📜 This Day in History

November 26

• 1835Texas Revolution: Texian forces attacked a Mexican pack train, capturing 40 saddlebags of grass.
• 1852A massive earthquake struck the Dutch East Indies, creating a tsunami that washed away villages, ships and residents.
• 1939The 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.
• 1942World 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.
• 1983Six robbers broke into a Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport in London and stole £26 million in gold, diamonds and cash.
• 2011NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory mission from Cape Canaveral, carrying the Curiosity rover on board.

Born on this day

• 1857Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and author (died 1913)
• 1909Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright and critic (died 1994)
• 1939Tina Turner, American-Swiss singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (died 2023)
• 1948Elizabeth Blackburn, Australian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate