Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 26
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This is a list of selected November 26 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Satellite view of Maui -
Josip Tito
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The gold funerary mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamun -
Howard Carter -
Wall decorations in KV62's burial chamber -
Vlad the Impaler -
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct -
University of Notre Dame main building
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| , and Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodox Church) | stub |
| 43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed the Second Triumvirate alliance. | refimprove |
| 1476 – Vlad the Impaler defeated Basarab Laiotă with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and became the ruler of Wallachia for the third time. | refimprove section |
| 1778 – An expedition led by James Cook reached Maui, the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands. | unreferenced section |
| 1865 – Chincha Islands War: Chilean forces defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Papudo, a naval engagement in the Pacific Ocean north of Valparaíso, Chile. | unreferenced, short |
| 1942 – World War II: Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans convened the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia. | multiple issues |
| 1970 – About 38 mm (1.5 in) of rain fell in one minute at Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe, the most intense rainfall in a short period recorded by modern methods. | fact not mentioned in the article |
| 2004 – One of the last known male Poʻouli died in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before biologists could find a mate for it, making the species in all probability extinct. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1842 – The University of Notre Dame (main administration building pictured) in South Bend, Indiana, US, was founded as an all-male institution by members of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Holy Cross.
- 1917 – Unable to resolve disputes with Eddie Livingstone, owner of the Toronto Blueshirts, the other ice hockey clubs of Canada's National Hockey Association officially agreed to break away and form the National Hockey League.
- 1939 – The Soviet Red Army shelled Mainila and then claimed that the fire originated from Finland, giving them a casus belli to launch the Winter War a few days later.
- 1943 – Second World War: The British troop ship HMT Rohna was sunk in the Mediterranean by a Luftwaffe bomb, killing more than 1,100 people.
- 1950 – Korean War: With the battles of Chosin Reservoir and the Ch'ongch'on River, China launched a massive counterattack against United Nations forces.
- 1977 – A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted the Southern Television broadcast in South East England, warning viewers that "All your weapons of evil must be destroyed."
- 1983 – Six robbers broke into the Brink's-Mat warehouse at London Heathrow Airport and stole three tonnes (6,612 lb) of gold bullion, much of which has never been recovered.
- 2008 – A coordinated group of shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai began, ultimately killing a total of 173 people and wounding more than 300 others.
- 2011 – U.S.-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani security forces at two Pakistani military checkposts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in a friendly fire incident.
November 26: Feast day of Sylvester Gozzolini and John Berchmans (Roman Catholic Church); Constitution Day in India (1949); Thanksgiving in the United States (2015)
- 1161 – A Song dynasty fleet defeated Jin dynasty ships in a naval engagement on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
- 1805 – The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the longest and highest aqueduct in Great Britain, opened.
- 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
- 1942 – The film Casablanca (poster pictured), starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City to coincide with the Allied invasion of North Africa and the capture of Casablanca.
- 2011 – NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory mission from Cape Canaveral, with the Curiosity rover aboard.