26 November
Notable Births
Lamecha Girma
b. 2000
Ethiopian athlete (born 2000)
Jaycee Horn
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Olivia O'Brien
b. 1999
American singer
Jacob Shaffelburg
b. 1999
Canadian soccer player (born 1999)
Aubrey Joseph
b. 1997
American actor (born 1997)
Jennie Wåhlin
b. 1997
Swedish curler
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
b. 1997
DR Congolese footballer (born 1997)
Malik Beasley
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Brandon Carlo
b. 1996
American ice hockey player (born 1996)
Louane (singer)
b. 1996
French actress and singer
James Guy (swimmer)
b. 1995
British swimmer (born 1995)
Anuel AA
b. 1992
Puerto Rican rapper and singer (born 1992)
Manolo Gabbiadini
b. 1991
Italian footballer
Corey Knebel
b. 1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Avery Bradley
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Chip (rapper)
b. 1990
British rapper (born 1990)
Gabriel Paulista
b. 1990
Brazilian footballer (born 1990)
Rita Ora
b. 1990
British singer-songwriter (born 1990)
Danny Welbeck
b. 1990
English footballer (born 1990)
Tina Turner
b. 1939
Singer-songwriter and actress (1939–2023)
Notable Deaths
Jim Abrahams
d. 2024
American film director and writer (1944–2024)
Vikram Gokhale
d. 2022
Indian actor (1945–2022)
Stephen Sondheim
d. 2021
American composer and lyricist (1930–2021)
Stephen Hillenburg
d. 2018
American animator and educator (1961–2018)
Fritz Weaver
d. 2016
American actor (1926–2016)
Amir Aczel
d. 2015
Israeli-born American lecturer (1950–2015)
Guy Lewis
d. 2015
American basketball player and coach (1922–2015)
Mary Hinkson
d. 2014
American dancer
Gilles Tremblay (ice hockey)
d. 2014
Canadian ice hockey player
Peter Underwood (parapsychologist)
d. 2014
British parapsychologist (1923–2014)
Arik Einstein
d. 2013
Israeli musical artist
Jane Kean
d. 2013
American actress (1923–2013)
Saul Leiter
d. 2013
American photographer and painter (1923–2013)
Tony Musante
d. 2013
American actor (1936–2013)
Celso Ad. Castillo
d. 2012
Filipino film director and screenwriter
Joseph E. Murray
d. 2012
American plastic surgeon (1919–2012)
M. C. Nambudiripad
d. 2012
Indian popular science writer and translator
Manon Cleary
d. 2011
American painter
Silvestre S. Herrera
d. 2007
WWII US Army Pfc Medal of Honor France 1945 Mexican-American
Herb McKenley
d. 2007
Jamaican sprinter
On This Day in History
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2025
The Wang Fuk Court fire, a catastrophic fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong, leaves at least 168 dead and 79 injured.
Wang Fuk Court fire
2021
COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization identifies the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
COVID-19 pandemic
2019
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes western Albania leaving at least 52 people dead and over 1,000 injured. This was the world's deadliest earthquake of 2019, and the deadliest to strike the country in 99 years.
2019 Albania earthquake
2018
The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
Uncrewed spacecraft
2011
NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani check post in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
2011 NATO attack in Pakistan
2011
The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.
Mars Science Laboratory
2008
Mumbai attacks, a series of terrorist attacks killing approximately 175 citizens by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based extremist Islamist terrorist organisation.
2008 Mumbai attacks
2008
The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, now out of service, docks in Dubai.
Queen Elizabeth 2
2004
Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
List of mass stabbing incidents (before 2010)
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.
Poʻouli
2003
The Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
Concorde
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.
George W. Bush
1999
The 7.5 Mw Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.
1999 Ambrym earthquake
1998
Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
Tony Blair
1998
The Khanna rail disaster takes 212 lives in Khanna, Ludhiana, India.
1998 Khanna rail collision
1991
National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities with Azeri names.
National Assembly (Azerbaijan)
1986
Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
Iran–Contra affair
1986
The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
John Demjanjuk
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.
Brink's-Mat robbery
1979
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 740 crashes near Taif in Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia, killing all 156 people on board.
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 740