomin in New York City, New York, USA; pianist (Leventritt Award-1943).
- 1925 - Birth of Linda Hunt in Morriston, New Jersey, USA; actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado).
- 1927 - Birth of Ernie Coombs in Lewiston, Maine, USA; actor (Mr. Dressup TV show (1967-1996)).
- 1927 - Birth of John Carter in Center Ridge, Arkansas, USA; actor (Max - Falcon Crest).
- 1929 - Birth of Betta Saint John in Hawthorne, California, USA; actress (Corridors of Blood).
- 1931 - Birth of Adolfo Perez Esquivel in Buenos Aires, Argentina; activist (1980 Nobel Peace Prize).
- 1931 - Birth of Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo in Italy; downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1952).
- 1933 - Birth of Robert Goulet AKA Stanley Applebaum in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA; singer (Cross Canada Hit Parade TV show, Grammy award 1962, "My Love Forgive Me" album (1964)), actor (Camelot, Naked Gun 2 1/2).
- 1934 - Birth of Ludmila Shevtsova in USSR; 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1960).
- 1935 - Birth of Marian Mercer in Akron, Ohio, USA; actress/singer (Dean Martin Show, St. Elsewhere, It's a Living, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman).
- 1937 - Birth of Boris Yegorov; cosmonaut (Voskhod 1).
- 1937 - Birth of Leo Lacroix in France; skier (Olympic-silver-1964).
- 1938 - Birth of Rich Little in Ottawa, Canada; impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop).
- 1938 - Birth of Tina Turner AKA Anna Mae Bullock in Brownsville, Texas, USA; singer ("Proud Mary").
- 1939 - Finland rejects the Soviet demand for military bases on her territory.
- 1940 - Germans force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto.
- 1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt signs a bill officially establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
- 1941 - A Japanese task force of six aircraft carriers, two battleships, and several destroyers and cruisers begins sailing from northern Japan to Hawaii.
- 1941 - Amateur tennis champion Bobby Riggs turns pro.
- 1941 - Lebanon gains independence from France.
- 1942 - Birth of Olivia Cole in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; actress (Roots, Szysznyk).
- 1943 - Birth of Jan Stenerud in Norway; NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs).
- 1945 - Birth of John McVie; rocker (Fleetwood Mac - "Rumours", "Tusk").
- 1945 - Birth of Mikhail Woronin in USSR; gymnast (Olympic-2 gold/4 silver/bronze-1968).
- 1945 - During snow storm, school bus crashes, killing 15 (Washington).
- 1948 - Birth of Galina Prozumenschikova in USSR; 200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1964).
- 1949 - India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic.
- 1950 - China enters Korean conflict, sending troops across Yalu River.
- 1952 - Birth of Wendy Turnbell in Australia; tennis player (1979,1982 US Opens Double).
- 1952 - The 40th Grey Cup game becomes Canada's first televised football game as CBLT-TV shows hometown Toronto Argonauts beating Edmonton Eskimos 21-11.
- 1956 - Birth of Elizabeth Savage; actress (Loving, General Hospital, Image Workshop).
- 1959 - Birth of Jamie Rose in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Susan Birch - St Elsewhere, Falcon Crest).
- 1961 - Birth of Marcy Walker; actress (All My Children, Eden - Santa Barbara).
- 1963 - Birth of Allyson Rice-Taylor; actress (Connor - As the World Turns).
- 1965 - France launches first satellite, 92 pounds (42kg) A1-capsule (Asterix), becoming third nation in space.
- 1966 - First major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France.
- 1968 - Death of Arnold Zweig in East Berlin, Germany; writer (Junge Frau von 1914 (1931), Erziehung vor Verdun (1935), Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa (1927)).
- 1969 - Cream's final concert (Royal Albert Hall).
- 1972 - Pete Gogolak scores New York Giants record 8 points after a touchdown.
- 1973 - Birth of Kristin Bauer; actress (Two and a Half Men, Justice League, Total Security).
- 1973 - Birth of Peter Facinelli; actor (Six Feet Under, Fastlane).
- 1973 - Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed to death.
- 1973 - US President Richard Nixon's personal secretary, 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 - The Canadian Radio-Television Commission orders Canadian TV cable companies to black out identical US programs available on Canadian television at the same time.
- 1975 - US Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford.
- 1976 - Birth of Maia Campbell; actress (South Central).
- 1978 - Ten die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, New York.
- 1980 - Birth of Jessica Bowman; actress (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, The Road Home).
- 1980 - Death of Rachael Roberts at age 53 of barbiturate poisoning; British actress (The Tony Randall Show, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Marcus Welby MD).
- 1982 - Clyde King named New York Yankees' manager.
- 1982 - Death of Dan Tobin at age 73; actor (25 years on TV, Perry Mason, I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian).
- 1982 - Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by the Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch.
- 1982 - Robert Coote, actor (Timmy - Rogues, Theodore - Nero Wolfe), dies of a heart attack in New York City at age 73.
