What are the important events that happened on November 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 26: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 26 is the 331st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 35 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 13, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,732,579,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontahenagon’ day.
Sagittarius is the zodiac 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 64 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,358 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 26 Historical Events
- 783 –The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
- 1784 –The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1986 –Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
- 1998 –Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland’s parliament.
- 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
Who were born on November 26?
- 1898 –Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1908 –Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1922 –Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 1931 –Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Dutch Cardinal Archbishop of Utrecht
- 1948 –Claes Elfsberg, Swedish television presenter
- 1966 –Fahed Dermech, Tunisian footballer
- 1969 –Shawn Kemp, American basketball player
- 1971 –Ronald “Winky” Wright, American boxer
- 1975 –DJ Khaled, Palestinian-American hip-hop/rap artist, DJ and producer
- 1981 –Natalie Gauci, Australian singer
Who died on November 26?
- 1252 –Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (b. 1188)
- 1719 –John Hudson, British classical scholar (b. 1662)
- 1885 –Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (b. 1813)
- 1938 –Flora Call Disney, mother of Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney (b. 1868)
- 1971 –Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher (b. 1884)
- 1985 –Vivien Thomas, American surgeon (b. 1910)
- 2001 –Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (b. 1943)
- 2003 –Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)
- 2006 –Mário Cesariny, Portuguese painter and writer (b. 1923)
- 2008 –De'Angelo Wilson, American actor (b. 1979)
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