133981 | November 25 | Death | 2013 – Egon Lánský, Czech journalist and politician (b. 1934) |
133982 | November 25 | Death | 2013 – Al Plastino, American author and illustrator (b. 1921) |
133983 | November 25 | Death | 2014 – Sitara Devi, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1920) |
133984 | November 25 | Death | 2014 – Petr Hapka, Czech composer and conductor (b. 1944) |
133985 | November 25 | Death | 2014 – Denham Harman, American biogerontologist and academic (b. 1916) |
133986 | November 25 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:Catherine LabouréCatherine of AlexandriaElizabeth of ReuteIsaac Watts (Lutheran and Anglican Church)James Otis Sargent Huntington (Episcopal Church)November 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
133987 | November 25 | Holiday and observance | Evacuation Day (19th century New York City) |
133988 | November 25 | Holiday and observance | Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Suriname from the Netherlands in 1975. |
133989 | November 25 | Holiday and observance | International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (International) |
133990 | November 25 | Holiday and observance | National Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
133991 | November 25 | Holiday and observance | Teachers' Day or Hari Guru (Indonesia) |
133992 | November 25 | Holiday and observance | Vajiravudh Day (Thailand) |
133993 | November 26 | Event | 783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus. |
133994 | November 26 | Event | 1161 – Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars. |
133995 | November 26 | Event | 1476 – Vlad the Impaler (Dracula) defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time. |
133996 | November 26 | Event | 1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui. |
133997 | November 26 | Event | 1784 – The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established. |
133998 | November 26 | Event | 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress. |
133999 | November 26 | Event | 1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. |
134000 | November 26 | Event | 1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York, a group of college students form the Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity. |
134001 | November 26 | Event | 1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded. |
134002 | November 26 | Event | 1863 – United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. (Since 1941, it has been on the fourth Thursday.) |
134003 | November 26 | Event | 1865 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile. |
134004 | November 26 | Event | 1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams. |
134005 | November 26 | Event | 1918 – The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia. |
134006 | November 26 | Event | 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. |
134007 | November 26 | Event | 1922 – The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.) |
134008 | November 26 | Event | 1939 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates an incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later. |
134009 | November 26 | Event | 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. |
134010 | November 26 | Event | 1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria. |