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.
1778 - In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).
1918 - The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
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.
1949 - The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India's constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
1950 - Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counter-attack 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.
1970 - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Parliament Republic of Ireland.
2003 - Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
2011 - 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
Famous Birthdays:
1436 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, daughter of King Edward of Portugal and his wife Eleanor of Aragon.
1678 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist
1858 - St. Katharine Drexel, Catholic Saint
1869 - Maud, Queen of Norway
1895 - William Griffith "Bill" Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
1918 - Patricio Aylwin, former President of Chile
1949 - Martin Lee, singer
1973 - Kristin Bauer van Straten, actress
1983 - Chris Hughes, businessman, co-founder of Facebook
1990 - Rita Ora, singer
1992 - Louis Ducruet, son of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, 7th in the line to the Monegasque throne
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