Historical Events -  November 26

1863 : US President Abraham Lincoln declared November 26 as Thanksgiving Day.

1885 – Meteorite photographed for the first time.

1932 – The great cricketer Don Bradman completed ten thousand runs in first-class cricket.

1941    – Lebanon became independent.

1949 : The Indian constitution presented by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was approved.

1960 – STD service started between Kanpur and Lucknow for the first time in India.

1965 : Asterix (A-1), France’s first satellite, was launched into space from Algeria.

1982 : The 9th Asian Games held in Delhi.

1997 : An Indian scientist, Technician Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was awarded the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honor.

2008 : Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-sponsored militant group, launched a terrorist attack in Mumbai. This incident is known as 26/11.

 

Famous Birthdays   – November 26  

1885: Debendra Mohan Bose, an Indian physicist.

1890: Suniti Kumar Chatterji, an Indian linguist, educationist, and litterateur.

1890: Tukojirao Holakar III, the Maharaja of Indore.

1898: Karl Ziegler, a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

1902: Maurice McDonald, co-founder of McDonald’s.

1919: R. S. Sharma, an eminent historian.

1921: Verghese Kurien, the founder of Amul, was known as the “Father of the White Revolution” in India.

1922: Charles Schulz, an American cartoonist.

1926: Yash Pal, an Indian scientist, educator, and educationist. 

1952: Munawwar Rana, an Indian modern Urdu poet.

1954: Velupillai Prabhakaran, a Tamil guerrilla freedom fighter.

1961: Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, a British Indian entrepreneur.

1983: Chris Hughes, an American entrepreneur, and co-founder of Facebook. 

 

Death Anniversaries  – November 26

1883: Sojourner Truth, an American abolitionist, and women’s rights activist.

1926: John Moses Browning, an American firearms designer.

1938: Maulana Shaukat Ali, an Indian Muslim leader of the Khilafat Movement.

2008: Hemant Karkare, Vijay Salaskar, Ashok Kamate, and 17 other police personnel were killed in a terrorist attack in Mumbai.

2012: MC Nambudipadi, an Indian writer, and translator.

2012: Joseph Edward Murray, an American plastic surgeon who performed the first successful human kidney transplant.

2016: Ivan Mikoyan, co-designer and designer of the Russian MiG-29 aircraft.

2018: Stephen Hillenburg, an American animator, and marine science educator.