WHAT HAPPENED ON 26. NOVEMBER
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The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus. (26. November 783)

Battle of Caishi: A Song Dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin Dynasty ships on the Yangtze River during the Jin-Song wars. (26. November 1161)

Vlad the Impaler (Dracula) defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time. (26. November 1476)

The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die. (26. November 1703)

In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui. (26. November 1778)

The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established. (26. November 1784)

A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress. (26. November 1789)

Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. (26. November 1805)

At Union College in Schenectady, New York, a group of college students form the Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity. (26. November 1825)

The University of Notre Dame is founded. (26. November 1842)

United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. (Since 1941, it has been on the fourth Thursday.) (26. November 1863)

Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaiso, Chile. (26. November 1865)

The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams. (26. November 1917)

The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia. (26. November 1918)

Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. (26. November 1922)

Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.) (26. November 1922)

Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates an incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later. (26. November 1939)

World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia. (26. November 1942)

World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria. (26. November 1943)

World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop on New Cross High Street in London, United Kingdom, killing 168 people. (26. November 1944)