On this day in History - Nov 26

• 43 BC -The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.
• 0399 - Pope Siricius dies.
• 0597 - Pelagius II succeeded Benedict I as pope.
• 0783 - The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
• 1252 - Blanche of Castile dies (b. 1188). Queen of Louis VIII of France.
• 1288 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan was born (d. 1339)
• 1326 - Hugh the younger Despenser dies (b. 1286). English knight.
• 1436 - Princess Catherine of Portugal was born (d. 1463). Writer
• 1504 - Isabella I , Catholic Queen of Castille and Aragon (1474-1504), patron of Columbus died, in Medina del Campo .
• 1607 - John Harvard was born (d. 1638). English-born clergyman
• 1609 - Henry Dunster was born (d. 1659). English president of Harvard College.
• 1621 - Radulph Agas dies. English surveyor.
• 1639 - John Spottiswoode dies (b. 1565). Scottish historian.
• 1651 - Henry Ireton dies (b. 1611). English Civil War general.
• 1657 - William Derham was born (d. 1735). English minister and writer.
• 1678 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan was born (d. 1771). French geophysicist.
• 1688 - Louis XIV declared war on the Netherland.
• 1688 - Philippe Quinault dies (b. 1635). French writer.
• 1689 - Marquard Gude dies (b. 1635). German archaeologist.
• 1703 - Theophilus Cibber was born (d. 1758). English actor and writer.
• 1717 - Daniel Purcell dies (b. 1664). British composer.
• 1719 - John Hudson dies (b. 1662). British classical scholar.
• 1764 - A Companhia de Jesus (Jesuítas) is forbidden in França.
• 1778 - In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
• 1780 - Sir James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet dies (b. 1712). British economist.
• 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.
• 1792 - Sarah Grimke was born (d. 1873) .American abolitionist and feminist.
• 1805 - Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
• 1809 - José Estêvão was born. Portuguese parlamentar orator.
• 1825 - At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
• 1828 - René Goblet was born (d. 1905). French politician.
• 1832 - Mary Edwards Walker was born (d. 1919). American feminist physician.
• 1832 - Karl Rudolf König was born (d. 1901). German physicist.
• 1836 - John MacAdam dies (b. 1756). British road builder.
• 1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.
• 1847 - Maria Fyodorovna was born (d. 1928). Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia.
• 1851 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult dies (b. 1769). French marshal
• 1851 - Nicolas Soult dies. French general.
• 1855 - Adam Mickiewicz dies (b. 1798). Polish poet.
• 1857 - Ferdinand de Saussure was born (d. 1913). Swiss linguist.
• 1857 - Joseph von Eichendorff dies (b. 1788). German poet.
• 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 - Edward Higgins was born (d. 1947). the 3rd General of The Salvation Army.
• 1865 - Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
• 1869 - Maud, Queen of Norway was born (d. 1938)
• 1876 - Willis Carrier was born (d. 1950). American engineer and inventor.
• 1876 - Karl Ernst von Baer dies (b. 1792). German biologist.
• 1877 - Alfred Cortot was born (d. 1962). Swiss pianist.
• 1883 - Sojourner Truth dies. African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women's rights movements.
• 1885 - Heinrich Brüning was born (d. 1970). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1885 - Thomas Andrews dies (b. 1813). Irish chemist.
• 1889 - Albert Dieudonné was born (d. 1976). French actor, screenwriter and novelist.
• 1892 - Charles Lavigerie, dies (b. 1825). French catholic cardinal.
• 1894 - Nicholas II the last tsar of Russia, married Alexandra.
• 1894 - Norbert Wiener was born (d. 1964). American mathematician and founder of Cybernetics.
• 1895 - Bill Wilson was born (d. 1971). Co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous
• 1896 - Emil du Bois-Reymond dies (b. 1818). German physician.
• 1896 - Coventry Patmore dies (b. 1823). British poet.
• 1897 - Las colonias españolas de Cuba y de Puerto Rico consiguen la autonomía.
• 1898 - Karl Ziegler was born (d. 1973). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1899 - Bruno Hauptmann was born (d. 1936). German kidnapper of Charles Lindbergh III
• 1904 - Armand Frappier was born (d. 1991). French Canadian physician and microbiologist.
