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On This Day In History for November 26, 2025
This is the 330th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 35 days remaining in 2025.
- It was on this date in 1778, that In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook became the first European to visit Maui.
- 236 years ago today, A national Thanksgiving Day was observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.
- Also on November 26, 1805, Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct was officially opened.
- It was 103 years ago today that Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
- 60 years ago today, France launched Astérix, becoming the third nation to put an object in orbit using its own booster.
- Also today in 1970, In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 38 millimetres (1.5 in) of rain fell in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
- Also on November 26, 1983, was the Brink’s-Mat robbery. In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million were stolen from the Brink’s-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
- The Concorde made its final flight over Bristol, England on this date in 2003.
- On November 26, 2018, The robotic probe Insight landed on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
- 4 years ago today, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization identified the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- German organist and composer, Johannes Bach, born on this date in 1604.
- French geophysicist and astronomer, Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan was born 347 years ago today.
- Alsatian-French chemist Charles Adolphe Wurtz, born on this date in 1817.
- German-French physicist and academic, Rudolph Koenig was born 193 years ago today.
- Willis Carrier, the American engineer, inventor of air conditioning was born 149 years ago today.
- Ford Beebe, American director and screenwriter was born on that same date in 1888.
- American activist, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W., born on this date in 1895.
- Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1898.
- American businessman, co-founded McDonald’s, Maurice McDonald, born on this date in 1902.
- Born November 26, 1922, American cartoonist, created Peanuts Charles M. Schulz.
- Also turning 89 today is English computer scientist and psychologist Margaret Boden.
- Italian mathematician and academic, Enrico Bombieri is 85 today.
- Also born on that same date in 1949, East Timorese geographer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of East Timor, Mari Alkatiri.
- Also turning 73 today is Mexican-American science teacher and entomologist Elsa Salazar Cade.
Listener Birthdays
- Nov 26 – Joanie
- Nov 27 – Brad P. from NJ(but who was born in VA, and has moved back there…)
- Nov 28 – Ben Sweetser
- Dec 1 – Claudio Miranda (ClaudioM)
- Dec 2 – Ben Fryxell from the MacMania Podcast
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 26, 2025
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News
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- New study suggest we may have the theory of the moon all wrong
Hacks & Strange Stories
- Someone made their own smart coffee pot that runs off an ESP32
- Claude AI Successfully Controls Robot Dog in Breakthrough Test | The Tech Buzz
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