In 1885 a meteorite is photographed for the first time and in 1922 the British archaeologist Howard Carter enters the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
Today, November 26, 2022
1703…. Torrential rains in London. The Thames floods, killing 8,000 people.
1812… The Battle of Berezina begins in Russia, which will last until November 29 and will end in the complete defeat of Napoleon’s French invaders.
1826…. The French colonel Favieros liberates Athens.
1850… With its resolution, the House of Representatives of the Ionian Islands, interpreting the will of the People, requests the Union of the Ionian Islands with Greece.
1862… Charles Ludwig Dodgson, known as Lewis Carroll, sends 10-year-old Alice Lindell a manuscript of his entitled ‘Alice in Wonderland’ as a Christmas present.
1885…. For the first time a meteorite is photographed.
1922…. British archaeologist Howard Carter enters the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.
1928… Special courts for minors are established in Greece.
1940… Nazi Germany begins the construction of a wall around the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, with the aim of trapping 400,000 inhabitants.
1941… Lebanon declares its independence, after 20 years of French occupation.
…. On the same day, US President Franklin Roosevelt establishes the fourth Thursday of November as “Thanksgiving Day” in the US.
1942… Michael Curtiz’s legendary film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, opens in cinemas
1943… World War II: German troops execute 118 Greek hostages in Monodendri, Laconia. Among those executed is the doctor Christos Karvounis, who did not agree to leave, as the Germans suggested (he had studied in Germany), but placed himself in front of the execution squad.
1944…. Heinrich Himmler orders the destruction of the crematoria at Auschwitz and Birkenau, where thousands of Jews died.
1949…. India is declared an autonomous and sovereign democratic country with a new Constitution.
1955… Great Britain declares Cyprus in a state of emergency, due to the action of EOKA.
1963… Prime Minister George Papandreou announces the implementation of the Free Education measure at all levels of education.
1979… The International Olympic Committee accepts China again after an absence of 21 years.
…. On the same day in Venezuela, an oil deposit equivalent to the total reserves of the OPEC member countries is found.
1983….$40 million worth of gold bars fly out of London’s Heathrow Airport.
1985…. “17 N”, in retaliation for the murder of the 15-year-old Kaltezas by the policeman Melista, attacks with a bomb a MAT cage near the Hilton, as a result of which the policeman Ioannis Georgakopoulos is killed and fourteen are injured.
1993… The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and 35 other Kurdish or pro-Kurdish organizations are outlawed in Germany.
1995… In Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze is sworn in as president, winning the election with 75% of the vote.
1998… Tony Blair becomes the first UK Prime Minister to address the Republic of Ireland government.
1999…. Pyrros Dimas wins the gold medal in deadlift with 182.5 kg, setting a world record, the bronze in deadlift and the silver overall with 387.5 kg in the 85 kg category of the world weightlifting championship, which takes place at the Peace and Friendship Stadium. In the same category, Christos Spyrou wins a silver medal in the jet.
2008… The number of dead and 370 injured from terrorist attacks in Mumbai rises to 185. There has been a triple bomb attack in busy parts of the Indian metropolis.
On this day in 1607, John Harvard, the saint and founder of the American university of the same name, was born, in 1857 the Swiss linguist and founder of semiotics, Ferdinand de Saussure, in 1876 the American engineer, inventor of air conditioning, Willis Haviland Carrier, in 1909 the French-Romanian playwright, presenter of the Theater of the Absurd, Evgenios Ionesco (“The Bald Singer”), in 1927 the director, screenwriter and writer, Nikos Foskolos and in 1938 the American singer, Tina Turner.
On the same day in 1504, the queen of Spain, Isabella, died and in 1957, the highest officer of the Navy, politician and prime minister, Petros Voulgaris.
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