{"id":23277,"date":"2023-11-26T04:52:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T23:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23277"},"modified":"2023-11-24T15:26:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T09:56:42","slug":"history-of-26-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-26-november\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 26 November"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1990 &#8211; Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz at the Kremlin to demand that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait.<\/li>\r\n<li>1990 &#8211; Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. agreed to acquire MCA Inc. for $6.6 billion.<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 &#8211; The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income. She also took her children off the public payroll.<\/li>\r\n<li>1995 &#8211; Two men set fire to a subway token booth in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The clerk inside was fatally burned.<\/li>\r\n<li>1997 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and North Korea held high-level discussions at the State Department for the first time.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a speech to the Irish Parliament. It was a first time event for a British Prime Minister.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; Hulk Hogan announced that he was retiring from pro wrestling and would run for president in 2000.<\/li>\r\n<li>2003 &#8211; The U.N. atomic agency adopted a resolution that censured Iran for past nuclear cover-ups and warning that it would be policed to put to rest suspicions that the country had a weapons agenda.<\/li>\r\n<li>2011 &#8211; The Mars Science Laboratory\/Curiosity spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. The Mars rover Curiosity landed on the floor of Gale Crater on August 6, 2012.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>2018\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0robotic probe\u00a0Insight\u00a0lands on\u00a0Elysium Planitia,\u00a0Mars.<\/li>\r\n<li>2019\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0magnitude 6.4 earthquake\u00a0strikes western Albania leaving at least 52 people dead and over 1000 injured. This was the deadliest earthquake of 2019, and the deadliest to strike the country in 99 years.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Stephan Andersen, Danish footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Natasha Bedingfield, English singer-songwriter and producer<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Natalie Gauci, Australian singer and pianist<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Gina Kingsbury, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Jon Ryan, Canadian football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Keith Ballard, American ice hockey player<\/li>\r\n<li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chris Hughes, American publisher and businessman, co-founded\u00a0Facebook<\/li>\r\n<li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Emiri Kat\u014d, Japanese voice actress and singer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)<\/li>\r\n<li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Matt Carpenter, American baseball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Konstadinos Filippidis, Greek pole vaulter<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Bauke Mollema, Dutch cyclist<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Alberto Sgarbi, Italian rugby player<\/li>\r\n<li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Georgios Tzavellas, Greek footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Blake Harnage, American singer-songwriter and guitarist<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese model and actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Junior Stanislas, English footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Angeline Quinto, Filipina singer and actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Avery Bradley, American basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Chip, English rapper<\/li>\r\n<li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Rita Ora, Kosovan-English singer-songwriter and actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Danny Welbeck, English footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Manolo Gabbiadini, Italian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1995\u00a0\u2013\u00a0James Guy, English swimmer<\/li>\r\n<li>1999\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Olivia O&#8217;Brien, American singer-songwriter<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/November_26#cite_note-8\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1990 &#8211; Soviet President Mikhail S. 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