134011 | November 26 | Event | 1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in London, United Kingdom, killing 168 people. |
134012 | November 26 | Event | 1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium. |
134013 | November 26 | Event | 1949 – The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. |
134014 | November 26 | Event | 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 |
134015 | November 26 | Event | 1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1, on board. |
134016 | November 26 | Event | 1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor. |
134017 | November 26 | Event | 1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded. |
134018 | November 26 | Event | 1977 – An unidentified hijacker named Vrillon, claiming to be the representative of the "Ashtar Galactic Command", takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm. |
134019 | November 26 | Event | 1983 – Brink's-MAT robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-MAT vault at Heathrow Airport. |
134020 | November 26 | Event | 1986 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission. |
134021 | November 26 | Event | 1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight. |
134022 | November 26 | Event | 1991 – National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names. |
134023 | November 26 | Event | 1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland. |
134024 | November 26 | Event | 2000 – George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote. |
134025 | November 26 | Event | 2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England. |
134026 | November 26 | Event | 2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China. |
134027 | November 26 | Event | 2004 – The last Poʻouli (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. |
134028 | November 26 | Event | 2008 – Mumbai attacks by Pakistan-sponsored Lashkar-e-Taiba. |
134029 | November 26 | Event | 2011 – NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others. |
134030 | November 26 | Event | 2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover. |
134031 | November 26 | Event | 2012 – Aam Aadmi Party Indian political party formally started. |
134032 | November 26 | Birth | 1436 – Catherine of Portugal (d. 1463) |
134033 | November 26 | Birth | 1604 – Johannes Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1673) |
134034 | November 26 | Birth | 1607 – John Harvard, English-American minister and philanthropist (d. 1638) |
134035 | November 26 | Birth | 1609 – Henry Dunster, English-American clergyman and academic (d. 1659) |
134036 | November 26 | Birth | 1657 – William Derham, English minister and philosopher (d. 1735) |
134037 | November 26 | Birth | 1678 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (d. 1771) |
134038 | November 26 | Birth | 1703 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor and playwright (d. 1758) |
134039 | November 26 | Birth | 1727 – Artemas Ward, American general and politician (d. 1800) |
134040 | November 26 | Birth | 1731 – William Cowper, English poet and hymnwriter (d. 1800) |