A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on November 26 throughout history.
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43 BC Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leaders formed by Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony
The history of Hawaii began with the discovery and settlement of the Hawaiian Islands by Polynesian people between 940 and 1200 AD.
The National Thanksgiving Proclamation was the first presidential proclamation of Thanksgiving in the United States.
First US cabinet meeting is held at George Washington's home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph attend.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.
The tomb of Tutankhamun (reigned c. 1332–1323 BC), a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, is located in the Valley of the Kings.
First successful Technicolor movie, "The Toll of the Sea," premieres at the Rialto Theatre in New York City
"Casablanca," directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres at Hollywood Theater, NYC (Academy Award for Best Picture 1943)
Charlie "Bird" Parker leads a recording session with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis for the Savoy label, marketed as the "greatest jazz session ever"
NHL forms with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and a new Toronto franchise (later the Arenas) as the National Hockey Association disbands
Russian emperor Nicholas II (26) weds Alexandra Feodorovna (22) at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, Russia
English comic actor and film maker Charlie Chaplin (35) weds second wife American "The Kid" actress Lita Grey (16) in Mexico; divorce in 1927
Future Sound of Music matriarch and folk star Maria Augusta Kutschera (22) marries naval captain Georg von Trapp (47) in Salzburg, Austria
Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
Asturian queen Adosinda was put in the monastery of San Juan de Pravia, where she lived out the rest of her life, to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
French Huguenots and Roman Catholics sign a peace treaty
The Grand Alliance was signed on 20 December 1689 by William III, King of England and Scotland, and Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.
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
French, Bavarian, and Saxon armies occupy Prague
France bans Jesuit enorde
The Apostolic Prefecture of the United States (Latin: Praefectura Apostolica Civitatum Foederatarum Americae Septentrionalis) was the earliest Roman Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction to be...
Official opening of Thomas Telford's 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
Kappa Alpha fraternity is established at Union College in Schenectady, New York; thought to be the oldest continuously maintained collegiate society in US
First streetcar railway in America starts operating in New York City with a 12-cent fare
HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for New Zealand
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States.
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (The...
West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virginia
The Battle of Mine Run, also known as Payne's Farm, or New Hope Church, or the Mine Run campaign (November 27 – December 2, 1863), was conducted in Orange County, Virginia, in the American Civil...
Kilpatrick's 3rd Cavalry Division partially burns a wooden railroad bridge north of Waynesboro, Georgia, before being driven off by Joseph Wheeler's troops
Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit, a key step in the history of long-distance transportation of perishable goods
King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France
The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association (HSPA) was an unincorporated, voluntary organization of sugarcane plantation owners in the Hawaiian Islands.
The 1896 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1896 Western Conference football season.
-27) Snow and ice storm over US kills 455
Italy and Britain sign an agreement fixing the frontier between their colonies of Eritrea and Sudan in East Africa
Sigma Alpha Mu (ΣΑΜ), commonly known as Sammy, is a college fraternity founded at the City College of New York in 1909.
Phi Sigma Sigma (ΦΣΣ), colloquially known as Phi Sig, was the first collegiate nonsectarian sorority to allow membership of women of all faiths and backgrounds. The sorority was founded on November...
Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die
The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia
Danish composer Rued Langgaard's "Music of the Spheres" (Sfærernes Musik) premieres at Konzerthaus in Karlsruhe, Germany; it is not performed in Denmark until 1969
The Mongolian People's Republic (MPR) was a communist state in Central and East Asia that existed from 1924 to 1992 that self-designated first as a people's democratic state and later as a socialist...
Netherlands & Germany sign trade agreement
Philip Jerome Quinn Barry (June 18, 1896 – December 3, 1949) was an American dramatist best known for his plays Holiday (1928) and The Philadelphia Story (1939), which were both made into films...
Camille Chautemps becomes French premier for the second time
Cor Kint swims world record 200 m backstroke (2:38.8)
Leidse students strike
First Allied Marines move into Antwerp Harbor
A constituent assembly (also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution.
The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea;...
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!"
KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
The Cyprus Emergency was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959. The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriot guerrilla organisation fighting...
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
WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
The St. Paul Saints are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League and the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins.
For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)
Peter Edward Rose Sr. (April 14, 1941 – September 30, 2024), nicknamed "Charlie Hustle", was an American professional baseball player and manager.
Dodgers second baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year
Tidal power or tidal energy is harnessed by converting energy from tides into useful forms of power, mainly electricity using various methods. Although not yet widely used, tidal energy has the...
Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB)
In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain falls in a single minute, the heaviest recorded rainfall in history [1]
Between 26 November 1972 and 20 January 1973, there were four paramilitary bombings in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. Three civilians were killed and 185 people were injured.
Nixon's personal secretary Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape
Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses in Nepal
Robert Gordon Orr is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time.
'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.
10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
Clyde Edward King (May 23, 1924 – November 2, 2010) was an American pitcher, coach, manager, general manager and front office executive in Major League Baseball. King's career in baseball spanned 67...
Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
£26 million worth of gold, diamonds, and cash is stolen from the Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, London, in one of the world's greatest robberies
After 518 goals and 14 years with the Montreal Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires abruptly
23rd NASA Space Shuttle Mission (61-B): Atlantis 2 launches
Trial begins in Israel for John Demjanjuk, accused of being Nazi prison guard "Ivan the Terrible" at Treblinka concentration camp
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev is a Russian mechanical engineer and former cosmonaut.
Comores coup under Bob Benard
Buffalo Bills become the sixth first-place NFL team to lose on the same weekend
Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
British geneticist Alec Jeffreys who developed widely-used techniques for DNA fingerprinting, becomes honorary freeman of the city of Leicester
Interleague play in Major League Baseball refers to regular-season baseball games played between an American League (AL) team and a National League (NL) team.
Wash Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5
Stephen Gregory Yzerman ( EYE-zər-mən; born May 9, 1965) is a Canadian former professional hockey player who is currently the executive vice president and general manager of the Detroit Red Wings,...
Kashmir ( KASH-meer or kash-MEER) is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.
Male Poʻouli bird dies of avian malaria at the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it can breed, rendering the species in all probability extinct
The last international rugby match before demolition of Dublin's famous Lansdowne Road Stadium is Ireland's 61-17 win over the Pacific Islanders
A series of 12 coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks, sometimes called 26/11, were carried out in Mumbai, India, from 26 to 29 November 2008 by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based...
NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpoint in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others
10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground
Due to a street tirade captured on video, Alec Baldwin's show "Up Late with Alec Baldwin" is cancelled after only five episodes
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
British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes second in season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit to claim his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship; wins title by 46 points from Sebastian Vettel
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
On 26 November 2019 at 03:54 CET (UTC+1), northwestern Albania was struck by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake with an epicentre 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west-southwest of Mamurras.
Turkey gives life sentences to 337 military officers and others involved in 2016 coup
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]
2,500 people pose naked for photographer Spencer Tunick on Australia's Bondi Beach to raise awareness of skin cancer [1]
Paul Lynch is an Irish novelist known for his poetic, lyrical style and exploration of complex themes.
Fire at seven apartment towers of the Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong kills at least 128, with hundreds unaccounted for; combustible construction supplies fueled the blaze
Albert B. Fall politician, known for american politician, was born on 1861-11-26. Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 – November 30, 1944) was a United States senator from New Mexico and secretary…
Gregorio Álvarez is born
Rita Ora, Albanian singer-songwriter, known for british singer-songwriter, was born on 1991-11-26. Rita Sahatçiu Ora is a British singer, songwriter, television personality, and actress.
DJ Khaled, American musician, known for american dj and record producer, was born on 1976-11-26. Khaled Mohammed Khaled, is an American DJ and record producer.
Dale Jarrett, American athlete, known for american racing driver, was born on 1957-11-26. Dale Arnold Jarrett is an American former race car driver and current racing commentator for NBC.
Eugene Ionesco, French romanian-french playwright, known for romanian-french playwright, was born on 1909-11-26.
