Events Pre-1600 2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day. 52 BC – Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia. 42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight to a draw Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius in the first part of the Battle of Philippi, where Cassius commits suicide believing the battle is lost. 382 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans. 610 – A fleet of the Heraclian revolt under Heraclius the Younger reaches Constantinople. 1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales, is hanged, drawn and quartered by the English. 1392 – Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada. 1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
1601–1900 1683 – Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu. 1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor. 1739 – The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the Russian–Turkish War. 1789 – George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 as Thanksgiving Day. 1792 – A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile. 1862 – American Civil War: The two-day Second Battle of Corinth begins as Confederate forces under General Earl Van Dorn attack Union defenses led by General William Rosecrans around Corinth, Mississippi. 1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. 1873 – Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
1901–present 1912 – U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill. 1918 – Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne. 1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series. 1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I. 1932 – The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia. 1942 – A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude. 1943 – World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece. 1946 – An American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crashes near Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, killing 39. 1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta. 1951 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops. 1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world's third nuclear power. 1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene. 1962 – Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight. 1963 – A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule. 1981 – The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths. 1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J. 1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened. 1989 – A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed. 1990 – The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day. 1991 – Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1993 – An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die. 1995 – O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. 2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush. 2009 – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council. 2013 – At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa. 2015 – Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan. 2021 – Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy. 2022 – Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 2023 – Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general electionThom, Eagleclaw Bunnie. “Wab Kinew Becomes the 1st First Nations Premier in Canada.” The Council of Canadians, 4 Oct. 2023, https://canadians.org/analysis/wab-kinew-becomes-the-1st-first-nations-premier-in-canada/. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025. 2024 – Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India 2024 – "Thick of It", a single by British Internet personality and rapper KSI featuring Trippie Redd, is released.
Births
Pre-1600 1390 – Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (died 1447) 1458 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland and Duke of Lithuania (died 1484) 1554 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (died 1628)
1601–1900 1610 – Gabriel Lalemant, French-Canadian missionary and saint (died 1649) 1631 – Sebastian Anton Scherer, German organist and composer (died 1712) 1637 – George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (died 1720) 1713 – Antoine Dauvergne, French violinist and composer (died 1797) 1716 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist and academic (died 1781) 1720 – Johann Uz, German poet and judge (died 1796) 1790 – John Ross, American tribal chief (died 1866) 1797 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1870) 1800 – George Bancroft, American historian and politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1891) 1804 – Townsend Harris, American merchant, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (died 1878) 1804 – Allan Kardec, French author, translator, educator and founder of modern Spiritism (died 1869) 1828 – Woldemar Bargiel, German composer and educator (died 1897) 1837 – Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentinian journalist and politician, 8th President of Argentina (died 1885) 1846 – James Jackson Putnam, American neurologist and academic (died 1918) 1848 – Henry Lerolle, French painter and art collector (died 1929) 1858 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (died 1924) 1862 – Alice B. Woodward, British illustrator for children and scientists (died 1931) 1862 – Johnny Briggs, English cricketer and rugby player (died 1902) 1863 – Pyotr Kozlov, Russian archaeologist and explorer (died 1935) 1865 – Gustave Loiseau, French painter (died 1935) 1866 – Josephine Sabel, American singer and comedian (died 1945) 1867 – Joseph Beech, American Methodist missionary and educator (died 1954) 1867 – Pierre Bonnard, French painter (died 1947) 1869 – Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (died 1942) 1875 – Dr. Atl, Mexican painter (died 1964) 1879 – Warner Oland, Swedish-American actor and singer (died 1938) 1880 – Nora Bayes, American singer, entertainer, and actress (died 1928) 1882 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter and academic (died 1974) 1885 – Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (died 1970) 1886 – Alain-Fournier, French soldier, author, and critic (died 1914) 1888 – Wade Boteler, American actor and screenwriter (died 1943) 1889 – Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1938) 1890 – Emilio Portes Gil, Mexican politician, President of Mexico (died 1978) 1894 – Elmer Robinson, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Mayor of San Francisco (died 1982) 1894 – Walter Warlimont, German general (died 1976) 1895 – Giovanni Comisso, Italian author and poet (died 1969) 1895 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (died 1925) 1896 – Auvergne Doherty, Australian businesswoman (died 1961) 1896 – Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and critic (died 1987) 1897 – Louis Aragon, French author and poet (died 1982) 1898 – Leo McCarey, American director and screenwriter (died 1969) 1898 – Adolf Reichwein, German economist and educator (died 1944) 1899 – Gertrude Berg, American actress, screenwriter and producer (died 1966) 1900 – Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (died 1938)
1901–present 1901 – Jean Grémillon, French director, composer, and screenwriter (died 1959) 1904 – Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (died 1998) 1905 – Tekin Arıburun, Turkish soldier and politician, President of Turkey (died 1993) 1906 – Natalie Savage Carlson, American author (died 1997) 1908 – Johnny Burke, American songwriter (died 1964) 1911 – Michael Hordern, English actor (died 1995) 1912 – Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax, British peer, Conservative politician (died 1980) 1915 – Ray Stark, American film producer (died 2004) 1916 – James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (died 1995) 1919 – James M. Buchanan, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013) 1921 – Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1996) 1923 – Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Dominica (died 2004) 1924 – Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist (died 1993) 1924 – Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter and coach (died 2012) 1925 – Simone Segouin (also known as Nicole Minet), French Resistance fighter and partisan (died 2023) 1925 – Gore Vidal, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (died 2012) 1925 – George Wein, American pianist and producer, co-founded the Newport Folk Festival (died 2021) 1926 – Gerardo P. Cabochan, Filipino politician (died 2014) 1928 – Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer (died 1986) 1928 – Shridath Ramphal, Guyanese academic and politician, 2nd Commonwealth Secretary-General (died 2024) 1931 – Glenn Hall, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2026) 1931 – Bob Skinner, American baseball player (died 2026) 1933 – Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player (died 2024) 1934 – Benjamin Boretz, American composer and theorist 1934 – Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Colombian-Dutch painter and illustrator (died 2015) 1934 – Harold Henning, South African golfer (died 2004) 1934 – Simon Nicholson, English sculptor and painter (died 1990) 1935 – Charles Duke, American general, pilot, and astronaut 1935 – Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Soviet Russian-Armenian actor (died 2020) 1936 – Steve Reich, American composer 1938 – Eddie Cochran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 1960) 1938 – David Hart Dyke, English captain 1938 – Jack Hodgins, Canadian author and academic 1938 – Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Peruvian entrepreneur and politician, 66th President of Peru 1939 – Bob Armstrong, American wrestler and trainer (died 2020) 1940 – Alan O'Day, American singer-songwriter (died 2013) 1940 – Jean Ratelle, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1940 – Mike Troy, American swimmer (died 2019) 1941 – Chubby Checker, American singer-songwriter 1941 – Andrea de Adamich, Italian racing driver and sportscaster (died 2025) 1941 – John Elliott, Australian businessman (died 2021) 1941 – Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca, Romanian historian and philologist (died 2017) 1942 – Alan Rachins, American actor (died 2024) 1943 – Jeff Bingaman, American soldier and politician, 25th Attorney General of New Mexico 1943 – Baki İlkin, Turkish civil servant and diplomat 1944 – Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician and academic 1944 – Bob Riley, American politician, 52nd Governor of AlabamaBob Riley for Governor 1945 – Tony Brown, English footballer and sportscaster 1945 – Christopher Bruce, English dancer and choreographer