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26 November 2028
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Holidays
No listed India public holiday for this date.
Observances
No UN observance in the current list for this date.
Selected anniversaries
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Historical events
History
2025 - The Wang Fuk Court fire, a catastrophic fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong, leaves at least 168 dead and 79 injured.2025 apartment fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong
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2021 - COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization identifies the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.Pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2
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2019 - A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes western Albania leaving at least 52 people dead and over 1,000 injured. This was the world's deadliest earthquake of 2019, and the deadliest to strike the country in 99 years.Earthquake in Northwestern Albania
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2018 - The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.Spacecraft without people on board
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2011 - NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani check post in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmish
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2011 - The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.Robotic mission that deployed the ''Curiosity'' rover to Mars in 2012
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2008 - Mumbai attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks took place in Mumbai killing 166 citizens by 10 terrorists of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based extremist Islamist terrorist organisation.Islamist terror attacks in India
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2008 - The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, now out of service, docks in Dubai.Former British ocean liner
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2004 - Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.History
2004 - The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.Extinct species of passerine bird
Notable births
Born
1999 - Jaycee Horn, American football playerAmerican football player (born 1999)
Born
1999 - Jacob Shaffelburg, Canadian soccer playerCanadian soccer player (born 1999)
Born
1999 - Jung Wooyoung, South Korean singer and dancerSouth Korean singer (born 1999)
Notable deaths
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Sky
Moon phase
Waxing Gibbous
70.0% illuminated
Lunar age: 9.3 days
Sun zodiac
Sagittarius
4.76 degrees
Constellation: Scorpius
Moon zodiac
Aries
1.82 degrees
Constellation: Pisces
Astronomy events
No major astronomy event in the current calendar for this date.