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26 Nov 1527
Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I
26 Nov 1580
French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty
26 Nov 1784
Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established
26 Nov 1793
Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
26 Nov 1805
Official opening of Thomas Telfords Pontcysyllte Aqueduct carrying the Llangollen canal 126 feet above the River Dee
26 Nov 1825
1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College NY))
26 Nov 1832
1st streetcar railway in America starts operating in New York City with 12 cent fare
26 Nov 1847
Alfred de Mussets Un Caprice premieres in Paris
26 Nov 1861
West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virginia
26 Nov 1864
Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia
26 Nov 1865
Battle of Papudo The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso Chile
26 Nov 1867
Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
26 Nov 1868
1st baseball game played in enclosed field in San Francisco at 25th & Folsom
26 Nov 1894
King Lafia Absalamu of Nikki signs accord with France
26 Nov 1896
1st large indoor football game University of Chicago beats University of Michigan 7-6
26 Nov 1896
Amos Alonzo Stagg of University of Chicago creates American football huddle
26 Nov 1898
SS Portland The Titanic of New England leaves for Cape Cod shipwrecked off Cape Ann all 192 on board killed
26 Nov 1901
Italy and Britain sign an agreement fixing the frontier between their colonies of Eritrea and Sudan in East Africa
26 Nov 1905
1st Australasian Championships Rodney Heath beats Albert Curtis (4-6 6-3 6-4 6-4)
26 Nov 1909
Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
26 Nov 1910
2nd CFL Grey Cup University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers 16-7
26 Nov 1913
Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
26 Nov 1913
Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City
26 Nov 1914
Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour England 788 die
26 Nov 1917
NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens Montreal Maroons Toronto Arenas Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs National Hockey Association disbands
26 Nov 1917
The new government of Russia offers an armistice to Germany and Austria-Hungary
26 Nov 1918
The Podgorica Assembly votes for union of the people declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia
26 Nov 1927
15th CFL Grey Cup Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers 9-6
26 Nov 1928
Philip Barrys play Holiday premieres in New York City
26 Nov 1934
German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to Nazis
26 Nov 1934
Turkish regiment decrees importing family names
26 Nov 1939
4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
26 Nov 1940
Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
26 Nov 1941
General Alan Cunningham relieved of command of British 8th Army in North Africa
26 Nov 1941
British troops conquer Belhamed Sidi Rezegh & El Duda
26 Nov 1941
Lebanon independence first proclaimed by France
26 Nov 1942
Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
26 Nov 1945
During snow storm school bus crashes kills 15 (Washington)
26 Nov 1949
37th CFL Grey Cup Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders 28-15
26 Nov 1949
The Constituent Assembly of India formally adopts a new constitution
26 Nov 1950
China enters Korean conflict sends troops across Yalu River
26 Nov 1952
1st 3D feature film Bwana Devil directed by Arch Oboler premieres in Los Angeles advertised as The Miracle of the Age A LION in your lap A LOVER in your arms
26 Nov 1952
1st modern 3-D movie Bwana Devil premieres in Hollywood
26 Nov 1953
KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
26 Nov 1953
WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
26 Nov 1953
Yamada Koun leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen found 1st awakening
26 Nov 1954
Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
26 Nov 1955
Boy Friend closes at Royale Theater NYC after 483 performances
26 Nov 1955
43rd CFL Grey Cup Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes 34-19
26 Nov 1956
USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy & loses his medal it sinks
26 Nov 1956
Egil Danielsen of Norway sets a new world record throw of 85.71m to win the mens javelin gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics
26 Nov 1956
Australian sprinter Betty Cuthbert wins the coveted 100m gold medal in 11.5 at the Melbourne Olympics takes sprint double winning 200m final four days later
26 Nov 1956
American weightlifter Charles Vinci wins bantamweight gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics with world-record 3-lift (snatch clean & jerk overhead press) total of 342.5 kilograms
26 Nov 1957
WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
26 Nov 1960
48th CFL Grey Cup Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos 16-6
26 Nov 1960
Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
26 Nov 1961
For 2nd time in his career St Louis Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
26 Nov 1961
Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball
26 Nov 1962
Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
26 Nov 1962
Fab Four have their first recording session under name The Beatles
26 Nov 1963
29th Heisman Trophy Award Roger Staubach Navy (QB)
26 Nov 1965
Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year
26 Nov 1966
Walking Happy opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 performances
26 Nov 1966
1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary France
26 Nov 1966
54th CFL Grey Cup Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa 29-14
26 Nov 1967
Browns Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
26 Nov 1969
35th Heisman Trophy Award Steve Owens Oklahoma (RB)
26 Nov 1969
Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
26 Nov 1970
In Basse-Terre Guadeloupe 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute the heaviest rainfall ever on record
26 Nov 1972
Pete Gogolak scores NY Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown
26 Nov 1972
Bomb explosion at the Film Centre Cinema in OConnell Bridge House in Dublin
26 Nov 1973
Nixons personal secretary Rose Mary Woods tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18 minute gap in a key Watergate tape
26 Nov 1974
Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses in Nepal
26 Nov 1974
Catfish Hunter & Charlie Finley meet in arbitration
26 Nov 1974
Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India
26 Nov 1975
US Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
26 Nov 1975
France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
26 Nov 1976
German DR deprives singerpoet Wolf Biermann citizenship
26 Nov 1977
Vrillon claiming to be the representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command takes over Britains Southern Television for six minutes at 512 PM.
