November 26: Feast day of Sylvester Gozzolini and John Berchmans (Roman Catholic Church); Constitution Day in India (1949); Thanksgiving in the United States (2015)
Film poster for Casablanca
- 1161 – A Song dynasty fleet defeated a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
- 1805 – The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the longest and highest aqueduct in Great Britain, opened.
- 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
- 1942 – The film Casablanca (poster pictured), starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City to coincide with the Allied invasion of North Africa and the capture of Casablanca.
- 2011 – NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory mission from Cape Canaveral, with the Curiosity rover aboard.
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