• 1905 - Bob Johnson was born (d. 1982). American baseball player.
• 1905 - Emlyn Williams was born in Pen-y-ffordd, Flintshire, NE Wales, UK (d.1987). Actor, playwright and director, best known for his play 'Night Must Fall'.
• 1907 - Ruth Patrick was born. American Botanist
• 1908 - Lefty Gomez was born (d. 1989). American baseball player.
• 1908 - Charles Forte was born. Scottish Hotelier
• 1909 - Eugène Ionesco born (d. 1994), Romanian-born French playwright, one of the chief exponents of the movement known as theater of the absurd.
• 1909 - Frances Dee was born (d. 2004). American actress.
• 1910 - Cyril Cusack was born (d. 1993). Irish actor.
• 1911 - Mário Lago was born (d. 2002). Brazilian actor, composer and poet.
• 1912 - Eric Sevareid was born (d. 1992). American journalist.
• 1915 - Earl Wild was born. American pianist
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
• 1919 - Frederik Pohl was born. American science fiction writer
• 1920 - Daniel Petrie was born (d. 2004). Canadian-born television and movie director.
• 1922 - Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (d.2000). Strip cartoonist, creator of 'Peanuts'.
• 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).
• 1923 - Pat Phoenix was born in Portnum, County Galway, Ireland (d.1986). British actress best known as Elsie Tanner in the television soap 'Coronation Street'
• 1924 - George Segal was born (d. 2000). American Pop Sculptor.
• 1925 - Eugene Istomin was born (d. 2003). American pianist.
• 1927 - Ernie Coombs was born (d. 2001). American children's entertainer.
• 1931 - Adrianus Johannes Simonis was born. Cardinal Archbishop of Utrecht
• 1931 - Adolfo Perez Esquivel was born in Buenos Aires. Argentinian activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Price in 1980.
• 1933 - Robert Goulet was born. American singer and actor
• 1934 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky dies (b. 1866).Ukrainian historian and statesman.
• 1937 - Boris Yegorov was born. Soviet cosmonaut
• 1938 - Porter J. Goss was born. American politician and Central Intelligence Agency director
• 1938 - Rodney Jory was born. Australian physicist
• 1938 - Rich Little was born. Canadian comedian and actor
• 1939 - Tina Turner was born. American singer and actress
• 1939 - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia
• 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.
• 1939 - Tina Turner was born. American singer and actress.
• 1941 - US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
• 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 - Lebanon gains independence from France.
• 1941 - World War II: The Hull note ultimatum is delivered to Japan by the United States.
• 1941 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen dies (b. 1861). Danish sculptor and ceramist.
• 1941 - Ernest Lapointe dies (b. 1876). French Canadian politician.
• 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 - World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
• 1942 - Premiere of the motion picture Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid, at the Hollywood Theater in New York City. Casablanca became one of Hollywood's most revered films.
• 1943 - Bruce Paltrow was born (d. 2002). American producer and director.
• 1943 - Edward O'Hare dies (b. 1914). American ace pilot.
• 1944 - Jean Terrell was born. American singer (The Supremes)
• 1945 - Daniel Davis was born. American actor
• 1945 - John McVie was born. British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
• 1946 - Art Shell was born. American football player and coach
• 1947 - Susanne Zenor was born. American actress
• 1948 - Fausto was born. Portuguese singer.
• 1948 - Krešimir Ćosić was born (d. 1995). Croatian basketball player.
• 1948 - Shlomo Artzi was born. Israeli singer
• 1948 - Claes Elfsberg was born. Swedish television presenter
• 1949 - India became a sovereign democratic republic. India adopted a constitution as a federal republic. Pandit Nehru became Prime Minister
• 1949 - Vincent A. Mahler was born. Political Scientist and professor at Loyola University Chicago
• 1949 - Juanin Clay was born (d. 1995). American actress.
• 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.
• 1951 - Cicciolina [Ilona Staler] was born. Italian actress and politician.
• 1952 - Sven Hedin dies (b. 1865). Swedish explorer.