26 Nov 1978
10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester NY
26 Nov 1978
1st lesbian theme TV movie - A Question of Love
26 Nov 1978
66th CFL Grey Cup Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes 20-13
26 Nov 1978
Christina Crawford autobiography Mommie Dearest reaches best-seller status
26 Nov 1979
Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
26 Nov 1979
Twins John Castino & Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year
26 Nov 1980
Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
26 Nov 1983
Worlds greatest robbery 26 million pounds (sterling) worth of gold diamonds and cash stolen from Brinks-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport England
26 Nov 1983
Heathrow Airport robbed of 6800 gold bars worth 38.7 million
26 Nov 1984
John W Mercom Jr announces New Orleans Saints are up for sale for 75 million
26 Nov 1984
Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain
26 Nov 1985
23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
26 Nov 1988
Alexander Volkov Sergei Krikalev & Jean-Loup Chretien launch
26 Nov 2017
British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes 2nd in season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit to claim his 4th World F1 Drivers Championship wins title by 46 points from Sebastian Vettel
26 Nov 1988
Pioneer 6s closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
26 Nov 1989
77th CFL Grey Cup Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats 43-40
26 Nov 1989
Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes President of Uruguay
26 Nov 1989
Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
26 Nov 1990
Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend
26 Nov 1990
US proposes addition to UN resolution that would require Iraqs withdrawal from Kuwait by January 1
26 Nov 1991
Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
26 Nov 1992
Sir Alec Jeffreys British geneticist who developed widely-used techniques for DNA fingerprinting becomes honorary freeman of the city of Leicester
26 Nov 1995
33rd Tennis Fed Cup Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2)
26 Nov 1995
New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI
26 Nov 1995
Federation Cup Womens Tennis Valencia Spain Conchita Martnezbeats American Mary Joe Fernndez 6-3 6-4 to give Spain an unassailable 3-0 lead (ends 3-2) and their 4th title
26 Nov 1996
Baseball owners approve interleague play 26-4
26 Nov 1996
Colbert Floyd & Irwin win Wendys Senior 3 Tour Golf Challenge
26 Nov 1996
Couples Davies Sheehan & Sorenstam win Wendys Ladys 3 Tour Golf
26 Nov 1996
Couples Love & Stewart win Wendys Mens 3 Tour Golf Challenge
26 Nov 1997
Wash Capitals final game at USAir Arena retire Rod Langways 5
26 Nov 2000
88th CFL Grey Cup BC Lions defeats Montreal Alouettes 28-26
26 Nov 2003
India accepts Pakistans offer of a ceasefire in Kashmir
26 Nov 2003
Supersonic airplane the Concorde makes its last ever flight returning to Bristol England.
26 Nov 2004
Ruzhou School massacre a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou China.
26 Nov 2006
The last international rugby match before demolition of Dublins famous Lansdowne Road Stadium is Irelands 61-17 win over the Pacific Islanders
26 Nov 2008
Terrorist attacks in Mumbai India Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai India.
