What are the important events that happened on November 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 26: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 26 is the 330^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 35 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 13, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,764,115,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontagon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 83 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,723 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 26 Historical Events

• 1476 –
  Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
• 1789 –
  A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
• 1805 –
  Official opening of Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
• 1909 –
  Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
• 1913 –
  Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
• 1922 –
  Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between is the first film to do so but it is not widely distributed).
• 1944 –
  World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
• 1950 –
  Korean War: Troops from the People’s Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
• 1986 –
  Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
• 2004 –
  Male Po'ouli (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.

Who were born on November 26?

• 1657 –
  William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
• 1828 –
  René Goblet, French politician (d. 1905)
• 1832 –
  Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)
• 1853 –
  Bat Masterson, American Old West figure (d. 1921)
• 1898 –
  Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• 1933 –
  Robert Goulet, American singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1940 –
  Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (d. 2007)
• 1969 –
  Shawn Kemp, American basketball player
• 1972 –
  Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
• 1973 –
  Kristin Bauer, American actress

Who died on November 26?

• 1688 –
  Philippe Quinault, French writer (b. 1635)
• 1717 –
  Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
• 1719 –
  John Hudson, British classical scholar (b. 1662)
• 1836 –
  John MacAdam, British road builder (b. 1756)
• 1885 –
  Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (b. 1813)
• 1926 –
  John Browning, American firearm designer and inventor (b. 1855)
• 1938 –
  Flora Call Disney, mother of Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney (b. 1868)
• 1956 –
  Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (b. 1905)
• 1977 –
  Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (b. 1920)
• 2008 –
  De'Angelo Wilson, American actor (b. 1979)