783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
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.
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.
1776: The body of Peyton Randolph is returned to Williamsburg, Virginia, for re-interment at his alma mater, the College of William and Mary. Randolph had died on October 22, 1775, at the age of 54, while in Philadelphia representing Virginia in the second Continental Congress.
1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
1784 – The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.
1791 – Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph attend the very first U.S. cabinet meeting at George Washington’s home in Philadelphia, PA.
1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York, a group of college students form the Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.
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.)
1863: Around a small valley called Mine Run in Virginia, Union General George Meade moved against Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia after months of inaction following the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July of that year. Meade's troops found no weaknesses in Lee's lines, and the offensive was abandoned after five days.
1865 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile.
1872: The Great Diamond Hoax, one of the most notorious mining swindles of the time, was exposed with an article in the San Francisco Evening Bulletin.
1898: A powerful early winter storm batters the New England coast, killing at least 450 people in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. It was Thanksgiving Day when strong winds, in excess of 40 miles per hour, began blowing from the Atlantic Ocean across the New England coast. This was followed, in short order, by gales from the other direction. Equally strong winds roared across upstate New York from the west. Blizzard conditions disrupted the entire area. Transportation became impossible; some trains were halted by 20-foot snow drifts. Boston was perhaps worst hit by the storm. Approximately 100 ships were blown ashore from the city's harbor and another 40 were sunk. About 100 people died when a Portland-based steamer sank near Cape Cod. Bodies and debris filled the harbors and nearby beaches. The storm was thought to have killed at least 450 people, though due to the wide extent of the storm and the poor record-keeping of the time, it was impossible to determine exactly how many people died.
1916: Thomas Edward Lawrence, a junior member of the British government's Arab Bureau during World War I, published a detailed report analyzing the revolt led by the Arab leader Sherif Hussein against the Ottoman Empire in the late spring of 1916.
1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
1918 – The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to over 3000 years.
1922: In Egypt's Valley of the Kings, British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in more than 3,000 years. Tutankhamen's sealed burial chambers were miraculously intact, and inside was a collection of several thousand priceless objects, including a gold coffin containing the mummy of the teenage king.
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.)
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.
1941: Adm. Chuichi Nagumo led the Japanese First Air Fleet, an aircraft carrier strike force, toward Pearl Harbor, with the understanding that should "negotiations with the United States reach a successful conclusion, the task force would immediately put about and return to the homeland."
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.
1942 – The motion picture Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, has its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York City. The premiere is timed to coincide with the Allied invasion of North Africa.
1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning Dec. 1.
1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in London, United Kingdom, killing 168 people.
1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
1949 – The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
1950 – Korean War: In some of the fiercest fighting of the Korean War, thousands of troops from the People's Republic of China launch massive counterattacks in North Korea against United States and Republic of Korea (ROK) and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), driving the Allied forces before them and putting an end to any hopes of a quick or conclusive U.S. end to the conflict. When the counterattacks had been stemmed, U.S. and ROK forces had been driven from North Korea and the war settled into a grinding and frustrating stalemate for the next two-and-a-half years.
1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1, on board.
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.
1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
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.
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.
1986 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
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.
1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
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.
2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
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.
2008 – Mumbai attacks by Pakistan-sponsored Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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.
2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.
2012 – Aam Aadmi Party Indian political party formally started.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Sylvester, Abbot, Confessor. Double.
Commemoration of St. Peter, Pope of Alexandria, Martyr.
Contemporary Western
John Berchmans
Pope Siricius
Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodoxy)
Sylvester Gozzolini
Pope Siricius
Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodoxy)
Sylvester Gozzolini
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Isaac Watts (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
Venerable James the Solitary of Syria (457)
Venerable Chaeremon
Saint Peter of Jerusalem, Patriarch of Jerusalem (552)
Venerable Stylianos of Paphlagonia, monk (6th century)
Venerable Acacius of Mt. Latros (6th century)
Venerable Silas, Bishop of Corinth in Persia
Saint Procopius of Persia
Venerable Alypius the Stylite of Adrianopolis (608)
Venerable Nikon Metanoeite, "Preacher of Repentance" (988)
Venerable Chaeremon
Saint Peter of Jerusalem, Patriarch of Jerusalem (552)
Venerable Stylianos of Paphlagonia, monk (6th century)
Venerable Acacius of Mt. Latros (6th century)
Venerable Silas, Bishop of Corinth in Persia
Saint Procopius of Persia
Venerable Alypius the Stylite of Adrianopolis (608)
Venerable Nikon Metanoeite, "Preacher of Repentance" (988)
Saint Amator, Bishop of Autun in France (3rd century)
Saint Siricius, Pope of Rome (399)
Saint Basolus (Basle), a French Benedictine monk at Verzy
near Rheims, then a hermit for forty years on a hill
near the city, confessor, wonderworker (c. 620)
Saint Martin of Arades, a monk at Corbie Abbey in France (726)
Saint Conrad of Constance, Bishop of Constance in Germany,
went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land three times (975)
Saint Vacz, a hermit in Visegrád in the mountains of Pilis
in Hungary (11th century)
Venerables Athanasius and Theodosius of Cherepovets,
disciples of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1388)
Saint Innocent of Irkutsk, first bishop of Irkutsk,
Apostle to Siberia and Wonderworker (1731)
Martyr George of Chios (1807)
New Hieromartyrs John Vinogradov, George Kolokolov
and Nicholas Postnikov, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Nazarius, Basil Agafonnikov, Basil Kolosov,
Elijah Zachatesky, Basil Studnicyn, Daniel Meshaninov,
and Michael, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyr Tikhon (1937)
New Hieromartyr Peter (after 1937)
Dedication of the Church of St. George at Kiev (1054)
Dedication of the Church of St. George in the Kyparissia
district of Constantinople
Saint Siricius, Pope of Rome (399)
Saint Basolus (Basle), a French Benedictine monk at Verzy
near Rheims, then a hermit for forty years on a hill
near the city, confessor, wonderworker (c. 620)
Saint Martin of Arades, a monk at Corbie Abbey in France (726)
Saint Conrad of Constance, Bishop of Constance in Germany,
went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land three times (975)
Saint Vacz, a hermit in Visegrád in the mountains of Pilis
in Hungary (11th century)
disciples of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1388)
Saint Innocent of Irkutsk, first bishop of Irkutsk,
Apostle to Siberia and Wonderworker (1731)
Martyr George of Chios (1807)
and Nicholas Postnikov, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Nazarius, Basil Agafonnikov, Basil Kolosov,
Elijah Zachatesky, Basil Studnicyn, Daniel Meshaninov,
and Michael, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyr Tikhon (1937)
New Hieromartyr Peter (after 1937)
Dedication of the Church of St. George in the Kyparissia
district of Constantinople
Coptic Orthodox
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