This Day in History for 26th November

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 171

43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.
579 - Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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.
1527 - Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I
1580 - French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty
1598 - Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java
1648 - Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westfalen
1688 - Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg
1688 - French King Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands
1688 - King James II escapes back to London
1702 - Premiere of Colley Cibber's "King Imposter"
1703 - Great storm hits Southern England 1000s killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1500 seamen
1716 - 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1741 - French & Beiers army occupies Prague
1764 - France bans Jesuit enorde
1778 - Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1784 - Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
1789 - 1st national Thanksgiving
The Sun King Louis XIV 1793 - Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1805 - Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
1825 - 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1832 - 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12 cent fare)
1835 - HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ
1841 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan
1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1847 - Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice," premieres in Paris
1859 - Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical All the Year Round
1861 - West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virg
1863 - -Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA
1864 - Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia
1864 - Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal/Waynesboro, Georgia
1865 - "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in US
1865 - Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
Author of Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1867 - Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
1868 - 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th & Folsom
1885 - 1st meteor photograph
1894 - King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France
1895 - Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms
1896 - 1st large indoor football game, U of Chic beats U of Mich 7-6
1896 - A A Stagg of U Chicago creates American football huddle
1898 - -27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die
1898 - SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed
1909 - Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
1910 - 2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers, 16-7
1913 - Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
1913 - Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
1914 - Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die
1916 - Greece declares war on Germany
1918 - The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
Archaeologist and Discoverer of Tutankhamun Howard Carter 1922 - English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Toetanchamon's (Tut) tomb
1924 - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1925 - Neth & Germany sign trade agreement
1927 - 15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6
1928 - Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily," premieres in Dresden
1928 - Philip Barry's "Holiday," premieres in NYC
1932 - Bradman completes 10000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings
1933 - Camille Chautemps becomes French premier
1934 - German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to nazi
1934 - Turkish regiment decrees importing family names
1939 - 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
1940 - Leidse students strike
1940 - Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
1941 - Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro
1941 - British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs
1941 - British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda
1941 - Japanese carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor
1941 - Lebanon gains independence from France
1942 - "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC
1942 - Anti fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
1944 - 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor
1944 - Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoriums
1945 - During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)
1948 - Belgian government of Spaak, resigns
1949 - 37th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 28-15
1949 - India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1950 - China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
1952 - 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil," premieres in Hollywood
1953 - KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening
1954 - Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
1955 - "Boy Friend" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 483 performances
1955 - 43rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-19
1955 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus
Country Singer Johnny Cash 1955 - Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!"
1956 - "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
1956 - USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it sinks
1957 - WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 - 48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6
1960 - Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
1961 - For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
1961 - Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball
1962 - 1st recording session under name "Beatles"
1962 - Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
1962 - Fab Four have their 1st recording session under name Beatles
1963 - 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)
1963 - Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of Year
1963 - Explorer 18 launched
1965 - Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 222

1288 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
1436 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)
1607 - John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ
1609 - Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
1640 - Carl Rosier, composer
1653 - Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer
1657 - William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
1663 - Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas)
1678 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)
1703 - Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
1731 - William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) [NS]
1736 - Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France)
1744 - Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer
1754 - Georg Forster, writer
1795 - Carl P Fohr, German painter
1795 - Cornelis P J Elout, Dutch military/resident of West Sumatra
1809 - Mariano Obiols, composer
1810 - William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British industralist (hydraulic crane)
1816 - William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General (Confederate Army)
1818 - Louis Lacombe, composer
1823 - Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer
1827 - Alfred Moore Scales, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1827 - Ellen G. White, American religious leader (d. 1915)
1828 - René Goblet, French politician (d. 1905)
1832 - Mary Edwards Walker, US, doctor/women's rights leader
1832 - Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)
1847 - Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
1850 - Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929)
1857 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
1858 - Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic Saint (d. 1955)
1862 - Mark A Stein, archaeologist
1864 - Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem)
1865 - Earl Ross Drake, composer
1869 - Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
1874 - Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French author (Ecoute Israel)
1876 - Bart A van der Leck, Dutch painter (Style)
1876 - Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment
1885 - Heinrich Brüning, German politician (d. 1970)
1888 - Franz Jung, writer
1889 - Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (d. 1976)
1892 - Joe Guyon, NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc)
1894 - Norbert Wiener, US, mathematician/discovered cybernetics
1894 - James Charles McGuigan, Catholic cardinal archbishop of Toronto (d. 1974)
1895 - Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer (Milky Way system)
1895 - William Wilson (Bill), East Dorset, Vermont, co-founder (alcoholics anonymous), (d. 1971)
Chemist/Nobel Laureate Karl Ziegler (1898) 1898 - Karl Ziegler, Helsa, German Empire, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (polymers), (d. 1973)
1899 - Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
1901 - Philippus J Idenburg, Dutch statistician
1902 - Alberto Morin, PR, actor (Armando-Dallas)
1902 - Gerrit Jan van der Veen, [Wolffensperger], Dutch resistance fighter
1904 - Armand Frappier, French-Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)
1905 - George Emlyn Williams, Wales, actor/playwright (David Copperfield)
1905 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1906 - Sandro Fuga, composer
1907 - Frances Dee, LA California, actress (Of Human Bondage)
1907 - Ruth Patrick, American botanist
1908 - Charles Forte, Italian/British hotel magnate (Savoy)
1908 - Lefty Gomez, baseball pitcher
1908 - Philipp Mohler, composer
1909 - Eugene Ionesco, playwright
1909 - Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
1910 - Cyril Cusack, Durban Natal South Africa, actor (Day of the Jackal)
1911 - Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs
1911 - Ronald Diggens, English fabric manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1911 - Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster/prodigy
1912 - Eric Sevareid, Velva ND, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1912 - Eugene Ionesco, Slatina Romania, dramatist (Rhinoceros)
1912 - Gunnar Johannes Sonstevold, composer
1913 - Foy Draper, US, relay runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1913 - Joshua William Steward, polymath
1915 - Earl Wild, Pitts Pa, composer/pianist (Caesar's Hour, NBC Symph 1942)
1915 - Herbert Joeks, [Herbert J van Hugten], Dutch actor (Snip & Snap, Pipo)
1916 - Bob Elliot, baseball player
1916 - Mareo Ishiketa, composer
1918 - Patricio Aylwin, president of Chile (1990-94)
1919 - Frederik Pohl, US, sci-fi author (3 Hugo, Gateway, Bipohl)
1920 - Istvan Sarkozy, composer
1920 - Paul T B Rodenko, poet/author (Stolen Lover)
1920 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (d. 2004)
1921 - Francoise Gilot, painter, designer, author living legacy award, 1984
1921 - Verghese Kurien, Calicut, British India, engineer (billion-litre idea), (d.2012)
1922 - Adele Jergens, Brooklyn NY, actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man)
Cartoonist Charles M Schulz (1922) 1922 - Charles M Schulz, Minneapolis MN, cartoonist (Peanuts), (d. 2000)
1923 - Patricia Phoenix, County Galway Ireland, actress (L Shaped Room)
1924 - George Segal, New York, American painter and sculptor of lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver)
1924 - Jasu Patel, cricketer (Indian off-spinner, 9-69 v Aust 1959)
1925 - Eugene Istomin, NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award-1943)
1925 - Linda Hunt, Morriston NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)
1926 - Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner
1926 - Mauro Bortolotti, composer
1927 - John Carter, Center Ridge Ark, actor (Max-Falcon Crest)
1927 - Ernie Coombs, American children's entertainer (d. 2001)
1929 - Betta St John, Hawthorne California, actress (Corridors of Blood)
1929 - Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
1930 - Berthold Leibinger, German Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
1931 - Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Buenos Argentina, (1980 Nobel Peace Prize)
1931 - Adrianus J "Cardinal" Simonis, archbishop of Utrecht
1931 - Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1932 - Alan Stout, composer
1932 - Marten Beinema, Dutch MP (CDA)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

1924 - Comic actor Charlie Chaplin (35) weds "The Kid" actress Lita Grey (16) in Mexico
1981 - Legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (55) weds "Sounder" actress Cicely Tyson (47) at the home of actor Bill Cosby
1993 - The chief political strategist for President Clinton's campaign and political commentator James Carville (49) weds Republican political pundit Mary Matalin (40) in New Orleans, Louisiana
2011 - "The Sugarland" singer Jennifer Nettles (37) weds entrepreneur Justin Miller at a chapel nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 124