- 1984 - John W Mercom Junior announces New Orleans Saints are up for sale for US$75 million.
- 1985 - Birth of Lil Fizz; singer (82K).
- 1985 - 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched.
- 1985 - Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of the Bride), dies at age 87.
- 1985 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan sells the rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.
- 1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces that former Senator John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft will serve as members of the Special Review Board looking into the Iran-Contra arms scandal (they became known as the Tower Commission). Reagan denies involvement in the scandal.
- 1986 - Paramount releases the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home to theaters.
- 1987 - Birth of Aubrey Collins; inger (Trick Pony).
- 1987 - Tokyo Disneyland welcomes its 50-millionth guest.
- 1988 - Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev, and Jean-Loup Chretien launch into space.
- 1988 - Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 million km).
- 1990 - Buffalo Bills become 6th first place NFL team to lose on same weekend.
- 1990 - Matsushita Electric purchases MCA for US$6.6 billion, the largest ever Japanese purchase of a US company.
- 1990 - Russia's Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait.
- 1991 - Death of Dehl Berti at age 70 of a heart attack; actor (Paradise TV show, Buck James, Operation Neptune, The Edge of Night, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo).
- 1994 - The first Beatles record ever to be played on radio ("Love Me Do", played by Radio Luxembourg in 1963) sells for CDN$23,000 at an auction in London, England, a world record price for a commercially produced record.
- 1996 - Near San Luis, Santa Barbara, Honduras, a meteorite slams into a sparsely populated area, leaving a 165-foot-wide crater.
- 1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Dáil Éireann, the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
- 1998 - Japan-China Joint Declaration On Building a Partnership of Friendship and Cooperation for Peace and Development.
- 1999 - In Vanuatu Islands, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and tsunami occur. At least ten people are killed.
- 1999 - The Norwegian passenger ferry MS Sleipner sinks, killing 16 people on board.
- 2000 - The BC Lions win the Canadian Football League Championship for the first time since 1994, defeating the Montreal Alouettes 28-26 in the 88th Grey Cup at McMahon Stadium in Calgary, Alberta.
- 2002 - Legislation by the European Court of Human Rights and Law Lords, ruling in favour of convicted murderer Anthony Anderson, officially ends the right of the Home Secretary to set minimum terms for convicted murderers. This gives hope of a quicker release for more than 200 convicted murderers whose minimum terms were increased by politicians, including an estimated 70 who have already served longer than their original recommended minimum term.
- 2003 - Death of Soulja Slim at age 25, shot to death in front of his home in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; rapper (Juvenile - "Slow Motion").
- 2004 - A group of Iraqi political leaders, primarily from Sunni and Kurdish parties, advocate a six-month delay in popular elections scheduled for January 2005.
- 2004 - An oil tanker sppills as much as 1.8 million litres of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, USA.
- 2005 - The Safeway brand in the United Kingdom retail disappears after 43 years of operation due to its takeover by Wm Morrison Supermarkets.
- 2005 - B.J. Ryan agrees to a $47 million, five-year deal with the Toronto Blue Jays.
- 2005 - Death of Irving Ludwig, president of Buena Vista Distribution.
- 2006 - US Judge James Robertson orders the US Treasury to change the dollar bill.
- 2008 - Ten heavily-armed gunmen launch co-ordinated attacks at five locations across India's financial capital of Mumbai, killing 174 people, wounding 295, and holding several people hostage through the night at two luxury hotels, the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower and the Oberoi. An organization calling itself the Deccan Mujahedeen claims responsibility for the attacks.
- 2008 - Death of the oldest living person, Edna Parker of Shelbyville, Indiana, at age 115.
- 2011 - The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, the most elaborate Martian exploration vehicle to date, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. It is slated to land on Mars on August 5, 2012.
- 2012 - Death of Joseph Murray, American Nobel surgeon (born 1919).
- 2018 - Scientist He Jiankui of Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, announces he had altered genes of a human embryo to create the first designer baby, by deleting a gene that makes humans susceptible to HIV.
- 2018 - NASA's InSight probe successfully lands on the surface of Mars.
- 2018 - Death of Bernardo Bertolucci at age 77 of cancer in Rome, Italy; Italian film director (Last Tango in Paris movie, The Last Emperor movie).
- 2019 - 51 people are killed and around 2,000 others injured in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Albania. The earthquake is the strongest to hit Albania in more than 40 years.
- 2020 - Death of Sadiq al-Mahdi, 7th Prime Minister of Sudan (born 1935).
- 2020 - Death of Tevita Momoedonu, 5th Prime Minister of Fiji (born 1946).
- 2021 - The World Health Organization convenes an emergency meeting in Geneva amid concerns over Omicron, a highly mutated variant of COVID-19 first identified in South Africa that appears more infectious than Delta.
- 2021 - Death of Stephen Sondheim at age 91; American musical theatre lyricist and composer (Gypsy (1959), Company (1970), Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962)).
- 2022 - Death of Doddie Weir at age 52; British rugby player (Scotland and Lions).
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