Wikipedia:Main Page history/2021 November 26

Doreen Nabwire

• ... that in 2009, Doreen Nabwire (pictured) became the first Kenyan woman to play professional football in Europe?
• ... that Charles Larson's The Emergence of African Fiction was an early attempt to get to an "African aesthetic", but in the eyes of critics fell short and implicitly employed European standards?
• ... that Alatchakra: Circle of Desire was the first three-dimensional Bangladeshi film?
• ... that the 1856 Cello Sonata by Charles-Valentin Alkan has been described as "anticipating Gustav Mahler's juxtaposition of the sublime and the trivial"?
• ... that Pamela McCorduck, who chronicled the evolution of artificial intelligence, regretted not recognizing the technology's potential for misuse?
• ... that the practice of whaling in the Faroe Islands dates back to the early days of Norse settlement during the Viking Era?
• ... that with eight nominations, Peter Hylenski has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Sound Design more often than anyone else – but only won once?
• ... that one critic opined that "it's hard to fall for Falling for Figaro"?

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

Main Building of the University of Notre Dame

• 1842 – The University of Notre Dame (main building pictured) was founded by Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross as an all-male institution in the U.S. state of Indiana.
• 1852 – A massive earthquake struck the Dutch East Indies, creating a tsunami that caused major damage, washing away many villages, ships and residents.
• 1983 – Six robbers broke into a Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport in London and stole £26 million in gold, diamonds and cash.
• 2011 – U.S.-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani security forces at two Pakistani military checkposts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in a friendly fire incident.