Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 26

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  Bombardment of Salé
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  Josip Broz Tito
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  Satellite view of Maui
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  James Cook
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  The gold funerary mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamun
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  Howard Carter
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  Wall decorations in KV62's burial chamber
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  Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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  Nicolae Iorga
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  Main Building of the University of Notre Dame

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
and John Berchmans	refimprove section
, and Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodox Church)	refimprove
1778 – An expedition led by James Cook reached Maui, the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands.	unreferenced section
1805 – The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the longest aqueduct in Great Britain and the highest canal aqueduct in the world, opened.	Too much uncited information
1865 – Chincha Islands War: Chilean forces defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Papudo, a naval engagement in the Pacific Ocean north of Valparaíso, Chile.	unreferenced, short
1893 – The Durand Line establishes the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.	refimprove section & uncited section
1943 – Second World War: The British troop ship Template:Ship was sunk in the Mediterranean by a Luftwaffe bomb, killing more than 1,100 people.	Article unclear of when ship sank
1970 – About Template:Nowrap (Template:Nowrap) of rain fell in one minute at Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe, the most intense rainfall in a short period recorded by modern methods.	date not cited
2004 – One of the last known male Poʻouli died in Olinda, Hawaii, before biologists could find a mate for it, making the species in all probability extinct.	refimprove section
Sojourner Truth |d|1883|	Too much uncited and cleanup required tag
Bill W. |b|1895|	Seven CN tags

Eligible

• 1842 – The University of Notre Dame (building pictured) was founded by Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross as an all-male institution in the U.S. state of Indiana.
• 1851 – The French navy bombarded Salé, Morocco (pictured), damaging the city's infrastructure and its Great Mosque.
• 1852 – A massive earthquake struck the Dutch East Indies, creating a tsunami that washed away villages, ships and residents.
• 1917 – Being unable to resolve disputes with Eddie Livingstone, owner of the Toronto Blueshirts, the other ice hockey clubs of Canada's National Hockey Association officially agreed to break away and form the National Hockey League.
• 1921 – The Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict resumes with a surprise attack by the Red Army against the Makhnovshchina.
• 1939 – The Soviet Red Army shelled the village of Mainila and then claimed that the fire originated from Finland, giving them a casus belli to launch the Winter War a few days later.
• 1942 – Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City to coincide with the Allied invasion of French North Africa and the capture of Casablanca.
• 1942 – World War II: Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans convened the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
• 1977 – A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted a broadcast of Southern Television in South East England.
• 1983 – Six robbers broke into a Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport in London and stole £26 million in gold, diamonds and cash.
• 2011 – In a friendly-fire incident, a skirmish occurred between U.S.-led NATO forces and Pakistani security forces at two military checkposts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border.
• 2011 – NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory mission from Cape Canaveral, carrying the Curiosity rover on board.
• Born/died this day: | Ralph Agas |d|1621| Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan |b|1678| Rudolph Koenig |b|1832| Maud of Wales |b|1869| Major Taylor |b|1878| Helen C. White |b|1896| Adolfo Pérez Esquivel |b|1931| Mark Margolis |b|1939| Tina Turner |b|1939| Galina Prozumenshchikova |b|1948| Fatima Massaquoi |d|1978| Rita Ora |b|1990| Stephen Hillenburg |d|2018| Bernardo Bertolucci |d|2018|

Notes

• Mask of Tutankhamun appears on October 28, so KV62 should not appear in the same year
• Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion appears on November 22, so the Southern Television one should not appear in the same year

November 26: Feast day of Saint Sylvester Gozzolini (Catholicism); Constitution Day in India (1949) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1835 – Texas Revolution: Texian forces attacked a Mexican pack train, capturing 40 saddlebags of grass.
• 1914 – A large internal explosion destroyed Template:HMS near Sheerness, killing 741 people on board.
• 1940 – The Iron Guard killed 64 political detainees at a penitentiary near Bucharest and followed up with several high-profile assassinations, including that of former Romanian prime minister Nicolae Iorga.
• 1942 – A riot involving infantrymen, military police, and local law enforcement officers killed three people in Phoenix, Arizona.
• 2008 – A coordinated group of shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai began, ultimately killing at least 174 people and wounding more than 300 others.