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Today November 26th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
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 Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
1476 – Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
1784 – The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
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.
1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1863 – American Civil War: Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
1865 – Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
1909 – Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
1913 – Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
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.
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).
1926 – Charles Vincent Massey assumes his post as the first Canadian Ambassador to the United States.
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.
1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
1942 – Holocaust: Shoah: 572 Norwegian Jews are deported to Auschwitz on the cargo vessel Donau. This was the first step on the journey to the Auschwitz death camp. Altogether the total number of Jews deported from Norway was 767. 25 of the deported survived.[citation needed]
1942 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihac in northwestern Bosnia.
1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth s store on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.
1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
1949 – The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India s constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People s Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and American forces (Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.
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.
1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
1977 – Vrillon , claiming to be the representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command , takes over Britain s Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.
1983 – Brinks Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
1986 – Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland s parliament.
2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
2008 – Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.
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 Grimké, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
1827 – Ellen G. White, American religious leader (d. 1915)
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)
1853 – Bat Masterson, American Old West figure (d. 1921)
1857 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
1858 – Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic Saint (d. 1955)
1864 – Edward Higgins, 3rd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1947)
1869 – Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer and inventor (d. 1950)
1878 – Marshall Taylor, American cyclist (d. 1932)
1879 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian (d. 1950)
1885 – Heinrich Brüning, German politician (d. 1970)
1889 – Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (d. 1976)
1894 – Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (d. 1964)
1894 – James Charles McGuigan, Catholic cardinal archbishop of Toronto (d. 1974)
1895 – Bill Wilson, American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
1898 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laurete (d. 1973)
1899 – Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
1904 – Armand Frappier, French-Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)
1905 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1907 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist
1908 – Charles Forte, Scottish hotelier (d. 2007)
1908 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1909 – Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
1909 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born french playwright (d. 1994)
1910 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d. 1993)
1912 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
1915 – Earl Wild, American pianist
1919 – Frederik Pohl, American science fiction writer
1920 – Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (d. 2004)
1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
1923 – Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
1924 – George Segal, American Pop Sculptor (d. 2000)
1925 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
1927 – Ernie Coombs, American children s entertainer (d. 2001)
1930 – Berthold Leibinger, German Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
1931 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1931 – Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Cardinal Archbishop of Utrecht
1933 – Robert Goulet, American singer and actor (d. 2007)
1937 – Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1994)
1938 – Porter J. Goss, American Central Intelligence Agency director
1938 – Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
1938 – Rich Little, Canadian comedian and actor
1939 – Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysian politician
1939 – Tina Turner, American singer and actress
1939 – Wayland Flowers, American Puppeteer (d. 1988)
1941 – Susanne Marsee, American mezzo-soprano
1942 – Olivia Cole, American actress
1942 – Michael Devlin, American bass-baritone
1943 – Bruce Paltrow, American producer and director (d. 2002)
1943 – Marilynne Robinson, American writer
1944 – Jean Terrell, American singer (The Supremes)
1945 – Daniel Davis, American actor
1945 – John McVie, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1945 – Björn von Sydow, Swedish politician
1946 – Art Shell, American football player and coach
1947 – Susanne Zenor, American actress
1947 – Roger Wehrli, American football player
