Thursday, November 24, 2016

26 November - History and Importance of the Day

World Anti-Obesity Day


43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony was formed.


1789 - 1st national Thanksgiving



1867 - Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit

1924 - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1942 Film Casablanca released in USA - Allied Expeditionary forces secured firm hold in North Africa in November 1942.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov26.html
1948 - 1st polaroid camera sold for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store.
1949 - Free India adopted the new constitution
1983 - Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
2008 - Mumbai was attacked by terrorists. Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists killed 164 and injured more than 250 people in Mumbai, India




Birthday

1876 - Willis Carrier, American engineer, developed modern air conditioning.
1898 - Karl Ziegler, German Empire, Chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (polymers), (d. 1973)







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Terrorist Attack on Mumbai


26/11/2008
Mumbai was attacked by terrorists
Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists killed 164 and injured more than 250 people in Mumbai, India


News coverage on 26/11/2011
Recall 60 hours of terror
http://news.in.msn.com/gallery/photoviewer.aspx?cp-documentid=3426002

Silent prayers of Bollywood
http://news.in.msn.com/gallery/photoviewer.aspx?cp-documentid=5625984


27 November - History and Importance of the Day

25 November - History and Importance of the Day

History and Importance of the Day - Index of the Year


26 November - History of Discoveries and Inventions

26 November - History of India


Updated  27 November 2016, 26 November 2015

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