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Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India

2024

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Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election

2023

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Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

2022

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Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.

2021

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Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.

2015

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At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.

2013

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Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.

2009

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The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.

2008

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O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

1995

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An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.

1993

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Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1991

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The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.

1990

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A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.

1989

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TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.

1986

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The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J.

1985

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The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.

1981

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A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule.

1963

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Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.

1962

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The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.

1957

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The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world's third nuclear power.

1952

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Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.

1951

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WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.

1949

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An American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crashes near Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, killing 39.

1946

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World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.

1943

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A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.

1942

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Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.

1935

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The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1932

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The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.

1929

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Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series.

1919

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Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.

1918

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U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.

1912

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Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.

1873

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The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

1863

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American Civil War: The two-day Second Battle of Corinth begins as Confederate forces under General Earl Van Dorn attack Union defenses led by General William Rosecrans around Corinth, Mississippi.

1862

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A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.

1792

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George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 as Thanksgiving Day.

1789

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The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the Russian–Turkish War.

1739

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The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.

1712

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Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu.

1683

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The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.

1574

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Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.

1392

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Dafydd ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales, is hanged, drawn and quartered by the English.

1283

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A fleet of the Heraclian revolt under Heraclius the Younger reaches Constantinople.

610

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Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans.

382

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Liberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight to a draw Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius in the first part of the Battle of Philippi, where Cassius commits suicide believing the battle is lost.

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Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.

-52

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Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day.

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