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November 26: Feast day of Saint Sylvester Gozzolini (Catholicism); Constitution Day in India (1949)

Bombardment of Salé

1835 – Texas Revolution: Texian forces attacked a Mexican pack train, capturing 40 saddlebags of grass.
1851 – The French navy bombarded Salé, Morocco (pictured), damaging the city's infrastructure and its Great Mosque.
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 – 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.
2008 – A coordinated group of shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai began, ultimately killing at least 174 people and wounding more than 300 others.

Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (b. 1678)
Major Taylor (b. 1878)
Fatima Massaquoi (d. 1978)
Stephen Hillenburg (d. 2018)

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Straw

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Jack Straw makes an unannounced visit to Iraq
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In the larger scheme of things, so what? This is the type of detail is what the

mav

Move the Chosin date back to 27th

The Chinese attack on Chosin did not start until the night of 27th, per Roy Appleman's work on Escaping the Trap: The US Army X Corps in Northeast Korea, 1950. This should be corrected. Jim101 (talk) 05:05, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I move the entry back because the

Battle of Ch'ongch'on River started on 26th. Jim101 (talk) 17:50, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply

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Mumbai attacks

@Deb: Do you think we should be mentioning it both in the events section and the deaths section? I was about to remove it from the deaths section but wanted your thoughts. Kees08 (Talk) 07:57, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No, I don't. We could name the notable dead in the entry for the event but I expect we will end up with people re-adding it under the deaths (and vice versa). But I would support the idea of removing it from Deaths.Deb (talk) 09:00, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]