399 - Pope Staint Siricius, reigned 384-99
666 - Yeon Gaesomun dictator of Goguryeo (other sources indicate death date as 664 or 665)
1126 - Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated
1240 - Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/saint, dies
1252 - Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (b. 1188)
1267 - Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies
1326 - Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (b. 1286)
1504 - Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
1621 - Radulph Agas, English surveyor (C. 1540)
1639 - John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (b. 1565)
1651 - Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40
1653 - Maximilian Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 51
1688 - Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53
1689 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (b. February 1, 1635)
1717 - Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
1719 - John Hudson, British classical scholar (b. 1662)
1776 - Dov Baer of Mezhirech, hassidic rabbi, dies
1778 - Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68
1780 - James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (b. 1712)
1809 - Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer, dies at 56
1810 - Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer, dies at 65
1821 - Friedrich Heine, composer, dies at 57
1822 - Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer, dies at 53
1836 - John MacAdam, British road builder (b. 1756)
1851 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (b. 1769)
1854 - Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies
1855 - Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56
1857 - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69
1866 - Adrien Francois Servais, composer, dies at 59
1866 - Carl Jonas Love Almquist, composer, dies at 72
1880 - Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer, dies at 52
1882 - Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier of Prussia, dies
1883 - Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96
1885 - Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71
1892 - Charles Lavigerie, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1825)
1896 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (b. 1818)
1896 - Coventry Patmore, British poet (b. 1823)
1918 - Charlie McLeod, cricketer (all-rounder for Australia 1894-1905), dies
1923 - Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60
1925 - Johannes Haarklou, composer, dies at 78
1926 - John M Brown, US weapons constructer, dies
1927 - Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47
1928 - Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I), dies at 65
1929 - Michele Esposito, composer, dies at 74
1933 - Edward Julius Biedermann, composer, dies at 84
1934 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b.1866)
1938 - Henry Schultz, US farm commune, dies
1941 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)
1941 - Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (b. 1876)
1943 - Edward H "Butch" O'hare, US pilot/lt-comdr, dies in battle
1950 - Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83
1952 - Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
1954 - Bill Doak, former Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1891)
1956 - Tommy Dorsey, big bandleader, dies at 51
1957 - Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies
1957 - Billy Bevan, actor (White Sin), dies at 70
1959 - Albert William Ketelby, composer, dies at 84
1959 - Albert Ketèlbey, British composer (b. 1875)
1961 - Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer, dies at 86
1962 - Albert P Sarraut, Indo-China premier (1933, 36), dies at 90
1963 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano, dies
1965 - Wild Bill Elliott, cowboy actor (49'ers), dies of cancer at 60
1966 - Harold Burrage, US singer/pianist (Got to Find a Way), dies at 35
1966 - Siegfried Kracauer, writer, dies at 77
1968 - Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81
1970 - B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago
1971 - Joe Adonis, US crime-syndicate boss in NY & NJ, dies at 68
1973 - John Rostill, rocker, dies at 31
1974 - Cyril Connolly, English intellectual (b. September 10, 1903)
1980 - Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53
1981 - Machgielis "Max" Euwe, world chess champion (1935-37), dies at 80
1982 - Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at 73
1982 - Juhan Aavic, composer, dies at 98
1982 - Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe), dies at 73
1985 - Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of Bride), dies at 87
1986 - Betico Croes, Arubian politician, dies in an accident at 48
1986 - Scatman Crothers, singer/actor (Shining, Chico & The Man), dies at 76
1987 - Emmanuel Bondeville, composer, dies at 89
1987 - Thomas G Lanphier Jr, US WW II pilot, dies at 71
1989 - Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores, dies
1990 - David White, actor (Bewitched), dies of heart attack at 74
1991 - Bob Johnson, US hockey coach (Pittsburgh Penguins), dies at 60
1991 - Dehl Berti, actor (Bullies), dies of heart attack at 70
1991 - Francois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Phila
1991 - Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft; b. 1908)
1992 - Stephen Burks, actor (Kiss of a Killer), dies at 36
1993 - Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death
1993 - Mart Kempers, sculptor, dies at 69
1994 - Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71
1994 - David Bache, designer, dies at 69
1994 - Nimrod Workman, folksinger, dies at 99
1994 - Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
1995 - Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher, dies at 106
1995 - David Briggs, record producer, dies at 51
1995 - Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52
1995 - Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner, dies at 79
1995 - Terri Jewell, writer, dies at 40
1996 - Euphemia MacDonald May Moxon, dance producer, dies at 91
1996 - Hans Klein, politician, dies at 65
1996 - Joan Hammond, singer, dies at 84