#HISTORYOFTHEDAY_26 NOV

25-November HIstory

25-November-1538           Turkish Armada retired.The arrival of a new Portuguese fleet.

25-November-1866           Allahabad court was established for Uttar Pradesh territory, it sat in Agra with five Judges between 1866 and 1868. It also has a bench in Lucknow.

25-November-1863 – United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. 

25-November-1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer, invented air conditioning

25-November-1898 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate.

25-November-1902 – Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (d. 1971)

25-November-1879           Sri  Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement.

25-November-1890           Radheshyam, famous stage, film actor and director, was born.

25-November-1948           National Cadet Corps was first established.

25-November-1956           Lal Bahadur Shastri, Railway Minister, resigns from the office or Railway Minitery, taking moral responsibility for Ayyapan rail disaster thus setting a rare example for politicians.

25-November-1962           Dasganu (Ganesh Dattatreya Sahastrabuddhe), modern Marathi saint and poet, passed away.

25-November-1975           Chandulal Shah, film maker, passed away.

25-November-1977           John Lobo became the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 30/06/79).

25-November-1984           Yashwantrao B. Chavhan, first Chief Minister of Maharashtra and former Deputy Prime Minister, passed away.

25-November-1942 – Casablanca, the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City

25-November-1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.

25-November-1942 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.

25-November-1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in London, United Kingdom, killing 168 people.

25-November-1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.

25-November-1949 – The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.

25-November-1987           India all out for 75 vs West Indies at Delhi. Patterson took 5-24.

25-November-1990           Sri Lanka all out at 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off 17.5 overs.

25-November-1990           R. V. S. Perishastri, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, passed away.

25-November-1992           Mamata Banerjee, Union Minister of State for Sports, resigns to fight Bengal CPM.

25-November-1993           National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, celebrated its platinum jubilee in 1993 by organizing several scientific activities throughout the year, culminating in the International Symposium on Nutrition during November 25-27, 1993.

25-November-1995           Namibian PM Hoge S. Geingob arrives in New Delhi.

25-November-1995           The four-states of Gujarat, Goa, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh proposes trade bloc for western States (Western Regional Cooperation).

25-November-1998           Nitish Kumar, Railway Minister, lays the foundation stone for the Chengalpattu-Arakkonam gauge conversion in Kancheepuram. The Kanchi Shankaracharyas stay away from the function following a controversy triggered over the invitation extended to them by the Railways.

25-November-1999           Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is appointed Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India.

25-November-1999           Baba Amte, a Gandhian and noted social worker, is chosen for the Gandhi Peace Prize.

25-November-1999           Madras HC sets aside Tamil Nadu Governor Fathima Beevi's order rejecting the mercy petitions of four accused in Rajiv Gandhi case.

25-November-2000           Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Governments agree on a ""unified command'' for the STF operations against Veerappa

25-November-2008 – Mumbai attacks by Lashkar-e-Taiba.

25-November-2003 – The Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.

1939 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates an incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.