About November 26
November 26, 2025 is the 330th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 35 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 83 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 26
- 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.
- 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 –President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).
- 1865 –Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy Schooner is defeated by a Chilean Corvette north of Valparaiso, Chile.
- 1918 –The Podgorica Assembly votes for “union of the people”, declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
- 1922 –Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between is the first film to do so but it is not widely distributed).
- 1922 –Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: HMT Rohna sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
- 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 United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
- 1990 –The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
- 2003 –Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
- 2004 –Male Po'ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
- 2008 –2008 Mumbai attacks by Pakistan-sponsored Lashkar-e-Taiba
- 2011 –2011 NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
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