On this day in History - Nov 26

• 1504 - Isabella I , Catholic Queen of Castille and Aragon (1474-1504), patron of Columbus died, in Medina del Campo
• 1688 - Louis XIV declared war on the Netherland
• 1764 - A Companhia de Jesus (Jesuítas) is forbidden in França.
• 1789 - George Washington proclaimed on Oct 3 that Nov 26 be a National Thanksgiving Day in honor of the new Constitution. He made it clear that the day should be one of prayer and giving thanks to God, to be celebrated by all the religious denominations. In 1863 Pres. Lincoln designated the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day
• 1897 - Las colonias españolas de Cuba y de Puerto Rico consiguen la autonomía.
• 1909 - Eugène Ionesco born (1909-1994), Romanian-born French playwright, one of the chief exponents of the movement known as theater of the absurd.
• 1931 - Adolfo Perez Esquivel (1980 Nobel Peace Prize) born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 1939 - Tina Turner born, American singer
• 1941 - Lebanon gains independence from France.
• 1942 - Opening of the motion picture Casablanca (with Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart), at the Hollywood Theater in New York
• 1949 - India became a sovereign democratic republic. India adopted a constitution as a federal republic. Pandit Nehru became Prime Minister
• 1951 - La Cicciolina, [Ilona Staller], Italian MP, was born in Budapest, Hungary
• 1965 - Launching of the first French satellite, Astérix 1.
• 1988 - PLO leader refused entry into the US. Yasser Arafat, founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), is denied a request for a visa so that he could travel to New York City and address a United Nations session.
• 1997 - In Indonesia a recent visitor reported that some 40,000 Indonesian troops were stationed in East Timor among a population of 800,000
• 1999 - In India, at least 211 people died when two trains collided in the northern state of Punjab
• 2000 - By a huge margin Haiti's presidential election returns former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.
• 2000 - Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, a Republican, certifies Republican George W. Bush the winner over Democrat Al Gore in the state's presidential balloting by a 537-vote margin.

Em Portugal:

• 1807 - Nomeação de um Conselho de Regência, para governar Portugal na ausência do Príncipe Regente D. João que embarcou com a corte para o Brasil no dia seguinte(Invasões Francesas)