1948 – Krešimir Cosic, Croatian basketball player (d. 1995)
1948 – Claes Elfsberg, Swedish television presenter
1948 – Marianne Muellerleile, American actress
1949 – Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
1949 – Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
1949 – Martin Lee – British singer and member of pop group Brotherhood of Man
1949 – Vincent A. Mahler, American educator
1951 – Cicciolina, Italian porno actress and politician
1953 – Hilary Benn, British politician
1953 – Harry Carson, American football player
1954 – Roz Chast, American cartoonist
1954 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan militant leader
1956 – Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
1956 – Don Lake, Canadian television writer
1956 – Keith Vaz, UK Member of Parliament
1960 – Chuck Eddy, American music journalist
1960 – Harold Reynolds, American baseball player
1961 – Lisa Moretti, American professional wrestler
1962 – Chuck Finley, American baseball pitcher
1963 – Adam Gaynor, American musician (Matchbox Twenty)
1963 – Mario Elie, American basketball player
1964 – Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier
1966 – Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian actress and model
1967 – Ridley Jacobs, West Indian cricketer
1968 – Edna Campbell, American basketball player
1969 – Shawn Kemp, American basketball player
1969 – Kara Walker, American artist
1970 – Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
1970 – John Amaechi, American basketball player
1971 – Ronald Winky Wright, American boxer
1972 – Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
1972 – Chris Osgood, Canadian hockey player (Detroit Red Wings)
1973 – Peter Facinelli, American actor
1974 – Tammy Lynn Michaels, American actress
1975 – Patrice Lauzon, French Canadian figure skater
1976 – Maven Huffman, American professional wrestler
1976 – Brian Schneider, American baseball player
1977 – Ivan Basso, Italian bicyclist
1977 – Forrest Griffin, American MMA-fighter
1977 – John Parrish, American baseball player
1977 – Paris Lenon, American football player
1978 – Matthew Taylor, American bassist (Motion City Soundtrack)
1979 – B.J. Averell, American reality television contestant
1980 – Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor
1981 – Stephan Andersen, Danish footballer
1981 – Natasha Bedingfield, British singer
1981 – Gina Kingsbury, Canadian hockey player
1981 – Natalie Gauci, Australian singer
1983 – Chris Hughes, American businessman, co-founder of Facebook
1984 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
1985 – Lil Fizz, American singer
1986 – Trevor Morgan, American actor
1986 – Konstadinos Filippidis, Greek pole vaulter
1988 – Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese fashion model
1990 – Danny Welbeck, English footballer
Deaths
399 – Pope Siricius
666 – Yeon Gaesomun dictator of Goguryeo (other sources indicate death date as 664 or 665)
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 (b. c. 1540)
1639 – John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (b. 1565)
1651 – Henry Ireton, English Civil War general (b. 1611)
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 – 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)
1883 – Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist (b. 1797)
1885 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (b. 1813)
1892 – Charles Lavigerie, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1825)
1896 – Coventry Patmore, British poet (b. 1823)
1919 – Felipe Ángeles, Mexican Revolution general (b. 1868)
1928 – Reinhard Scheer, German naval officer (b. 1863)
1934 – Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b. 1866)
1941 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)
1941 – Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (b. 1876)
1943 – Edward O Hare, American ace pilot (b. 1914)
1952 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
1954 – Bill Doak, former Major League Baseball pitcher (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)
1974 – Cyril Connolly, English intellectual (b. 1903)
1981 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b. 1901)
1987 – Thomas G. Lanphier, American aviator (b. 1915)
1991 – Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft (b. 1908)
1991 – Bob Johnson, American hockey coach (b. 1931)
1994 – David Bache, British car designer (b. 1925)
1994 – Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
1996 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b. 1914)
1996 – Michael Bentine, British comedian (b. 1922)
1998 – Jonathan Kwitny, American reporter (b. 1941)
2001 – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (b. 1943)
2002 – Verne Winchell, American doughnut entrepreneur (b. 1915)
2002 – Polo Montañez, Cuban singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
2003 – Stefan Wul, French writer (b. 1922)
2003 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)
2004 – Philippe de Broca, French film director (b. 1933)
2005 – Stan Berenstain, children s author (b. 1923)
2005 – Mark Craney, American musician (b. 1952)
2006 – Mário Cesariny, Portuguese painter and writer (b. 1923)
2006 – Raúl Velasco, Mexican television host (b. 1933)
2006 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
2006 – Casey Coleman, American television personality (b. 1951)
2006 – Stephen Heywood, American builder (b. 1969)
2006 – Isaac Gálvez, Spanish procyclist (b. 1975)
2007 – Silvestre Herrera, Mexican-born American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. (b. 1917)
2007 – Mel Tolkin, television comedy writer (b. 1913)
2008 – Edna Parker, American supercentenarian (b. 1893)
Holidays and observances
R.C. saints – Pope Siricius; Sylvester Gozzolini; John Berchmans; celebration of the excellence of Saint Genevieve in Paris.
Eastern Orthodoxy: Saint Stylianos
Bahá í Faith: Day of the Covenant
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