26 Nov 2011
NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpoint in a friendly fire incident killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others
26 Nov 2012
10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground
26 Nov 2012
The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be 32 Billion
26 Nov 2015
UK nonprofit Raspberry Pi releases its 5 Zero computer sells out in a day
26 Nov 2017
Factory explosion in Chinese port city Ningbo kills at least 2 injuries 30 flattens buildings
26 Nov 2017
Presidential elections held in Honduras with allegations of electoral fraud and resulting violent protests
26 Nov 1905
1st Australasian Championships Mens Tennis Melbourne Rodney Heath beats Albert Curtis 4-6 6-3 6-4 6-4
26 Nov 1910
CFL Grey Cup AAA Grounds Hamilton University of Toronto Blues retain title beat Hamilton Tigers 16-7
26 Nov 1927
CFL Grey Cup Varsity Stadium Toronto Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Hamilton Tigers 9-6 for their first of 2 Championships
26 Nov 1949
CFL Grey Cup Varsity Stadium Toronto Montreal Alouettes beat Calgary Stampeders 28-15 for their first Championship
26 Nov 1955
CFL Grey Cup Empire Stadium Vancouver Edmonton Eskimos retain Championship with 34-19 win over Montreal Alouettes
26 Nov 1960
CFL Grey Cup Empire Stadium Vancouver Ottawa Rough Riders defeat Edmonton Eskimos 16-6 for their 5th Championship
26 Nov 1966
CFL Grey Cup Empire Stadium Vancouver Saskatchewan Roughriders win their first Championship defeat Ottawa 29-14
26 Nov 1975
Boston Red Sox center fielder Fred Lynn becomes the first rookie ever to be named American League MVP
26 Nov 1978
CFL Grey Cup CNE Stadium Toronto Edmonton Eskimos first of 5 straight titles beat Montreal Alouettes 20-13
26 Nov 1989
CFL Grey Cup SkyDome Toronto Saskatchewan Roughriders defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats 43-40 on Dave Ridgways field goal winner was known as The Kick
26 Nov 1995
Federation Cup Womens Tennis Valencia Spain Conchita Martnez beats American Mary Joe Fernndez 6-3 6-4 to give Spain an unassailable 3-0 lead (ends 3-2) and their 4th title
26 Nov 2000
CFL Grey Cup McMahon Stadium Calgary BC Lions defeat Montreal Alouettes 28-26 Lions first team ever to finish with regular season record below .500 and win Grey Cup
26 Nov 2017
CFL Grey Cup TD Place Stadium Ottawa Toronto Argonauts win 17th Championship with 27-24 victory over Calgary Stampede
26 Nov 2018
NASAs InSight mission lands on Mars after a 7 month voyage
26 Nov 2018
Ukraine declares martial law in areas bordering Russia after Russia seizes three of its naval vessels
26 Nov 2018
Chinese scientist He Jiankui claims to have made the first genetically edited baby
26 Nov 2018
Australian surfer Stephanie Gilmore is handed her record equalling 7th world title as American contender Lakey Peterson is a shock 2nd round elimination at the season-ending Maui Pro in Hawaii
26 Nov 2018
General Motors announces it will close five factories in North America cutting 14000 jobs
26 Nov 2018
First multidrug randomized control trial to treat Ebola started in Democratic Republic of Congo announced by the WHO
26 Nov 2018
DC superhero film Aquaman directed by James Wan starring Jason Momoa and Amber Heard premieres in London
26 Nov 2018
Third of a species begin dying (23000) over a two day period the spectacled flying foxes unable to survive heatwave of 42 degrees in northern Queensland Australia
26 Nov 1922
1st successful Technicolor movie (The Toll of the Sea) premieres at the Rialto Theatre in NYC
26 Nov 2018
Third of a species begin dying (23000) over a two day period the spectacled flying foxes unable to survive heatwave of 42 degrees in northern Queensland Australia
26 Nov 2019
6.4 magnitude earthquake centered on Durres strikes Albania with at least 51 killed and hundreds injured
26 Nov 1921
Danish composer Rued Langgaards Music of the Spheres (Sfrernes Musik) premieres at Konzerthaus in Karlsruhe Germany it is not performed in Denmark until 1969
26 Nov 1962
The Beatles re-record Please Please Me at a faster tempo
26 Nov 2020
Turkey gives life sentences to 337 military officers and others involved in 2016 coup
26 Nov 1805
Official opening of Thomas Telfords Pontcysyllte Aqueduct carrying the Llangollen canal 126 feet above the River Dee. Longest aqueduct in the UK and highest canal aqueduct in the world.