43 BC Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leaders formed by Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony
Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
Asturian queen Adosinda was put in the monastery of San Juan de Pravia, where she lived out the rest of her life, to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
French Huguenots and Roman Catholics sign a peace treaty
The Grand Alliance was signed on 20 December 1689 by William III, King of England and Scotland, and Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.
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
French, Bavarian, and Saxon armies occupy Prague
France bans Jesuit enorde
The history of Hawaii began with the discovery and settlement of the Hawaiian Islands by Polynesian people between 940 and 1200 AD.
The Apostolic Prefecture of the United States (Latin: Praefectura Apostolica Civitatum Foederatarum Americae Septentrionalis) was the earliest Roman Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction to be...
The National Thanksgiving Proclamation was the first presidential proclamation of Thanksgiving in the United States.
First US cabinet meeting is held at George Washington's home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph attend.
Official opening of Thomas Telford's 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
Kappa Alpha fraternity is established at Union College in Schenectady, New York; thought to be the oldest continuously maintained collegiate society in US
First streetcar railway in America starts operating in New York City with a 12-cent fare
HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for New Zealand
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States.
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (The...
West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virginia
Albert B. Fall politician, known for american politician, was born on 1861-11-26. Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 – November 30, 1944) was a United States senator from New Mexico and secretary…
The Battle of Mine Run, also known as Payne's Farm, or New Hope Church, or the Mine Run campaign (November 27 – December 2, 1863), was conducted in Orange County, Virginia, in the American Civil...
Kilpatrick's 3rd Cavalry Division partially burns a wooden railroad bridge north of Waynesboro, Georgia, before being driven off by Joseph Wheeler's troops
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.
Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit, a key step in the history of long-distance transportation of perishable goods
Russian emperor Nicholas II (26) weds Alexandra Feodorovna (22) at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, Russia
King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France
The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association (HSPA) was an unincorporated, voluntary organization of sugarcane plantation owners in the Hawaiian Islands.
The 1896 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1896 Western Conference football season.
-27) Snow and ice storm over US kills 455
Italy and Britain sign an agreement fixing the frontier between their colonies of Eritrea and Sudan in East Africa
Sigma Alpha Mu (ΣΑΜ), commonly known as Sammy, is a college fraternity founded at the City College of New York in 1909.
Eugene Ionesco, French romanian-french playwright, known for romanian-french playwright, was born on 1909-11-26.
Phi Sigma Sigma (ΦΣΣ), colloquially known as Phi Sig, was the first collegiate nonsectarian sorority to allow membership of women of all faiths and backgrounds. The sorority was founded on November...
Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die
NHL forms with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and a new Toronto franchise (later the Arenas) as the National Hockey Association disbands
The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia
Danish composer Rued Langgaard's "Music of the Spheres" (Sfærernes Musik) premieres at Konzerthaus in Karlsruhe, Germany; it is not performed in Denmark until 1969
The tomb of Tutankhamun (reigned c. 1332–1323 BC), a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, is located in the Valley of the Kings.
First successful Technicolor movie, "The Toll of the Sea," premieres at the Rialto Theatre in New York City
English comic actor and film maker Charlie Chaplin (35) weds second wife American "The Kid" actress Lita Grey (16) in Mexico; divorce in 1927
The Mongolian People's Republic (MPR) was a communist state in Central and East Asia that existed from 1924 to 1992 that self-designated first as a people's democratic state and later as a socialist...
Netherlands & Germany sign trade agreement
Gregorio Álvarez is born
Future Sound of Music matriarch and folk star Maria Augusta Kutschera (22) marries naval captain Georg von Trapp (47) in Salzburg, Austria
Philip Jerome Quinn Barry (June 18, 1896 – December 3, 1949) was an American dramatist best known for his plays Holiday (1928) and The Philadelphia Story (1939), which were both made into films...
