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Famous Pioneer Born on 11/26
Born under Sagittarius (♐ Sagittarius), possessing unique vision and inspiration.
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
—— Sagittarius Pioneer
The Scream
The Scream is a world-class museum collection item preserved at National Museum Oslo.
Edvard Munch (Tempera and crayon)
Historical Milestone of 11/26
On this day in history (11/26), significant global milestones and breakthroughs were recorded across science, culture, and human society.
A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted a broadcast of Southern Television in South East England.
The Southern Television broadcast interruption was a broadcast signal intrusion, or pirate broadcast, that occurred on 26 November 1977 in parts of southern England in the United Kingdom. The audio of a Southern Television broadcast was replaced by a voice claiming to represent the "Ashtar Galactic Command", delivering a message instructing humanity to abandon its weapons and live in peace with one another so it could participate in a "future awakening" and "achieve a higher state of evolution". After five and a half minutes, the broadcast returned to its scheduled programme, the 1947 Looney Tunes cartoon Goofy Gophers.
Six robbers broke into a Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport in London and stole £26 million in gold, diamonds and cash.
The Brink's Company is an American cash handling company, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. Its operations include cash-in-transit, ATM replenishment & maintenance, and cash management & payment services, such as vault outsourcing, money processing, intelligent safe services, and international transportation of valuables.
Jaycee_Horn Born
Jaycee Carrington Horn is an American professional football cornerback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks and was selected eighth overall by the Panthers in the 2021 NFL draft. His father, Joe Horn, played wide receiver in the NFL.
「Jaycee Carrington Horn is an American professional football cornerback for the Caroli...」
—— Jaycee_Horn
Olivia_O'Brien Born
Olivia Gail O'Brien is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is best known for her guest appearance on Gnash's 2016 single "I Hate U, I Love U", which peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its success led her to sign with Island Records; the label released two extended plays, three mixtapes, and her debut studio album Was It Even Real? (2019). In 2024, she formed the independent label Girlhood Records and released the EPs Love & Limerence and Everywhere I Go, There I Am. O'Brien signed with Gamma for the release of her second studio album Pixie (2026).
「Olivia Gail O'Brien is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is best known...」
—— Olivia_O'Brien
Lamecha_Girma Born
Lamecha Girma is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner who holds the world record in the 3,000 metres steeplechase. He is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medallist in the steeplechase and won silver medals at the 2019, 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships. Girma is also the former world record holder for the indoor 3,000 metres and won the silver medal at that distance at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. He is the Ethiopian national record holder for the 1500m.
「Lamecha Girma is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner who holds the world re...」
—— Lamecha_Girma
Pau_Víctor Born
Pau Víctor Delgado is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for Primeira Liga club Braga.
「Pau Víctor Delgado is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward or win...」
—— Pau_Víctor
A coordinated group of shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai began, ultimately killing 175 people and wounding more than 300 others.
The 2008 Mumbai attacks, colloquially known as 26/11, were a coordinated series of twelve Islamic terrorist attacks carried out in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, from 26 to 29 November 2008, by ten members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. A total of 175 people died, including nine of the attackers, and more than 300 were injured.
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.
In military terminology, friendly fire or fratricide is an unintentional attack by allied or neutral forces on friendly troops while attempting to attack enemy or hostile targets. Many NATO militaries refer to these incidents as blue on blue. Examples include misidentifying the target as hostile, cross-fire while engaging an enemy, and long-range ranging errors or inaccuracy. Accidental fire not intended to attack enemy or hostile targets, or deliberate firing on one's own troops for disciplinary reasons, is not called friendly fire, and neither is unintentional harm to civilian or neutral targets, which is sometimes referred to as collateral damage. Training accidents and bloodless incidents also do not qualify as friendly fire in terms of casualty reporting.
NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory mission from Cape Canaveral, carrying the Curiosity rover on board.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program, as well as research in aeronautics and space. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., NASA operates ten field centers across the US and is organized into three mission directorates: Human Spaceflight, Research and Technology, and Science. Established in 1958 amid the Space Race, NASA succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the US space program a distinct civilian orientation focused on peaceful applications. Since then, it has led most American spaceflight programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the Apollo program, Skylab, the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station (ISS), and the ongoing multi-national Artemis program.
The Wang Fuk Court fire, a catastrophic fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong, leaves at least 168 dead and 79 injured.
On 26 November 2025, a large fire broke out at the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex in Tai Po District, New Territories, Hong Kong, and burned for 44 hours and 18 minutes. Seven out of the eight blocks of the complex were consumed by the fire. The incident killed 168 people, including one firefighter, and injured 79. Most casualties were found inside their apartments. It was the first five-alarm fire in Hong Kong since the 2008 Cornwall Court fire, which resulted in 4 deaths and 55 injuries, and the deadliest fire accident in Hong Kong since the 1948 Wing On warehouse fire, which resulted in 176 deaths.
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