A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.
November 26: Day of the Week
November 26, 2024 is the 331st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 35 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.
Holy Toledo! Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Let’s give it a quick spin. Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters CERVQIFIAUL? Check your answers here: Make words with these letters CERVQIFIAUL. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
Are you not curious to discover some fun facts about your birthday? Find out ‘what happened on my birthday’ and what was the number one song on your day of birth. Know the meaning of your special day and who shares your birthday! (Sponsored link)
Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
November 26 Historical Event(s)
783
The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
1805
Official opening of Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
1913
Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
1918
The Podgorica Assembly votes for “union of the people”, declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
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).
1939
Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates the incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.
1943
World War II: HMT Rohna sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
1944
World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth’s shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.
1970
In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
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?
1703
Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
1832
Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)
1907
Ruth Patrick, American botanist
1915
Earl Wild, American pianist (d. 2010)
1923
Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
1938
Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
1948
Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (d. 1995)
1961
Marcy Walker, American actress
1980
Jason Anthony Griffith, American video game voice actor
1984
Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
Now try another date like anniversaries, birthdays of someone you know or any other date that is special to you. Don’t forget to share the info to your friends, loved ones or social media followers. Who knows, they might appreciate and thank you for it.
Holy Toledo! Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Let’s give it a quick spin. Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters CERVQIFIAUL? Check your answers here: Make words with these letters CERVQIFIAUL. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
Are you not curious to discover some fun facts about your birthday? Find out ‘what happened on my birthday’ and what was the number one song on your day of birth. Know the meaning of your special day and who shares your birthday! (Sponsored link)
Now try another date like anniversaries, birthdays of someone you know or any other date that is special to you. Don’t forget to share the info to your friends, loved ones or social media followers. Who knows, they might appreciate and thank you for it.