Camille Chautemps becomes French premier for the second time
Cor Kint swims world record 200 m backstroke (2:38.8)
Leidse students strike
"Casablanca," directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres at Hollywood Theater, NYC (Academy Award for Best Picture 1943)
First Allied Marines move into Antwerp Harbor
Charlie "Bird" Parker leads a recording session with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis for the Savoy label, marketed as the "greatest jazz session ever"
A constituent assembly (also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution.
The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea;...
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!"
KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
The Cyprus Emergency was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959. The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriot guerrilla organisation fighting...
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
WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Dale Jarrett, American athlete, known for american racing driver, was born on 1957-11-26. Dale Arnold Jarrett is an American former race car driver and current racing commentator for NBC.
The St. Paul Saints are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League and the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins.
For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)
Peter Edward Rose Sr. (April 14, 1941 – September 30, 2024), nicknamed "Charlie Hustle", was an American professional baseball player and manager.
Dodgers second baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year
Tidal power or tidal energy is harnessed by converting energy from tides into useful forms of power, mainly electricity using various methods. Although not yet widely used, tidal energy has the...
Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB)
In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain falls in a single minute, the heaviest recorded rainfall in history [1]
Between 26 November 1972 and 20 January 1973, there were four paramilitary bombings in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. Three civilians were killed and 185 people were injured.
Nixon's personal secretary Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape
Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses in Nepal
Robert Gordon Orr is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time.
DJ Khaled, American musician, known for american dj and record producer, was born on 1976-11-26. Khaled Mohammed Khaled, is an American DJ and record producer.
'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.
10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
Clyde Edward King (May 23, 1924 – November 2, 2010) was an American pitcher, coach, manager, general manager and front office executive in Major League Baseball. King's career in baseball spanned 67...
Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
£26 million worth of gold, diamonds, and cash is stolen from the Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, London, in one of the world's greatest robberies
After 518 goals and 14 years with the Montreal Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires abruptly
23rd NASA Space Shuttle Mission (61-B): Atlantis 2 launches
Trial begins in Israel for John Demjanjuk, accused of being Nazi prison guard "Ivan the Terrible" at Treblinka concentration camp
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev is a Russian mechanical engineer and former cosmonaut.
Comores coup under Bob Benard
Buffalo Bills become the sixth first-place NFL team to lose on the same weekend
Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
Rita Ora, Albanian singer-songwriter, known for british singer-songwriter, was born on 1991-11-26. Rita Sahatçiu Ora is a British singer, songwriter, television personality, and actress.
British geneticist Alec Jeffreys who developed widely-used techniques for DNA fingerprinting, becomes honorary freeman of the city of Leicester
Interleague play in Major League Baseball refers to regular-season baseball games played between an American League (AL) team and a National League (NL) team.
Wash Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5
Stephen Gregory Yzerman ( EYE-zər-mən; born May 9, 1965) is a Canadian former professional hockey player who is currently the executive vice president and general manager of the Detroit Red Wings,...
Kashmir ( KASH-meer or kash-MEER) is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.
Male Poʻouli bird dies of avian malaria at the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it can breed, rendering the species in all probability extinct
The last international rugby match before demolition of Dublin's famous Lansdowne Road Stadium is Ireland's 61-17 win over the Pacific Islanders
A series of 12 coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks, sometimes called 26/11, were carried out in Mumbai, India, from 26 to 29 November 2008 by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based...
NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpoint in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others
10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground
Due to a street tirade captured on video, Alec Baldwin's show "Up Late with Alec Baldwin" is cancelled after only five episodes
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
British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes second in season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit to claim his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship; wins title by 46 points from Sebastian Vettel
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
On 26 November 2019 at 03:54 CET (UTC+1), northwestern Albania was struck by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake with an epicentre 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west-southwest of Mamurras.
Turkey gives life sentences to 337 military officers and others involved in 2016 coup
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]
2,500 people pose naked for photographer Spencer Tunick on Australia's Bondi Beach to raise awareness of skin cancer [1]
Paul Lynch is an Irish novelist known for his poetic, lyrical style and exploration of complex themes.
Fire at seven apartment towers of the Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong kills at least 128, with hundreds unaccounted for; combustible construction supplies fueled the blaze