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 330^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 13, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 490,032 hours 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 ‘trihectatriacontagon’ 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 83 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 4,723 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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.
• 1825 –
  At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
• 1922 –
  Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
• 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.
• 1944 –
  World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth’s shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.
• 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.
• 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 –
  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?

• 1857 –
  Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
• 1909 –
  Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1912 –
  Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
• 1943 –
  Bruce Paltrow, American producer and director (d. 2002)
• 1947 –
  Roger Wehrli, American football player
• 1961 –
  Marcy Walker, American actress
• 1965 –
  Scott Adsit, American actor
• 1971 –
  Ryan Robbins, Canadian actor
• 1975 –
  DJ Khaled, Palestinian-American hip-hop/rap artist, DJ and producer
• 1981 –
  Natalie Gauci, Australian singer

Who died on November 26?

• 1717 –
  Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
• 1855 –
  Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (b. 1798)
• 1892 –
  Charles Lavigerie, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1825)
• 1934 –
  Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b. 1866)
• 1943 –
  Edward O'Hare, American ace pilot (b. 1914)
• 1971 –
  Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher (b. 1884)
• 1974 –
  Cyril Connolly, English intellectual (b. 1903)
• 1985 –
  Vivien Thomas, American surgeon (b. 1910)
• 1996 –
  Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b. 1914)
• 2003 –
  Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)