Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 26
This is a list of selected November 26 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Josip Broz Tito -
Satellite view of Maui -
James Cook -
The gold funerary mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamun -
Howard Carter -
Wall decorations in KV62's burial chamber -
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct -
Nicolae Iorga -
Explosion on HMS Bulwark
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| and John Berchmans | refimprove section |
| , and Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodox Church) | refimprove |
| 43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed the Second Triumvirate alliance. | refimprove section |
| 1778 – An expedition led by James Cook reached Maui, the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands. | unreferenced section |
| 1865 – Chincha Islands War: Chilean forces defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Papudo, a naval engagement in the Pacific Ocean north of Valparaíso, Chile. | unreferenced, short |
| 1970 – About 38 mm (1.5 in) of rain fell in one minute at Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe, the most intense rainfall in a short period recorded by modern methods. | date not cited |
| 2004 – One of the last known male Poʻouli died in Olinda, Hawaii, before biologists could find a mate for it, making the species in all probability extinct. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1805 – The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the longest aqueduct in Great Britain and the highest canal aqueduct in the world, opened.
- 1914 – A large internal explosion destroyed HMS Bulwark near Sheerness, killing 741 people on board.
- 1917 – Being unable to resolve disputes with Eddie Livingstone, owner of the Toronto Blueshirts, the other ice hockey clubs of Canada's National Hockey Association officially agreed to break away and form the National Hockey League.
- 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, which had remained undiscovered since the 20th Dynasty.
- 1939 – The Soviet Red Army shelled the village of Mainila and then claimed that the fire originated from Finland, giving them a casus belli to launch the Winter War a few days later.
- 1940 – The Iron Guard killed 64 political detainees at a penitentiary near Bucharest and followed up with several high-profile assassinations, including that of former Romanian prime minister Nicolae Iorga.
- 1942 – Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City to coincide with the Allied invasion of French North Africa and the capture of Casablanca.
- 1942 – World War II: Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans convened the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
- 1943 – Second World War: The British troop ship HMT Rohna was sunk in the Mediterranean by a Luftwaffe bomb, killing more than 1,100 people.
- 1977 – A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted a Southern Television broadcast in South East England.
- 2008 – A coordinated group of shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai began, ultimately killing at least 174 people and wounding more than 300 others.
- 2011 – NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory mission from Cape Canaveral, carrying the Curiosity rover onboard.
- Born/died this day: | William Derham |b|1657| Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan |b|1678| Artemas Ward |b|1727| Rudolph Koenig |b|1832| Major Taylor |b|1878| Sojourner Truth |d|1883| Tina Turner |b|1939| Galina Prozumenshchikova |b|1948| Fatima Massaquoi |d|1978
Notes
- Mask of Tutankhamun appears on October 28, so KV62 should not appear in the same year
- Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion appears on November 22, so the Southern Television one should not appear in the same year
November 26: Feast day of Saint Sylvester Gozzolini (Catholicism); Constitution Day in India (1949)
- 1842 – The University of Notre Dame (main building pictured) was founded by Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross as an all-male institution in the U.S. state of Indiana.
- 1852 – A massive earthquake struck the Dutch East Indies, creating a tsunami that caused major damage, washing away many villages, ships and residents.
- 1983 – Six robbers broke into a Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport in London and stole £26 million in gold, diamonds and cash.
- 2011 – U.S.-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani security forces at two Pakistani military checkposts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in a friendly fire incident.
- Ralph Agas (d. 1621)
- Helen C. White (b. 1896)
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (b. 1931)