26 Nov 1956
TV game show The Price Is Right hosted by Bill Cullen debuts on NBC
26 Nov 1956
USSR coxless pairs scull rower Viktor Ivanov wins Olympic silver medal in his excitement he drops his medal it sinks in Lake Wendouree (Victoria Australia) and is later recovered by a local teenager
26 Nov 1966
Walking Happy opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC runs for 161 performances
26 Nov 1968
Rock band Cream gives final concert (Royal Albert Hall London England) - but re-unites briefly for a short tour in 2005
26 Nov 1972
Bomb explosion at the Film Centre Cinema in OConnell Bridge House in Dublin Ireland
26 Nov 1972
NFL NY Giant placekicker Pte Gogolk scores team record 8 PAT (points after touchdown) in 62-10 win over Philadelphia Eagles at Yankee Stadium NYC
26 Nov 1976
East Germany strips singer-songwriter and poet Wolf Biermann his citizenship while he tours West Germany
26 Nov 1985
23rd NASA Space Shuttle Mission (61-B) Atlantis 2 launches
26 Nov 1986
Trial begins in Israel for John Demjanjuk accused of being Nazi prison guard Ivan the Terrible at Treblinka concentration camp
26 Nov 2021
WHO labels COVID-19 variant Omicron a variant of concern with its dozens of new mutations after it emerges in Botswana and South Africa [1]
26 Nov 1933
Camille Chautemps becomes French premier for the second time
26 Nov 1966
Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn musical Walking Happy based on the 1916 novel Hobsons Choice opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC runs for 161 performances
26 Nov 1968
Rock band Cream gives final concert at Royal Albert Hall London England - but re-unites briefly for a short tour in 2005
26 Nov 1970
In Basse-Terre Guadeloupe 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain falls in a single minute the heaviest recorded rainfall in history
26 Nov 1976
East Germany strips singer-songwriter and poet Wolf Biermann of his citizenship while he tours West Germany
26 Nov 1978
1st lesbian themed TV movie - A Question of Love
26 Nov 2022
2500 people pose naked for photographer Spencer Tunick on Australias Bondi Beach to raise awareness of skin cancer [1]
26 Nov 2022
Large mudslide after intense rain tears across Italian island of Ischia killing at least eight people on an island where 50% of the houses were illegally built [1]
26 Nov 1688
Duke of Savoy signs on to the League of Augsburg opposing France
26 Nov 1934
Turkish parliament bestows President Mustafa Kemal with the surname Atatrk meaning Father of the Turks as part of the countrys modernization effort
26 Nov 1962
The Beatles record Ask Me Why at EMI Studio London
26 Nov 1989
Luis Alberto Lacalle wins Uruguayan presidential election
26 Nov 1992
British geneticist Alec Jeffreys who developed widely-used techniques for DNA fingerprinting becomes honorary freeman of the city of Leicester
26 Nov 2022
Rare public protests held in various Chinese cities over the governments restrictive COVID-19 policies after 10 people die in an apartment fire in Urumqi Xinjiang [1]
26 Nov 2023
Booker literary Prize won by Irish writer Paul Lynch for his novel Prophet Song [1]
26 Nov 2023
Sierra Leone declares nationwide curfew after attempted coup when gunmen tried to break into countrys largest military barracks in Freetown [1]
26 Nov 2023
Two-day extension to Gaza ceasefire announced by mediating country Qatar with a fourth set of hostages exchanged by both sides [1]
26 Nov 1580
French Huguenots and Roman Catholics sign a peace treaty
26 Nov 1716
A lion is tamed and exhibited for the first time in the US by Captain Arthur Savage at his house on Brattle Street in Boston Massachusetts
26 Nov 1741
French Bavarian and Saxon armies occupy Prague
26 Nov 1805
Official opening of Thomas Telfords Pontcysyllte Aqueduct the longest aqueduct in the UK and the highest canal aqueduct in the world carrying the Llangollen Canal 126 feet above the River Dee
26 Nov 1825
Kappa Alpha fraternity is established at Union College in Schenectady New York thought to be the oldest continuously maintained collegiate society in US
26 Nov 1832
First streetcar railway in America starts operating in New York City with a 12-cent fare
26 Nov 1864
Kilpatricks 3rd Cavalry Division partially burns a wooden railroad bridge north of Waynesboro Georgia before being driven off by Joseph Wheelers troops
26 Nov 1867
Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit a key step in the history of long-distance transportation of perishable goods
26 Nov 1909
Sigma Alpha Mu is founded at the City College of New York by eight young Jewish men
26 Nov 1922
First successful Technicolor movie The Toll of the Sea premieres at the Rialto Theatre in New York City
26 Nov 1939
Four Soviet soldiers are killed on the Finnish-Russian border
26 Nov 1952
The first 3D feature film Bwana Devil directed by Arch Oboler premieres in Los Angeles advertised as The Miracle of the Age A LION in your lap A LOVER in your arms
26 Nov 1956
Egil Danielsen of Norway sets a new world record throw of 85.71 m to win the mens javelin gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics
26 Nov 1956
USSR coxless pairs scull rower Viktor Ivanov wins an Olympic silver medal in his excitement he drops his medal which sinks in Lake Wendouree (Victoria Australia) and is later recovered by a local teenager
26 Nov 1965
Dodgers second baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year
26 Nov 1970
In Basse-Terre Guadeloupe 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain falls in a single minute the heaviest recorded rainfall in history [1]
26 Nov 1983
26 million worth of gold diamonds and cash is stolen from the Brinks-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport London in one of the worlds greatest robberies
26 Nov 1985
Random House buys former US President Richard Nixons memoirs for 3000000
26 Nov 1990
Buffalo Bills become the sixth first-place NFL team to lose on the same weekend
26 Nov 1995
New Zealand scores 348 for 8 in 49 overs in an ODI against India in Nagpur
26 Nov 2004
Ruzhou School massacre Yan Yanming stabs and kills eight boys and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou China
26 Nov 2015
UK nonprofit Raspberry Pi releases its 5 Zero computer with a 1 GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM it sells out in a day
26 Nov 2018
Chinese scientist He Jiankui claims to have produced the first genetically edited baby