• 1953 - Harry Carson was born. American football player
• 1954 - Velupillai Prabakharan was born. Leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E)
• 1954 - Bill Doak dies (b. 1891). Baseball player.
• 1956 - Dale Jarrett was born. American race car driver
• 1956 - Tommy Dorsey dies (b. 1905). American bandleader.
• 1959 - Albert Ketèlbey dies (b. 1875). British composer.
• 1960 - Harold Reynolds was born. American baseball player
• 1962 - Chuck Finley was born. American baseball pitcher
• 1962 - Albert Sarraut dies (b. 1872). French politician.
• 1963 - Amelita Galli-Curci dies (b. 1882). Italian soprano.
• 1964 - Vreni Schneider was born. Swiss alpine skier who won three Olympic gold medals and was the dominant female skier of her era and one of the greatest skiers in the history of the slalom and giant slalom events.
• 1965 - Launching of the first French satellite, Astérix, in the Sahara Desert
• 1967 - Ridley Jacobs was born. West Indian cricketer
• 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 - British rock band Cream play their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
• 1968 - Arnold Zweig dies. German writer.
• 1969 - Shawn Kemp was born. American basketball player
• 1970 - Dave Hughes was born. Australian comedian
• 1970 - Alex Taylor was born. Latin porn star
• 1970 - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record.
• 1971 - Ronald "Winky" Wright was born. American boxer
• 1972 - Arjun Rampal was born. Indian actor
• 1973 - Peter Facinelli was born. American actor
• 1975 - Patrice Lauzon was born. French Canadian figure skater
• 1976 - Maven Huffman was born. American professional wrestler
• 1976 - Brian Schneider was born. Baseball player
• 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.
• 1977 - 'Vrillon', representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for five minutes at 5:12 PM.
• 1977 - Ivan Basso was born. Italian professional road bicycle racer
• 1977 - Forrest Griffin was born. American MMA-fighter
• 1978 - Matthew Taylor was bornn. Bassist for Motion City Soundtrack
• 1979 - Deborah Secco was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1980 - Satoshi Ohno was born. Japanese singer and actor
• 1981 - Stephan Andersen was born. Danish international football player
• 1981 - Natasha Bedingfield was born. British singer
• 1981 - Aurora Snow was born. American pornographic actress
• 1981 - Gina Kingsbury was born. Gold medalist ice hockey player.
• 1981 - Max Euwe dies (b. 1901). Dutch chess player.
• 1983 - Brinks Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are taken from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport
• 1985 - US President Ronald Reagan signs over rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.
• 1985 - Lil' Fizz was born. American singer
• 1986 - Iran-Contra scandal: US President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
• 1986 - The New Yorker publishes Susan Sontag's AIDS short story, "The Way We Live Now"
• 1986 - Trevor Morgan was born. American actor
• 1987 - The very first World Wrestling Entertainment Survivor Series took place in Richfield, Ohio
• 1987 - Thomas G. Lanphier dies (b. 1915). American WW II aviator.
• 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.
• 1990 - Vergílio Ferreira, Portuguese writer wins, in Paris, the Fémina Prize for foreigner literature with "Manhã Submersa".
• 1990 - The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
• 1991 - Bob Johnson dies (b. 19321). National Hockey League coach.
• 1996 - Michael Bentine dies (b. 1922). British comedian
• 1997 - In Indonesia a recent visitor reported that some 40,000 Indonesian troops were stationed in East Timor among a population of 800,000
• 1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
• 1998 - Jonathan Kwitny dies (b. 1941).American investigative reporter.
• 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.
• 2002 - Verne Winchell dies. American doughnut entrepreneur
• 2003 - Last flight of Concorde.
• 2003 - Soulja Slim dies shot (b. 1978). American rapper.
• 2003 - Stefan Wul dies (b. 1922). French writer.
• 2004 - Philippe de Broca dies (b. 1933). French film director.
• 2005 - Stan Berenstain dies (b. 1923). Children's author
• Mongolia: Independence Day
• Bahá'í Faith: Day of the Covenant
• R.C. saints - Pope Siricius; celebration of the excellence of Saint Genevieve in Paris.